I really enjoy most of Cormac’s books, but I do sometimes have a hard time getting through parts of them. I really loved The Road and No Country For Old Men and found them to be the easiest to read. My favorite books were the Border Triology. I have his two new books that recently came out, but have been waiting for our upcoming vacations to dive into these. I’m looking forward to them.
I think I lean this way too. Love the Lonesome Dove series as well as his “americana” novels like the Duane Moore series.
I read The Road and thought it was fantastic. While reading it I thought how it would make a great movie. Not so much.
Some of the best stuff about the book was omitting any backstory about an event that lead to the apocalypse or their life before being on the road. I guess Hollywood types decided audiences couldn’t handle the vagueness and added that in for them.
Did you see the movie or only the trailer? The movie didn’t have anything about the cause or life before, other than a few scenes in the early post-apocalypse period with the mother. But they added stuff to the trailer about global disasters that was nowhere to be found in the movie.
That said, I thought the movie was very good but not amazing. It was true to the events and tone of the book, but never really took off. I’d rank it higher than All the Pretty Horses but not as good as No Country.