chicagocid reviewed on 4/21/2012 + 4 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I picked this book up because I like reading dystopian/post apocalyptic fiction and because of the awards and accolades associated with this book and author. Despite these, this book with its lack of punctuation and its short sentences and paragraphs is almost unreadable. I, like the father and son in this novel, floundered and trudged through this book. Incidently, "trudge", "flounder" and "Ash" as in "everything is covered in ash", are the most commonly recurring words in this book. I get it, oversimplification, no chapter breaks and really short paragraphs were used as a literary device. At one point the main character is thinks about the uselessness of books when day to day survival is the main concern. Yet many books in this genre convey this urgency in an interesting way. I did not care about the father and son in this book I only wanted this to end one way or another. At least it was short.

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