so here's a story about me trying to go to sleep around 11:30 on monday evening and picking up my new copy of The Road by Cormac McCarthy and reading a few pages, cut to 2:30 am and me finishing The Road with a 'holy shit what a ride' look on my face. and then cut to me watching cartoons for half an hour to get the imagery and intense horror out of my head so that i had a better shot at non-apocalyptic dream (which i am prone to - both to dreaming in general and ofen enough the apocalyptic kind - even without a brilliant book forcing me into it). suffice to say the cartoons only partially worked and i ended up having an apocalyptic horror meets superhero dream. not a great combo.
so 4.5 stars.
this book is incredibly well written, and perhaps more importantly it is just brilliantly executed. no chapter breaks at first may make you think, "that's strange" but after reading a few pages you realize how innane chapters in this book would be (maybe all books? - whoa i just blew my own mind a little bit there). anyway, the only reason this book does not get a perfect score is because i didn't really enjoy the prose that made up "the man's" dreams/hallucinations. my boyfriend (who read it first and also loved it) thought these beautiful passages offered a great comparison to the horror of the dystopian life these characters were living...and he has a great point...but overall i didn't find the actual prose that moving, and i was so intensely invested in what was actually happening to these characters that i became annoyed by these forays into fantasy and often found myself skipping ahead to see if they were going to be able to avoid whatever next horror awaited them. oy. what a book. it's been a very long time since i curled up with a book good enough to make me not regret only getting a few hours sleep before work.
of course i'm going to have to watch cartoons for two weeks straight to purge these dreams, but its still worth it i think.
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