The book to vote for...

Even only going through 4 groups of our presentation projects, I'm pretty sure that I have heard the book that I find most interesting. The book is the post-apocalyptic novel The Road. It really doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it was written by the same man of the book that me and my group tried to "sell" to you Cormac McCarthy's, No Country for Old Men; it is because that is the kind of story that I find very interesting. End-of-the-world type fiction has always interested me. From the stories, to movies, even video games. The tale of humanity having to start over and survive in a newer, harsher world trying to prevent the same mistakes that got them in their predicament in the first place. The dark themes and usually very tight, exciting writing styles that surround such type of media would keep me interested. It took me awhile to get used to McCarthy's style of no quotations or punctuations of any kind spanning the entire novel, but after your eye is trained to ignore the need for it, you will realize he writes description of places and things very brisk and at the same time, very descriptive. It makes me almost see exactly what he is writing about (I think so anyways) and it gives it a movie quality. It's not the disaster part of disaster novels that really hook me; it's about the struggles of the characters in the wake of the catastrophic, world-ending event that keep me reading, or watching. I will probably go and buy the book myself for my own enjoyment.