It must be so difficult to inject humanity into the post-apocalyptic, yet McCarthy manages that with this story of the fraying relationship between a man and his son. His language is remarkably pared back, but generally highly effective; only, occasionally I found myself drifting through paragraphs and not paying attention. ( )

I'm happy.I finished this book without committing suicide! Talk about depressing. I think Cormac must have taken a writing course where they challenged him to write a book without any hope. Well, he did it with this one. Now recognize I truly appreciate McCarthy's talents. Not only is the world these people populate bleak and barren, so is the prose. Everything about and in this book is consistently bleak, barren and without hope.If someone recommends this book to you it means they don't like you. ( )

I wasn't expecting to like it, but I did. It took a little while to get used to the writing style but eventually I liked that too. It's bleak, it's slightly depressing, but a good read.

This is the story of a father and son wandering around in a post-apocalyptic world trying to survive. There isn't much else to say, except that there are other people who have formed groups that take and eat people to survive. It's a rough world.

I liked it. Yes it is depressing but I think ...more I wasn't expecting to like it, but I did. It took a little while to get used to the writing style but eventually I liked that too. It's bleak, it's slightly depressing, but a good read.

This is the story of a father and son wandering around in a post-apocalyptic world trying to survive. There isn't much else to say, except that there are other people who have formed groups that take and eat people to survive. It's a rough world.

I liked it. Yes it is depressing but I think it reminds us not to take advantage of what we do have. ( )

The book was well-written but the story was rather depressing. ( )

There's no doubt this book is well-written, but I found it quite hard work to take in. The story of a man and his son walking the roads of America following what I presume to be the fallout of a nuclear attack on earth, this is a bleak and stark read. The man is torn between wanting to protect his son from those who round up people walking the streets so that they can eat them, with simply wanting to die. The boy is, understandably, very emotional and wants to help every waif and stray they meet, despite having meagre supplies of their own.

I think the quality of the writing is very good, but it's the sort of book where I can have read a page and have no idea what happened because I haven't taken it in, and I think part of the reason for that is that the story is all fixed around these two characters and not a great deal happening really.

I'm looking forward to seeing the film as I think it will transfer to screen really well. ( )