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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Start date: September 2, 2014

Finish date: September 30, 2014

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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 27, 2011 Kelli rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

Great book due to the bleak and dreary circumstances.

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Apr 22, 2008 Joyce rated it liked it

No one would want to live in the world imagined in this book, a post-apocalyptic landscape of ash where nothing is living - not a plant, no animals. Most of the people you may encounter look at you as food. Yet, through it all a man and his young son struggle to survive and it is love that sustains them. If you can see the kernel of hope in that, then you may see what is ultimately redeeming in this story. It is haunting.

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Dec 04, 2012 Russ rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, 21st-century

McCarthy's take on the post-apocalyptic world is--as one would expect--bleak and violent. The relationship between father and son, though, brings a hopefulness and tenderness to this book that I haven't seen in his other works. ...more

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