...wasn't Twilight, although I very much enjoyed the Twilight books...
It was The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.
It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006. The film will be released in 2009. And Entertainment Weekly has listed it as the #1 new classic:
A father and son trudge across an ashen American landscape in the wake of some unnamed apocalypse, fighting off sexually predatory bandits, scavenging for food, uncovering charnel-house horrors, then moving on, constantly moving on, toward some mirage of a better future. We don't need writers of Cormac McCarthy's caliber to inform us of looming planetary catastrophes; we can read the newspaper for that. We need McCarthy to imagine the fate of the human soul if the worst really does come to pass; what he depicts in The Road is strange, awful, tender, and, in the end, surprising.
This actually is a tough story...a heartbreaking and brutal story, and isn't for everyone. But I will freely recommend it to those of you who love reading great literature. It's brilliant. It's haunting. It's unforgettable...
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