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A father and son walk a post-apocalyptic landscape in search of safety. I enjoyed his use of language. I found myself looking up words more often than with other books, yet his style is simple and direct. Immensely depressing and graphic. While not a thriller per se, anxiety-inducing, compelling, and horrifying. I don't know if I would have this opinion before parenthood, but the experience of reading this book felt sometimes like a metaphor for parenthood itself. Everything is death, but let's
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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.
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A stark, excellent book. I hear there is a movie being made, and I can tell you now: I will not see it. In the book, many of the images are really just sketches. A movie would have to fill in the in the gaps and make up imagery, just as a reader does. I have very clear ideas of what things look and feel like in this world, and I think I'd spend the whole movie disagreeing - thinking things like "no, that's not what that house looks like" or "no, the boy is younger than that."
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One of my favs right now.
the end of this book is so beautiful. I cried like a baby!
Jun 11, 2011
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