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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: audiobook, tagged-classics, book2film, pgs-300-399, 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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Jun 28, 2009 Rhonda rated it really liked it

Uhm.

Wow.

Initially I wasn't terribly impressed by McCarthy's incomplete sentences or the lack of quotation marks to indicate dialogue. It's not like I require quotations to show me where conversation is taking place... but I'm a Virgo and I like structure and order and all that bullshit... and OMG you'll never believe it, but apparently there's little to no structure or order in a post-apocalypse setting, so hallelujah to McCarthy for testing my literary boundaries! His characters aren't writers. ...more

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Jan 17, 2019 Jen Ifer's Inklings rated it liked it

Shelves: audio-books, library, read-in-2019, popsugar-2019-reading-challenge

This wasn’t horrible and I mostly enjoyed it, but there were some things that I had some glaring problems with. Overall, it’s a haunting story of survival in a post apocalyptic world and the things a parent will suffer in order for their child to survive.

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