Read by recommendations of my Creative Writing Professor (shoutout Dr. Blake)

As this is my first time reading Cormac McCarthy’s work, I am particularly interested in his prose style. He is commonly regarded as a minimalist, and one can definitely see that. With this style of writing, McCarthy can play with perspective and dialogue in very interesting ways. Thoughts, dialogue, and perspective are melt easily together. Yet, there is an intuitive element to the way he writes. Additionally, I want to praise the balance of excellent and progressive poetry in his prose.

Thematically there is lots to appreciate. This is my first post-apocalyptic novel, but I think The Road may be the standard. We cut away from the melodrama, fantastical, and absurd circumstances of a post-apocalyptic world. In The Road, readers are thrown into a world where the only truth is the bond between a man and his son trying to trek the desolation of the world. Here we are presented with the themes of survival, anemoia, capriciousness of modern normalities, existentialism (there is an absurdist angle), and the value of precious little moments.