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Whew! This book was beautiful, terrible, thought-provoking, and moving. The adjective "bleak" doesn't really do it justice, yet within this gray, ash-strewn, dying world that an unnamed man and his son travel, there are moments of transcendence. I alternated between not wanting to put it down and having to set it aside for a time because the images cut like knives. I have read a lot of "what if" books in the last year and a half but this story, so matter-of-factly set in a post-apocolyptic lands
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If you died I would want to die too.
This is one of the best novels that I've read in quite some time. Absolutely dripping with richness, it's the sort of book I would have loved to study in depth at university. There is just so, so much to think and talk about, and so many sides to each issue: Hope in a hopeless world; faith in a Godless world; the fear of a father over whether his son will be able to survive in the world once he himself has died...the list goes on.
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This is one of the best novels that I've read in quite some time. Absolutely dripping with richness, it's the sort of book I would have loved to study in depth at university. There is just so, so much to think and talk about, and so many sides to each issue: Hope in a hopeless world; faith in a Godless world; the fear of a father over whether his son will be able to survive in the world once he himself has died...the list goes on.
McCarthy's poetic style is jux ...more
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
I saw the movie first, and was surprised at how faithful it was to the original. I watched ...more
Unusually depressing, even for a post-apocalyptic, but unerringly well written. I find it utterly bizarre that this was ever an Oprah book, or that Cormac McCarthy ever appeared on Oprah. Seems sort of like inviting Kierkegaard to an Up With People concert.
Cormac McCarthy did an amazing job with this post-apocalyptic novel. Be warned, this is not for the weak...the story is about a future in which hope no longer exists, so if you're looking for an uplifting tale, this one's not it.
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Really want to give 4 stars but the depressing tone was too dark. Very detail and a bit slow, yet very very haunting. i think i'm gonna go see the movie version.
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