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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

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. Week 18: Pulitzer Book

* Week 18: Progress Post
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* Week 18: Introduction
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Nov 06, 2019 Dave Cullen rated it it was ok

Shelves: gave-up

I know "The Road" is quite beloved, but I'm giving up on p. 10. I've talked to readers, who confirmed the obvious: it's not going to change much, and if I'm bored out of my mind now...

Just not for me. ...more

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Sep 21, 2011 Adam Smith rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: reading-challenge-2015

A man and a boy face countless struggles and hardships as they battle to survive in the dying days of a dying world. Keeping moving, the pair travel roads without names through towns long forgotten. A bleak look at survival at the end of the world.

This book is bleak. Seriously bleak. It is a very dark tale made all the more horrifying by how little of it is actually explained. The characters are never referred to by name and it is never said what actually happened to make the world the way it is ...more

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Aug 31, 2023 Dana Fontaine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I don’t know why I like this book but I really really love it. I love the writing style and the feeling In every word. I love the imagery and symbolism. Highly recommend.

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Feb 02, 2012 Nicole rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, adventure, suspense, read-2015, post-apocalyptic

So a man and his son survive the apocalypse and wander the broken road in search of some refuge. It was okay. Some parts were downright interesting but in the end I felt like the author had held back so much of the world from me that I couldn't really get into the story itself.

This was compounded by the author feeling it for some reason necessary to break free of the constraints of traditional punctuation throughout his characters' dialogue, disavowing quotation marks, apostrophes, sometimes co ...more

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Oct 14, 2013 Rae rated it really liked it

Shelves: adult-fic, dystopian

I've long been a fan of post-apocalyptic literature, particularly books that don't provide us with the wider viewpoint of what has happened and instead focus on the human reaction to it (for example, Alas, Babylon). It's in this vein that I found The Road compelling. We don't know what has happened, we only see how people are reacting to it, primarily through the eyes of a man and his son.

I had some questions, the foremost being why the father feels the intense need to keep moving. I also spent ...more

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