Without a Plot

When an author doesn't spend time planning out how the book is going to be writtenbeforehand, you can tell. Like Slaughterhouse 5, this book is all over the place. There is a train of thought, but you can tell that the author didn't really plan out what would happen next and instead just went out and wrote whatever came to mind.

If there is one thing that this book has taught me so far is that you must enjoy life while you can. They mentioned in the last interview that people take the idea of an apocalypse far

more seriously than they did about 20 years ago. It is now a far more real possibility. That is part of the reason why this book was so successful; it has become more of a theory of what

might happen instead of some little bedtime story. People like looking at serious things that might happen. It's not so they can prepare for it so that it can happen, but to just have a little taste of what it will be like if it came.

You need a certain passion in order to stay alive. If you become rich in the process, then great. This is the sort of thing that McCarthy said during the third part of the interview with Oprah. And it applies in just about every type of world that will every excist. The man in The Road needs his son in order to give him motivation. McCarthy needs his own son to do the same. And whether it's another human that keeps you moving or the fact that you're doing what you love, it will always help.

Note: I had no plot for this blog