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CibbuanoThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
December 27th 2007 02:31
It's a magnetically compelling read... the disaster that is responsible for the downfall of society is unnamed and left to the reader's imagination. We think, nuclear bomb? Asteroid? Zombies?
No, not zombies, though McCarthy echoes the desperation of classic zombie movies. In his horrific view of the future, the survivors of the disaster fear each other, often banding together as roving packs of ghoulish cannibals. Perhaps the most frightening aspect about the book is that, unlike zombie lit, this seems like an unbearably realistic depiction of the future.
It's an Oprah Book Club selection, which might detract potential readers, but it also won the Pulitzer Prize last year, making McCarthy the juggernaut of American fiction at the moment.
The novel is also being adapted for the cinema, with production commencing this year on the film adaptation. Cinematical seems to think that Guy Pierce is going to play the lead character, which seems like a great fit to me...also, I think this novel has great promise as movie, in the right hands.
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But after I finished it, I spoke to someone else about it, and they were all like 'yeah so what, they walked, found a can of food, went to sleep, walked, found a can of food, went to sleep, etc etc how about something actually happening!!'.
I was completely cornered with that comment because they were right but it never occurred to me that someone would find it dull!!