The road

McCarthy subscribes to the less is more style of writing. His prose can be sparce, almost detached. Within those moments of silence and fragmented sentences, the reader can inhale so much mood, tone, and texture that the words become intoxicating. Who needs quotation marks when you are Cormack McCarthy? His narrative follows its own flow and seems, at times, otherworldly. At times McCarthy will dazzle you with a simple sentence that sounds like it is right out of the Bible.