I read it a few months ago. It was disturbing in a subtle kind of way, like having a rock in your shoe that's not really big enough to stop and take off your shoe, but enough to bug you. I thought the plot could have been enhanced ... I kept waiting for something more to happen.
I read it last week. It was the Norwegian version, so some things may have been lost in translation. But it gave me an eerie feeling, because it was just too easy to figure out what had happened to the world even without an explanation. The way I understood the novel it was all about the eeriness, the fact that there were very few people left in the world and there was never real daylight; that even though nothing happened, there was always the fear that something WOULD happen if they let their guard down.
i read it almost as soon as it was first published. i have been reading cormac mccarthy since his novel 'blood meridian.' bleak and depressing.:svengo: that is my take on both the book and the movie... both are also worth five stars out of five stars too. great book and movie! :cheers2: i would not recommend neither the book or the move to anyone completing suicide... they just might give you the push to go over the edge!
