Quote Originally Posted by ClangClang View Post
Great list above. "The Road" is probably the single most archetypal, defining book of the entire genre. It's nothing but despair, sadness, and pain. I started reading it after dinner on a camping trip and literally stayed up in my tent, reading by red headlamp, until I finished the book at 4am. I couldn't put it down.

I tried to read "blood meridian" by cormac mccarthy and it was literally dogshit. I mean, one of the worst books if ever read--so shitty I stopped torturing myself. If anyone has read that, and "the road," are they written in a similar fashion?