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May 30, 2009
Marla
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Shelves:
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zz-2008
Sad post apocalyptic story of a boy and his father suffering the hardships of daily life.
Very, very unsettling. Extremely quick. Read it in a day!
Ranking and reviewing The Road is not easy for me ... I neither loathed it nor loved it, and thus do not fall into the prevalent, polarized camps of reviews. Well, maybe it's not so difficult to give it a middling rating actually, but processing my thoughts on it took a while.
I didn't at all mind McCarthy's stylistic idiosyncrasies, which fit the dystopian setting perfectly ... who needs apostrophes and quotation marks when one lacks food and water, faces cannibalistic threats, etc., for days o ...more
I didn't at all mind McCarthy's stylistic idiosyncrasies, which fit the dystopian setting perfectly ... who needs apostrophes and quotation marks when one lacks food and water, faces cannibalistic threats, etc., for days o ...more
Pros: This book was cold, dark, and my heart was racing as I read the entire book. The idea of living in a postapolyptic world that is vast and desolate, a world where you no longer can identify humans as friends or foes, where animals and fish are extinct, is a terrifying thought.
Cons: The ending paragraph was cryptic. Wherever dialogue is written in the book, there are no quotation marks. It's annoying. Also, her writing was kind of off sometimes--it seemed like there were sloppy grammatical ...more
Cons: The ending paragraph was cryptic. Wherever dialogue is written in the book, there are no quotation marks. It's annoying. Also, her writing was kind of off sometimes--it seemed like there were sloppy grammatical ...more
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