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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

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May 23, 2016 Sue rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobooks

So.....I finally read The Road. Three stars technically means 'I liked it,' but, I didn't like it!

It's possible that it's more moving in print. The repetitiveness, stark dialogue, and lack of plot just didn't work for me in audio.

Of course, I was aching for the backstory throughout the entire book. What exactly was it that caused the apocalypse?

A lot of the details didn't seem plausible to me. I've only read a few dystopian novels, but I always enjoy the world building, the author's speculati ...more

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Apr 15, 2014 Michelle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2014-audio-books, pulitzer

How did I get so lucky to read two 5 star books back to back? Unknown to me at the time, I chose to read two Pulitzer's back to back.

I do not normally read dystopian fiction but wanted to listen to a short book before I started Justin Go's The Steady Running of the Hour which was not published until Tuesday. The shortest book in my Audible library was Cormac McCarthy's The Road which won the Pulitzer in 2005.

An extremely bleak tale of an unnamed man and his son, whose name and age are also unkno ...more

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Feb 01, 2015 Kathy rated it it was ok · review of another edition

A very dark novel. I am not sure why the book won pulitzer prize. The prose that McCarthy uses was very prolific and read like a poem in some areas. Otherwise, just a dark novel with a so so relationship between father and son.

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Aug 01, 2014 Chanda2426 rated it it was ok

I'm not sure I really understood the premise of this book. I didn't feel attached to the characters, or even the storyline, but I did like the theme of loyalty and love conquering all. ...more

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May 03, 2020 Jeana rated it really liked it

Shelves: well-read-in-100-books, 4-5-star-books, 100-years-of-books-challenge

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 2006
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4.5 Stars
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The atmosphere in this book is haunting and bleak. The story is just so depressing. McCarthy’s writing is really straight forward yet I was captivated and could not stop reading. I am left with So many questions that will go unanswered but sometimes that is ok.
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Pulitzer winners are hit and miss for me but this one was good for me. I have put off reading for years in spite of my husband urging me to read. I should not have waited so long.

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