Cormac McCarthy “The Road”

At this point you might slowly realise I don’t fancy reading about happy endings and sweet nothings.

This one – it’s dark, pitch black.
There is a boy. And a man. On a road. And that’s just about as much as you are going to get and that’s about as much as you are going to need.

It’s an invitation to walk with them.

To wander alone, you and your child, more hungry and miserable with each step you take. And the world around you is even more miserable and a lot more hungrier. What a perfect platform for a philosophy class on the moral dilemma of cannibalism. Think hard, for the time is running out faster than your food does.

And the road goes on. And on& Survival and death are the only options; until they aren’t.

Fear goes along with any hope – and what hope there is?

Because you knew the end even before you took this road; because at the end, there would be only death.

I believe this was the first spoiler we ever got in our lives.