The Road
A blackness to hurt your ears with listening.
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
Sentences like these from Cormac McCarthy's The Road just stun.
It is a book that you can read more than once, and not only do the words and images not lose their punch, they hit harder.
I started reading it one morning and could not stop until done before lunch. I've not been engrossed like that in a novel for a long, long time.
Now here it is, your url of the day:
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/smallworlds/
2 comments:
I read The Road and I agree it was a fascinating book, especially for not much actually happening. My only wish was that he be a little more explicit about what the catastrophe was that started everything, but even with that gap in the story I loved it.
That is one deeeeepressing book.
Good. But deeeeepressing.
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