The Road
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A compelling and very atmpospheric read, with superb ambience. A father and son trek, more or less silently, across America which has been changed into an ash-covered post-apocalyptic wasteland. There is danger and menace all around and a sense of constant threat. The language and minimal punctuation contained in the narrative adds to the dismal desolation. I loved it. There was one passage which really summed it up for me:
"This was the first human being other than the boy that he'd spoken to in more than a year. My brother at last. The reptilian calculations in those cold and shifting eyes. The grey and rotting teeth. Claggy with human flesh. Who has made of the world a lie every word."
"This was the first human being other than the boy that he'd spoken to in more than a year. My brother at last. The reptilian calculations in those cold and shifting eyes. The grey and rotting teeth. Claggy with human flesh. Who has made of the world a lie every word."
Released 13 yrs ago (10/10/2010 UTC) at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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To Flintshire
Picked up from the sorting office today along with a few others. I am really looking forward to reading this, thanks