Posts Tagged ‘The Road’

Cormac McCarthy writes some really crazy stuff. Look at No Country For Old Men. Chances are you saw the movie but didn’t read the book. Imagine reading that story on paper. Though the movie was pretty good, I imagine the book was even better. They almost always are.

I read The Road last year and I stayed up very late many nights because it was very hard to put down. The movie on the other hand, well, not so much. Again you get the basic idea that this is a post-apocalyptic movie, but it seems so rushed you miss a lot of the little things that the book has to offer. The movie, especially if you didn’t read the book, will leave you with many questions and a bit of confusion.

The barren land that is in the movie would probably best describe the way a real post apocalyptic Earth would be. Populations decimated, a sunless sky, contaminated water and shortage of food supplies. On top of that you have the people of little moral value, cannibalizing and hording people for their food supply. Read the rest of this entry »

This isn’t really anything metal, but I just got done reading a book the other day that is soon to be a movie in 2009. It’s called The Road and was written by Cormac McCarthy, the same writer of No Country For Old Men. It’s kind of an odd but interesting read. It’s a story about A man and his son traveling south in a post-apocalyptic world. Barren lands in a nuclear winter, starvation and cannibals are among a few key things during their fight to survive.

It took me only a few days to read (a couple of late nights) and you can get it in paperback for about 6 dollars at Walmart. I’m not sure if the “The Movie Tie-in Version”, which is the one I read is much different from the original, released in 2006. I’m sure the book is probably better than the movie and they’ll probably change quite a bit here and there but it still looks to be a good flick.

You can read up more on it at Amazon, where they have a better description and other reader’s reviews. I like the post-apocalyptic story themes and if you do too then I highly recommend The Road.  Stephen King is great for this type of theme and I’m about to read “Cell” pretty soon.

…and by the way, It’s on Oprah’s reading list so you know its good…lol. Honestly I had no idea about that until a few minutes ago.