The Road - class book

I am currently reading Cormac McCarthy's book "The Road" as my class book. My bad conscience is that I am only on page 40. I have just had so much to do these last couple of weeks that I am behind in some of my classes. The plan is to finish it in my winter vacation.

The Road was published in 2006. It is a science-fiction novel and the plot is set in a post-apocalypse world. A father and his young son are the main characters and they are traveling across a gray and destroyed landscape. The novel received excellent reviews and was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.




As mentioned I have not gotten that far. But my first impression is good and I think I am going to like it. It is really different from the books I usually read which are crime novels and romance novels. It is strangely written though. Had I not known in advance what the plot was I would have had a hard time figuring out what I was reading about. The post-apocalyptic landscape is described but it is hard to understand what have happened. But the book will probably get to that though. Here is an excerpt from it for you to read:

With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south. Barren, silent, godless. He thought the month was October but he wasnt sure. He hadnt kept a calendar for years. They were moving south. There'd be no surviving another winter here.

There are a few difficult words in this novel but I look them up if I can find a computer. When I first started reading I reacted to the way McCarthy uses the apostrophes. Or should I say how he does not use them? I did not know you could write "hadnt" and "wasnt". Did you know?