Cormac McCarthy really amazes me. The characters in this novel feel so real, it’s as though the events in the book were happening to a relative or even a best friend. The story is brutally honest, and written with such talent that it seems as though it is a depiction of a situation that the author lived through.
Of course, the book is being developed into a major motion picture. It is directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the Man and the Boy. This should excite me, except that the last novel to be adapted from McCarthy was No Country For Old Men. Yeah, that film was garbage compaired to the novel.
Anyway, the story is about an unnamed man traveling “the road” on foot with his son in a post-apocalyptic environment. The conversations they have, the horrors they encounter, and the fact that the child has been raised in this world and has no idea of what the world was like before the icident is truly heartbreaking and engrossing. I must admit, the trailer depicted the cannibalistic survivors and led the viewer to believe that the two characters spend the entire story running from them. That’s not the case. That would make the story a sort of Mad Max kinda thing. Make no mistake. This is a book about a man and his son, and the unbreakable bond between them that proves that there is no situation that can shatter what matters the most: “Each each other’s world entire.”
Weis and Hickman
Dragons of a Fallen Sun centers around an enigmatic young girl named Mina, who arrives in Krynn within a massive storm. She wages an incredible and bloody jihad in the name of her “One God.” The book declares that the Gods have left Krynn long ago, but Mina’s magical conquest demands that somthing strange and dangerous is about to take hold of the world in a way that even the great Dragons couldn’t predict.
Weis and Hickman can still weave a terrific story on an epic scale, and their ability to captivate the reader so immensly is uncanny. This novel is a sure bet winner!
hmm…only one review??? i was looking for more. although, this can be tricky ground, seeing as it is online, and free and open to all kinds of thought, or critique. but then again, isn’t that the point?
I just thought I’d check in because I know I’ve heard many a verbalized critique from you before of the oh so many novels you’ve read of late!! That, and I’m attempting to push you into writing another critique…..it’s good for you to use that writer’s mind to do some analytical authoring!!