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It would be difficult for me to say that I enjoyed this book, per say, as it is one of the bleakest works I have read in my life. At times, like the Man and his Son, I felt compelled to give up. However, McCarthy set out to write a dark book about very dark times, and he has succeeded. The Road is a spare, deadpan, brilliantly executed foray into the Post-Apocalypse. McCarthy has a way with words I have rarely witnessed in modern authors.
Ranking and reviewing The Road is not easy for me ... I neither loathed it nor loved it, and thus do not fall into the prevalent, polarized camps of reviews. Well, maybe it's not so difficult to give it a middling rating actually, but processing my thoughts on it took a while.
I didn't at all mind McCarthy's stylistic idiosyncrasies, which fit the dystopian setting perfectly ... who needs apostrophes and quotation marks when one lacks food and water, faces cannibalistic threats, etc., for days o ...more
I didn't at all mind McCarthy's stylistic idiosyncrasies, which fit the dystopian setting perfectly ... who needs apostrophes and quotation marks when one lacks food and water, faces cannibalistic threats, etc., for days o ...more
I should probably rate this higher, but it was so depressing, and inconsistent. The father and the boy were so concerned about tainted food, but they drank any sort of water they came across. Isn't it possible the water was tainted also?
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Haunting... and yet a bit boring in parts... I really liked it, but admit to skimming through the last 1/3 of it.
Dec 03, 2010
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