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Though he's often pretentious, Cormac McCarthy wrote quite a doozy with The Road. The story is simple and almost B-movie-like (a father and son walk toward the coast in a post-apocalyptic America). But the book was FREAKY SCARY because there are always cannibals nipping (often quite literally) on their heels. That was one thing the movie didn't get; it had the basic plot but just wasn't very scary. An added plus: it won the Pulitzer Prize so you can brag that you read a literary novel even though it's just a glorified zombie story.
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