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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.
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Sep 23, 2013
Nancy
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really liked it
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Shelves:
literature,
dystopia
This is a dark and chilling novel which has a tension about it which means you just keep turning the pages. It is written in a very spare style with little punctuation. The sparseness of the writing matches the devastating bareness of the post-apocalyptic landscape which the man and the boy and walking through. You find yourself asking where they are going? They seem to have no end-goal - the only goal is to keep walking. It is a terrifying vision of a future where almost all humanity is gone, a
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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
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
I have had this book on my TBR list since 2012 and finally decided to give it a shot. I liked it just okay. I kept waiting for something major to happen. It was never anything major just a few small things. Even still though I gave it 3 stars cause it made what seems unimaginable into a world of believable. It would have gotten more stars had a major thing happened and/or it ended better. I was very disappointed with the ending.
May 30, 2009
Marla
rated it
really liked it
Shelves:
made-me-cry,
boys,
adventure,
middle-school,
young-adult,
audiobook,
classics,
oprah,
adult,
dystopia
Sad post apocalyptic story of a boy and his father suffering the hardships of daily life.
Brian read this for AP Literature and pressed me to read it before he has to turn it back in. It is a powerful story of love for a child and is full of symbolism. In a post-apocalyptic Earth, what would you do to save your child? What would you choose NOT to do, like share supplies with others, in order to save your child? How much is a life worth? And does humanity really have redeeming qualities? Some parts of the novel are horrific as the father and son travel and encounter other survivors, b
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The running sentences drew my attention away from the book and made me struggle to finish.
Example would be:
"the man picked up the bottle and looked at his son before walking over into the forest and unscrewing the cap and drinking from the bottle and putting the bottle down he coughed up blood but tried quietly as to not wake up his sleeping son" ...more
Example would be:
"the man picked up the bottle and looked at his son before walking over into the forest and unscrewing the cap and drinking from the bottle and putting the bottle down he coughed up blood but tried quietly as to not wake up his sleeping son" ...more
Aug 17, 2010
Kelly (Maybedog)
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Sep 11, 2010
Lisa
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Mar 04, 2011
Dugger
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Dec 29, 2012
Gaijinmama
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Jan 31, 2013
Kim DeCina
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Feb 14, 2013
Martha
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Mar 10, 2017
Carrie
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