The Road by Cormac McCarthy

This surprised me as being one of my favorite books. The writing style is peculiar. There are no chapters. There are no quotation marks, yet characters speak and you know when they're speaking. This book is extremely descriptive about a lot of seemingly mundane things, and it builds a really vivid world in my mind. So, the world has burned, I think 10 years or so prior. Wild fires I think? They don't really get into the details. We very much are just traveling Dad and Boy as they travel south to escape the worst of the winter to come. We follow them as they scavenge, build fires, starve, eat, and survive. It's a fairly short book. And it follows a sort of standard pattern throughout. A pattern that flows really well, but would probably get boring if it were a much longer book. They have supplies, they walk the road, the scavenge some things, they don't find much, they go hungry for a few days, they encounter some other survivors and there's some sort of conflict or event, and we kind…