I read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" this weekend.

[kestrel91316]

As if I needed more doom and gloom............

It's definitely a must-read, BTW. He truly earned his Pulitzer Prize with this work.

Stop killing the planet, people. :cry:

[msedano]

1. post apocalyptic, maybe a nuclear war

brought about that perpetual winter and the raging firestorms, was my impression. i was happy he failed to capture what cold feels like; gad, i detest being snow cold. http://labloga.blogspot.com/2007/06/apres-lapocalypse.html

check out Oryx and Krake for a mucked up future derived from science gone wrong.

[jaksavage]

2. Sad and powerful.

I liked it a lot.

[Mojorabbit]

3. It was a chilling book

and a story very well told.

[stuntcat]

4. I just ordered a used one

Thanks, I'd never heard of it.

[villager]

5. as a father to two sons, it terrified me

n/t

[GliderGuider]

6. I bought a copy before my change, but I didn't get around to reading it.

Now I won't. There's no need to rub my own nose in what's coming for so many.

Instead of a journey like that, I've gone on an Inner Journey instead. It's much more useful and a whole lot less depressing -- you could say it's inspiring rather than expiring.

[DemReadingDU]

7. I've been reading your friends at TAE

Since early March 2009 when you recommended reading http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/

from this posting
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2979357


I want to thank you for sending me to read their financial blog. It has been an eye opener, especially today. Things seem to be, more urgent.

[kestrel91316]

8. I prefer to take the view that the scenario in The Road is WAAAAYYYY

beyond anything I would live to see, and probably biologically impossible. But is is used as a useful tool in telling the story.

As horrifying and sad as the book is, it is ultimately hopeful.

[losthills]

9. I've read it three times so far.

And my son's read it at least once. But we've read all of Cormac's books multiple times. All of his books are dark. This is his bleakest work, as far as the setting is concerned, but strangely enough, it may be his most hopeful. It's not really about nuclear devastation. It's about the relationship between a man and his son, and the character of a man who refuses to give up or give in. It's not science fiction. It's literature. It's like Moby Dick or The Old Man And The Sea.