A review by cyborgforty
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

5.0

You know that writing advice that's like, "Don't write about the war, write about the little kid's shoes left by the side of the road." This book is a masterclass in that. I thought this would be a quick read---the dialogue is fast, and the scenes short. (Oh the dialogue. The syntax grated me at first but McCarthy's ability to convey such vivid voices without any dialog tags at all is phenomenal.) But actually I could only get through 20-30 pages at at a time. The prose is so simplistic yet so haunting. 

(Also, I think this book would make a really good open-world game.)