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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Start date: September 2, 2014

Finish date: September 30, 2014

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May 22, 2017 Krissy rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: book2film, pgs-300-399, tagged-classics, audiobook, audible-library

I know this book is loved by many but I found it extremely boring. Some of the fault could be put on the audiobook narrator. He wasn't bad it's just that he had a very soft and soothing voice which made me sleepy. I haven't seen the movie so I'm not sure how it compares. But for me it barely made a 2 star rating. ...more

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May 30, 2009 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, audiobook, boys, middle-school, adventure, adult, dystopia, classics, oprah, zz-2008

Sad post apocalyptic story of a boy and his father suffering the hardships of daily life.

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Apr 26, 2018 Amanda rated it liked it

Shelves: 3-stars, fiction, teacher-reads, classics, dystopian, pulitzer-prize, futuristics, ap-literature

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Oh, my thoughts on this book. I did not love this book and I could only best describe it as "meta of the post-apocalypse novel." I did get involved with the book, the memories, the unending slog of pages with no chapters that stood for the unending, never separated slog of their life now, but I never quite liked/loved it. I did love the small boy and his growth, but I felt his ending was too fast and sudden and 'perfect,' within 2-3 pages, of the sudden fall that befell him in the end ...more

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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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