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After finishing the Nick Meyer memoirs on Saturday, I was casting about yesterday for something to read. I've been trying to get into the third Star Trek: Vanguard book, Reap the Whilrlwind, for several weeks now, but haven't gotten past the first 40 pages or so. I decided not to pick that one back up.
Instead, I grabbed a book off my shelf that I borrowed from one of the Bears at Bear Coffee a couple months back. I've been feeling the pressure to get it back to it's owner, and thought it would be a good idea to at least try to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy before giving it back...
I started reading it around 4:30 in the afternoon, and at 10:15 I finished. I only stopped to nuke some leftovers for dinner, which I ate with book in hand. This is a staggeringly good book. It's a near-future end-of-the-world science fiction novel in all but marketing. Bit it's dark in a way that sf hasn't allowed itself to be dark since the genre started generating bestsellers in the late '70's. I honestly can't imagine any sf publisher putting this out, with the possible exception of Tor, whose business model apparently allows then to occasionally publish something really different.
But I'm not here to knock the sf industry, but to praise a truly remarkable book. I konw I'm a latecomer to this one (apparently there's already a film version starring Viggo Mortensen that's been sitting on the shelf for over a year while The Weinstein Company tries to gather enough funds to release it -- and figure out how to market it.) Oh, I guess it also won a Pulitzer.
If you haven't already, read this book. It's brilliant.
Instead, I grabbed a book off my shelf that I borrowed from one of the Bears at Bear Coffee a couple months back. I've been feeling the pressure to get it back to it's owner, and thought it would be a good idea to at least try to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy before giving it back...
I started reading it around 4:30 in the afternoon, and at 10:15 I finished. I only stopped to nuke some leftovers for dinner, which I ate with book in hand. This is a staggeringly good book. It's a near-future end-of-the-world science fiction novel in all but marketing. Bit it's dark in a way that sf hasn't allowed itself to be dark since the genre started generating bestsellers in the late '70's. I honestly can't imagine any sf publisher putting this out, with the possible exception of Tor, whose business model apparently allows then to occasionally publish something really different.
But I'm not here to knock the sf industry, but to praise a truly remarkable book. I konw I'm a latecomer to this one (apparently there's already a film version starring Viggo Mortensen that's been sitting on the shelf for over a year while The Weinstein Company tries to gather enough funds to release it -- and figure out how to market it.) Oh, I guess it also won a Pulitzer.
If you haven't already, read this book. It's brilliant.
