Carol G. (bordercolliefan) reviewed on 1/3/2008 + 8 more book reviews

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One of the reviewers of this book commented about the only apparent life in the book being human. My sense was that McCarthy is describing post-nuclear war, i.e., nuclear winter because of the cold and ash.

If any numbers of humans survived, then it is logical to conclude that humans would eat all animals until extinction for are we not doing it now even without a nuclear war?

Everyone should read this book along with the book "Overshoot." This book may well be our already written future history. We have not been kind to each other or to mother nature and McCarthy may well be describing for us the results of our life choices in our overuse of all of earth's bountifulness, including petroleum and other energy sources. Is not the world gearing up for war over the last petroleum and whose to say, in the fighting over the last barrel of oil, someone won't use the nuclear weapons so prevalent. McCarthy's character of the young boy keeps running through my brain--"Aren't we the good guys?" As I drive about using the last of the petroleum for somewhat questionable needs with me thinking I am one of the good gals on planet earth.

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