Finishing the Road

Gerard, the sound guy from Cadets is passing around this book by the dude who wrote No Country For Old Men, claiming it to be an "easy-read", and tho I'm not much for post-Apocalyptic sci-fi dramas, I was severely bored so I traded him my Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All for his The Road and lay down to read the first few pages. Interesting writing style, short & to the point with carefully placed passages of sudden intense narrative, letting just enough information trickle out to force the need to know what happens next. Before I knew it I had read 40 pages. The second time I cracked it was on the plane from Charlotte to Newark and I read another 115. I checked out the front cover as we landed. Turns out Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for this book. Now I feel smart. Gerard gave Skinny Legs and All back to me before I left. He was on page 17. He said it was written in Farsi. I stepped on his fingers.

I expect to finish this book this weekend.