Everyman and his dog struggles in a post-apocalyptic scenario. Grief and love are the primary themes here, and how unbearable they are! How rapturous!
Reading Experience
There are no punctuation. No distinction between who’s saying what. It’s a stream of information, and surprisingly your brain works it out quite well. Even though it is very, very unstructured, with no adherance to typical grammatical constructs, it feels natural. And it that brings out the beauty and intensity of every internal monologue, conversation, scenic descriptions of nature. Makes me feel like I am reading McCarthy… but less intense.
It’s actually pretty nice to read when you’ve had a long day. You can just let the book take the reign for a while and get into a flow state.
Plot Review
It’s yet another post-apocalyptic story. It has good enough action, technical stuff, natural expedition. Not quite “dystopic”. In a way, very similar to Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. The villain in this story is not the apocalypse itself, or the rogue hooligans who try to attack other people in the story, instead its trying to cope with everything, just trying to make sense of it all, how you miss them, and how they’re just gone.
But there’s hope. Through survival, there’s hope. There’s kindness in this post-apocalyptic world as well. There’s longing, there’s love. There are airplanes. And a dog.
Not much else to say, I’ve forgotten a lot of things since I’d read it (about 4 months ago?), but it’s definitely a page-turner. Certain moments actually made me feel like crying, and I don’t usually do that.
Impressive. 4/5