>>67962912“The road” is sorta like a bad version of “blood meridian”, in that an uncharitable critic would say it got famous because of one or two shocking scenes
the basement with human livestock in the road or the tree with dead babies hung on it in blood meridian, and the plot doesn’t really go anywhere, but I think CM’s writing style is good, so I’d say give it a shot. It’s the type of thing your high school English teacher probably likes, if he’s a man