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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

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. Week 18: Pulitzer Book

* Week 18: Progress Post
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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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Oct 14, 2011 Ghostcat rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015-pop-reading-challenge

This is my first time reading McCormac, only heard about this book because I liked the movie inspired by it, and it was à really good surprise, I fell in love with the writing style.
The film is really respectful of the story, so nothing was a surprise, but the short sentences, the raw reality, the descriptions of our devastated earth are efficient, intense and I was hooked all along. Even if we need a strong positive mood to endure it.

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