The Road in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Feb 16, 2017 Melanie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: family, dystopian

This was definitely out of my comfort zone, but I really loved it, and I had some wonderful discussions about it with my son (who had read it the day before me). It's a bleak, beautiful book, and for me the ocean in the winter was the perfect metaphor to fit with the writing and the setting. There was this great balance between the loss of hope and the certainty that nothing could really get better and the loving, patient relationship between father and son, and the little things that happened t ...more

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Mar 07, 2011 Donna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, scifi

Everything about this story is grim and grey and utterly fascinating. McCarthy's writing is spare and elegant. He has no use for apostrophes or quotation marks, and why should he? His characters have given up everything but the barest essentials to scrape by. Despite the story's "despressing" nature, I thought the ending was hopeful - or as full of hope as any ending could be in that post-apocalyptic world.

I saw the movie first, and was surprised at how faithful it was to the original. I watched ...more

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Feb 02, 2009 Carrie rated it it was amazing

This is one of those books that will stay with you for a long time. It is beautifully written, but I believe it's staying power has a lot to do with the questions you ask yourself while you are reading. It's about a boy and a father living in a post apocalypse world. They must struggles to feed themselves and to survive others who have also survived. I kept wondering if the father was being selfish by not just killing he and his son. What kind of life were they living for? Did they continue beca ...more

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Mar 14, 2008 Laurie rated it it was ok

I just did not get this book. It was a long, depressing experience of people walking about talking in short sentences. I am not sure what I was meant to get from it. People will try to survive even when things suck?

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