When I opened this book, I didn’t find anything that I expected. The very first chapter reminded me a little of Stephen King’s work, only deeper and darker, because the evil comes from real people. Any writer should take lessons from the research and the language that Cormac McCarthy is using. It is no wonder that this sort of book was adopted for the cinema, because of the realistic dialogues and the descriptions that catch your heart. This is hardcore realism that emphasizes the book, as an art form, has a raw power that other mediums fail to possess. On the other hand the morality of this book shows that every good deed will be punished and what went wrong can not be mended, like the hero’s attempt to bring water for the dying man in the beginning.
One of my writing students asked me while I was reading this book, ‘why do I try to make all of her stories visual and decrease the amount of philosophical thoughts contained within?’ I told her that I believe that the advent of films has taken books to another level, because the visuality that was developed in the last century took away some of the burden of description and raised the beat of the book. For example, Tolstoy’s War and Peace would not be published today because readers no longer need or have the time for such descriptive writing. And if one is looking for an answer of how a book should be in the fast-paced age of the film, you could do no worse than read this book.