The Road in The Dusty Bookshelf

May 16, 2011 Anne (Booklady) Molinarolo rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: permanent-library, classics, great-literary-fiction, winter-2011-12, sci-fi-dystopia

The world is dying. A father and son are on a road traveling with a few other survivors. The sky spits grey snow. No animals have survived. The travelers have turned to cannibalism to survive. The boy’s mother has left; she suicides rather than going South with her husband and young son who is sick and hungry. McCarthy never tells the reader, whether Nature or Man has caused the world to die, he constructs a profound love story that is deeper than any other; the love of a parent for his child.

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Nov 10, 2012 Jamie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: dnf, dystopian-utopian

I tried to get into this book, but the style was just too dry for me. I was not fond of how the chapters and conversations were set up. There was no really a backstory as to how the world came to be the way it is (at least that I found but I did skip read a lot of it). Many may like this book but I need a bit more in books I read.

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Aug 06, 2017 Carol rated it it was amazing

OMG. So bleak. So real. No YA fantasy or sci-fi. A naked look at survival following a cataclysmic event. Anyone without a realistic view of possible futures - read this. Ground yourself?

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Jan 14, 2013 Michael Keenan rated it liked it

Oye! This may not have been the best book to read during the dead of winter and a global pandemic. It's just very grim, sad, what's-the-point-of-it-all story, and it takes place upon a bleak and dangerous landscape. The writing is poetic at times, not your typical post-apocalyptic novel. It's OK, but just be prepared for a dismal tale. ...more

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