Book #2 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

And finally, I have a second book for the list.
I've just finished reading it and I read in less than a week. It's a less than 200 page-tale about a post-apocaliptical journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, most life on earth.
It amazed me by how the book completely stands on great writing. the plot is ridiculously simple, yet so powerful. The writing to support this kind of plot is necessarily rich. However, what I liked it most was how parsimonious was some of the writing. With just a few words, I could imagine the whole situation and how I would feel in such a situation. It is definitely intense and made me question very much about I would react in a situation like that. And in this sense, i agree with one review (By George Monbiot) that goes like this
"A few weeks ago I read what I believe is the most important environmental book ever written. It is not Silent Spring, Small Is Beautiful or even Walden. It contains no graphs, no tables, no facts, figures, warnings, predictions or even arguments. Nor does it carry a single dreary sentence, which, sadly, distinguishes it from most environmental literature. It is a novel, first published a year ago, and it will change the way you see the world". I agree.
Enjoy!