Balderdash

I haven’t been stuck on a book like this for a long time. I think I’ve read it through about three time (it is a quick read). McCarthy weaves a compelling and tragic vision of a world broken, without hope of a future, yet sets two hopeful characters against the bleakness. The father and the boy each the only thing left to hold onto. This is definately making it’s way to the top of my distopic future list. This book was a grisly, horrific, tender, and tragic story.

“Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A being from a planet that no longer existed.”

Dis-topic future top ten:

1. The Road
2. 1984
3. Brave New World
4. Handmaid’s Tale
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Farenheit 451
7. Riddley Walker
8. A Canticle for Leibowitz
9. Neuromancer
10. The Children of Men

Got a nightmare, dystopian book I should read let me know. I’m settling into ‘Under the Volcano’ for the next few weeks but I’ll need something for August.