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| Cover Art for "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy |
While this book could definitely be categorized as a post apocalyptic novel, it's originality and unique perspective of what a possible future after a cataclysmic event could be sets it a mile apart from any book I've read under this genre. In a good way. "The Road" is a story of a father and son struggling to survive in a world where almost everything is dead, except for bloodthirsty cannibals. They are constantly on the move in order to find food and water, or on "The Road", traveling to some distant coastline where they hope the world holds a little bit more forgiveness. While most stories within this category, whether the medium is book, movie, or video game form, almost always glorify the perspective in some way. Such as living in a land where most of the population has perished as well as all forms of government and civility along with it, the heroes of these stories give the word "survival" a new meaning. But most of these stories do not seem to depict realistic projections of what the world would be like after something like unstoppable deadly viruses, mass rioting, complete civil unrest, nuclear war, etc. Then again, we are not living in such a state of existence, (yet) so whose to say what the world would be like or not be like? In any case, Cormac McCarthy does an excellent job of depicting a brutal, savage world in which the "Heroes" struggle everyday in every way imaginable to survive where every minute detail is as interesting and important as the next.
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