The Road - Cormac McCarthy

I hated the first McCarthy I read (All The Pretty Horses), but having watched the movie and heard all of the critical superlatives, I decided to give this a try, and was duly impressed if not enamoured.

In contrast to the film, this post-apocalyptic vision seemed to me less about environmental catastrophe than the end of spirituality/religion. References to God are frequent and the rhythm is biblical, short paragraphs written in plain prose with the odd poetical flourish (“ensepulchred”).