Alex's Book Club - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Ah yes, just to bring you down from Christmas with a bump, a quick post about a notoriously depressing masterpiece:


In fact I found Cormac McCarthy's The Road (coming soon with extra Mortensen to a cinema near you!) to be not nearly as depressing as I'd feared. The story is bleak for sure, but it's so beautifully written as to be almost uplifting. It's a wonderful book and I would certainly recommend it to anyone who can avoid getting hung up on the apocalyptic nihilism of the story.