The Road“The Road” was one of those books that for me changed how I saw the world and especially how I looked at other books or movies. As a consumer of other people creativity, there was stuff before The Road and there was the stuff after. Cormac McCarthy’s book is absolutely honest. It sets up the story, builds the world and is utterly remorseless in describing the lives of the characters that live there.

I kept waiting for Cormac to let off the gas, to give the characters some respite from the conditions and physics of the world that they lived in but he would not. The Road is a completely adult novel and was for me a really maturing experience. The John Hillcoat directed film version will hit theatres on Nov 25t and stars Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, and Guy Pearce. Collider sat down with the director and we have the interview below. Via QuietEarth. Also, Quiet Earth has a review of The Road up over there that is worth a look.