The Road

The Road is about a father and his boy on there journey through the scorched lands to the coast, in belief that there is hope there. The land is completely dead, trees entirely stripped and slowly dying. The snow is sometimes made of ash, the rain is thick and suffocating. The journey is both a physical one and a mental one. The physical journey, surviving the harsh and winter scorched wastelands, as well as finding whatever food and materials possible. While also hiding from those that hunt their own kind for food. The mental journey is mainly just in the father. He's believes that he has to keep the boy alive no matter what, so he is very insecure with everything around him. He's deep with mistrust for the world, believing everything is a danger. Not only mistrust, but he fights against his own rotting mind, believing that if he gives in to exhaustion and comfort will lead to his death.
If I were to meet Cormac McCarthy it would probably only be in some coffee shop or restaurant. But if I were to pick where I met him, it would probably have to be in a world much like the book itself. I would only have one question for him, "Is this what you believe the earth will be like in the future?". Honestly, I think the book is great. It has no reason to why this event has happened, it simply has and you have to except it. The setting is always dark mooded and barren, almost a solitude to it. The world itself appears dead. The way he writes the book is very different from most others I've read. He has very many long running sentences, as if he replaced a bunch of the periods with ands instead. And there is no actual dialogue, no sentences with parenthesis. There aren't any names at all for any characters. There isn't even any hint or description as to where they are in the world.