The Road 1

The Road is currently a very slow book. It still hasn't really caught my attention yet. I am of course writing this post as i read the book. Seems to make more sense to me in comprehension of the story. As far as the story being post-apocalyptic, the world seems to have "ended" already. Probably due to a depletion of natural resources. This i believe is called Post-Peak Oil on my Wikipedia search. One can inference this because the father went hunting through a can for some fuel for the kerosene lamp. One can also inference that the father and son value education and literature and stories. First noticed when the boy got happy because the father could read him a story with the light of the lamp. Water World, I am Legend, and Zombieland are examples post-apocalyptic literature.

This genre of sci-fi is similar to dystopian fiction because it is set in the future. Another thing is that there is one small thing that seems to have changed in comparison to our world. The fact that we still have natural resources where theirs seem to have depleted. This may also seem to be a failure of technology to some aspect. This genre is different from dystopian fiction because a dystopia is basically a utopia gone wrong, but post apocalyptic there usually isn't anything left to create a society out of. However post-apocalyptic times can cause the beginnings of a dystopian society. Making that society the answer to the apocalypse. Examples of post-apocalyptic and dystopian literature/movies would be Terminator, Book of Eli, Resident Evil, etc..Post-Apocalyptic seems to be sad where dystopian is more the image of happiness. Since each genre has its own circumstances, the people would come with their own way of thinking. It's own values, culture, philosophies, etc... I believe that post-apocalyptic could address the importance of life better than dystopian literature could. This is simply because if the world was about to end then people would have experienced death and would emphasize the value of life and of living.

The road is written in a pretty weird way. If one pays attention and looks they would notice how McCarthy screws up his punctuation. He puts periods where there should be commas. Who in their right mind does that ??? X(

It makes the text weird to read. I don't prefer his style of writing at all because it just doesn't catch my attention at all. So far from what i have read in the book, all the book has done is put me to sleep ever other paragraph. -_- I might become more interested later on in the boo, but so far nothing...

This is what i think of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.