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Everyone warned me it was depressing, but I read it anyway. I read it anyway because each and every one of those people also said The Road was really great. They were right. With masterstrokes of economic elegance, McCarthy colors his spartan, post-apocalyptic landscape, bringing a barren world to life in all its misery. The characters are developed only as deeply as necessary, showing admirable restraint by the author. Yet even with the barest of bare essentials a character could possess (they
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A pointless father and son wander through a pointlessly devastated wasteland, pointlessly. You do the rest of the work. - Cormac McCarthy
Jun 25, 2011
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I am amazed by the beautiful craftsmanship of such utter desolation in this novel. Really, really, really a good read.
I generally do not like depressing dark stories but this was vintage McCarthy. I loved this book.
Horribly depressing, hated the ending.
The greyest book I’ve ever read
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