false <![CDATA[The Road]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219258979m/523705.jpg 6288 59 A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-and each other. <i>The Road</i> is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. This novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection. 3355573 book 26 9 2006 The Road total:54647|5:21416|4:18826|3:9226|2:3371|1:1815| 54647 218589 75356 13820 5 109 false false Tue Feb 19 05:38:56 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 05:39:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 74 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 14:18:09 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 16:36:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 64 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 06 14:37:40 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 26 01:12:31 -0800 2009
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For the first 25-30 pages of The Road my BS detector rang like a fire alarm. It soon quieted down, bu...more...]]> 1 45 false false Wed Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 11:37:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 11:46:43 -0700 2008
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What can you say about a seventy four year old author who has been interviewed by the media just thrice? That his work is dark and luminous? That he brings to life th...

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“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outhe...more...]]> 5 14 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 00:34:22 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 17 20:18:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 13 false true Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 29 20:46:49 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 23:49:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 17 false false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 15 19:26:05 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 25 17:59:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 18 false true Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 20:03:53 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 14:29:44 -0700 2008
Essentially, I've been hearing rumblings on the Internet now and again that McCarthy is the Faulkner of our age, so I grabbed this book haphazardly off the shelf from the library to give him a lo...more...]]> 5 13 false false Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 08:28:28 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 11:03:31 -0700 2008
With a dearth of adornment and minimal superfluous dialogue in “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy pulls readers and co-travelers into the depths of the darkest hell with only a pinprick of light as reprieve. This narrow beam of ligh...more...]]> 5 14 false false Mon Sep 10 16:38:26 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 18:56:04 -0700 2007
I will say that it is beautifully written. The characters have no names. The land has no name. Everything is covered in ash from something that happened but that we the reader are not meant to know of.

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This review contains spoilers, but at least read this far: don't read this book. This book is vile. This boo...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=523705