The Road

Oh...this book. I had so many mixed feelings reading this book. It is so bleak and dark...even the way he writes just envelopes you in this dark world. But I couldn't help but love it...I loved the light inside these two characters - father and son. I loved the inherent goodness in the child, and the heartbreaking desperateness of the father to protect and save him. It's hard to read at times, but I felt totally worth it. The message McCarthy sends about human nature made an impact on me - how we can be awful, evil, and inhuman, or virtuous, beautiful, and pure, or...for most of us...somewhere in between.