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I'm doubtless cheating McCarthy by only giving the book 3 stars but the rating system just seems inadequate. On one hand, the story is beautifully written and brilliantly constructed. The prose is sparse but elegant. I'm still puzzling out the meaning of the ending and had to research the word "salitter" (you won't find it in the dictionary) and the prophet Elijah when I finished. Despite the stripped-down nature of the characters, you intensely empathize and relate to them.
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This book is about a man and his young boy trying to survive in a post-apocolyptic world. It's a tough read, albeit a quick one, because most of the story is very bleak. I'm glad that I read it, but I find it difficult to recommend to others for myriad reasons.
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A few critics claim that Cormac McCarthy appears to have been moving toward a final reckoning since Blood Meridian (1985), and Judgment Day has finally arrived. The Road, one of the best efforts to date from one of America's finest novelists, works both as a cautionary tale and as an exploration of pure physical and psychological devastation. McCarthy, heralded for his spare, poetic language and bucking of standard English prose, offers even more brutal, more powerful imagery here, which somehow
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oh dear lord was this ever a sad ass book. i would not recommend it to my worst enemy. it was that sad.
This book is unique,from the style its written to the moving text.Any reader would ask themselves what would I do to survive? very moving, grips its readers from the first page to the end.
I learned that we cannot survive alone,and if we are to survive against all odds what would we be capable of to survive. Excellent book.
I learned that we cannot survive alone,and if we are to survive against all odds what would we be capable of to survive. Excellent book.
The story of a father and son walking throughout a nuclear-devastated land. I honestly don't understand what all the fuss was about. It was a quick read. It made me think, but I didn't feel it was anything more than average.
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I don't think I appreciated The Road until I finished it. The images of this dark journey haunted me for days afterward. Any book that can make you feel anything with such intensity is a success.
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Heartwrenching yet I couldn't put it down.
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Dec 17, 2007
Paula
marked it as to-read
Jul 09, 2008
Bronwyn
marked it as to-read
