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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Start date: September 2, 2014

Finish date: September 30, 2014

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Nov 27, 2010 Tien rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, usa

I thought how boring could it be, when I first read the description, it's only about a man and his son trudging along 'The Road' post-apocalyptic... Err, nothing really happens and there ain't really anybody else. But how did such a book get such a fantastic reception from the world?

Well, I couldn't be totally completely wrong, nothing really happened and there really isn't anybody else out there BUT... descriptions of the post-apocalyptic world and one's feelings and of the relationship of fath ...more

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Apr 20, 2017 Lauren rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2017

I really wanted to like this book, so I gave it more play than I normally would for a book that made me physically ill. Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age. McCarthy is a talented writer, but that's really the only positive thing I can say about the novel. What a bleak, ultimately pointless story of gratuitous macabre and abject despair. One star. ...more

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Apr 20, 2009 Cheryl rated it really liked it

Shelves: pulitzer-prize

Cormac McCarthy's command of the language is amazing. This was a difficult read because of the dark nature of the post-apocalyptic situation at the center of the story. Nevertheless, the prose is wonderfully rich, lyrical, poetic. ...more

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