This book haunts me. It’s a Great Book in the timeless, immortal sense. It’ll be around a long time.

But it is as dark as it gets. I’ve never read anything that comes close to it. It’s credible. One has the sense that this is indeed what the first years of a post apocalyptic future would really look like. It fills you with a unique kind of terror. Dread. Hopelessness. Despair. Fear. It means something more than all of that.

It’s devastating. It’s profound. It’s a masterpiece.