The Road-an intro

So once again i started a new book. This time i went into a bit of obscurity from what i normally read.I decided to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Normally, i'm not too big a fan of McCarthy for one simple reason: his writing style. He uses a very odd writing style in that he does not use punctuation of any kind really. Meaning that he does not use comma's, quotation marks, or semi-colons/colons. This can lead to very confusing paragraphs and conversations including more than two people. My first experience with this odd writing style was with his novel, All the Pretty Horses. From what i got through it was a good book but the lack of punctuation is what led me to stop reading it. The Road is different though. His sentence structure is simple in the story and the lack of punctuation is not a main problem. As for conversations it is very simple to follow because the majority of them are between the father and his son and you can always tell which of the two is talking.