someone please recommend a very short novel with prose so good it’ll make me sick. just read an acclaimed Hugo-winning work of #scifi and it was... real bad #books

@davidcrespo

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I read it in one sitting while on a trip and it honestly changed my whole perspective on writing fiction. It's highly disturbing, but its writing is so sparse and its words are so carefully chosen that it blew my mind how it conveyed such powerful images and feelings with almost no fluff.

@joehumphrey @davidcrespo

I will second The Road, and it's fairly short (at 287 pages) but it is harrowing, especially as a parent.