Finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy today. I'm a sucker for post apocalyptic stuff.
Leaning towards giving it 5 out of 5. The only slight criticism was I sometimes got confused over who was saying what, the author breaking with convention and not bothering to trifle with speech marks or the verb "said".
I got his number on that though - he was trying to mirror the end of the world, the breakdown in society, by dumping the normal rules. What's the point in speech marks if the world's a smoking ruin and the survivors are going around eating each other?
For about 10 minutes I was really smug about this revelation, then I discovered the author just couldn't be arsed in putting them in.
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I prefer your version - and I'm sticking with it.
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