Open Letter to Cormac McCarthy

Dear Mr. Cormac McCarthy,
First I would like to thank you very much for writing The Road. It is truly something special. Not often do you come across a book that you just can’t put down, but for me The Road was definitely one of those books. I remember when I first started reading it I was a little behind my class which was already about fifty pages into the book. I sat down that night around nine or ten and though I would start and have time to catch up to the class and still have a decent night’s sleep. Little did I know that the hours would roll one after another as I turned the pages one after another until I had read the whole book. It didn’t take long to get me hooked to the story of the boy and his father and the beautiful language that described the ugly world around them. There was something about the characters that just had me reading page after page until I finally came to the end of the book and found out how their story ended. If I had tried to put the book down that night half way through I know I would have been laying in my bed awake thinking about the boy and his father resting somewhere along the road at night waiting for the sun to rise as much as they were waiting for me to pick up the book once more so they could continue their journey. One of my favorite things about the plot was how you never mentioned how this horrendous setting came to be. I think the mystery of what triggered this apocalyptic future was perfect for this book. Thank you again for writing The Road and I hope to get a chance to read your other books sometime in the near future.