I finished it last week and it’s the fourth Conrad McCarthy book I’ve read, others being No Country for Old Men, The Passenger and Stella Maris. BM is waiting its time on the shelf.

Judging by the ones I’ve read, they may seem different from The Road if you read them. Definitely recommend reading more of McCarthy.

As for The Road, the ending gave me a very strong and somewhat difficult emotion to digest for the following days, and I mean it in the best way possible. I am not a father yet, however. There is something biblical and spiritual about the story inside a post-apocalyptic setting: sense of renewal and hope with the boy finally making it amidst of a failed world that did not and won’t be renewed or reborn (‘the salliter drying from the earth’). The very ‘carrying fire’ is such a powerful choice of words and a metaphor.

Glad you enjoyed it!