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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Start date: April 1, 2013

Finish date: April 30, 2013

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#14 on Locus Magazines Best SciFi novels of the 21th century http://www.locusmag.com/2012/AllCentu...

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Jan 22, 2012 Jason Koivu rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction

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 ...more

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Dec 18, 2008 seak rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

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Jan 16, 2009 Marc V. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I generally do not like depressing dark stories but this was vintage McCarthy. I loved this book.

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Mar 07, 2009 Paula S rated it really liked it

I found this book very well-written and also very disturbing.

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Dec 17, 2014 Waterfall rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: apocalyptic, future, dystopia

The book was all right until the ending which I didn't like at all - it was just too pat and easy. ...more

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Jul 02, 2014 Jodi rated it it was ok

I don't know what all the hype is about. It was boring and predictable. I guess after all of the post-apocalyptic shows and stories out already, this one just didn't offer anything different. ...more

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