 This book has an excellent reputation and it deserves it. Stay with me. The 30-second description of this book is gonna make it sound like every other post-apocalyptic book. It's uh, there's been a disaster. To me it looks like nuclear winter. There's a solid cloud covered. There's no sunlight anymore. Most of the people are dead. All the animals are dead. All the plants are dead. The few people who have survived are not banding together by choice. Because, well, Increasingly there's only one source of food left. This story is about a man and his very young son making their way across what used to be North America in a desperate struggle to survive. And as I was implying there are plenty of post-apocalypse stories. In fact, there's too many. But this one has some things going for it. Number one, it has no zombies in it. Number two, it is very realistic. It's just about the most dire post-apocalypse. I think I've ever seen. There's a very real sense that the human race is not going to survive this. And three, it's very well written. Cormac McCarthy is an excellent author. I shame to say I've not read his works before, but he's very well known as being an excellent author. The other interesting thing about this is the manner in which it's written. There is no punctuation at all, none. No periods, no nothing. There are paragraphs. So the whole thing, even though it doesn't have a cadence or a meter to it, it comes across almost like poetry and it reads very smoothly. Before I read this book, I was told that the manner in which it was written was controversial. And that led me to believe it was going to be difficult to read. In fact, I was thinking of Russell Hoban's Ridley Walker. Which if you're not familiar with this, I actually don't recommend it. I tried to read it. It takes place generations in the future after some sort of apocalypse and the young people who grew up post-apocalypse really, they don't speak the same language that we do and he writes everything they say out phonetically. You basically have to learn to read a new language while you're reading the book. And I did not like that. Some people have appreciated that. The way this was presented to me, I thought it might end up being the same thing, but it's not. Believe me. And in another slight irony, while I was reading reviews of The Road, I saw someone on Goodreads who said that The Road reminded them of The Mouse and His Child, Russell Hoban's other book, which I really, really hate it too. Yeah, I can see the parallels. A father and his young son in a world that is just pure hell, except this one is well-written and is very much worth your time. Please remember to press that like button. It helps my videos get seen. And then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction book, TV, and movie reviews all the time. And please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.