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Feb 01, 2012
Stefan Yates
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Dark, bleak, depressing, heart-breaking and utterly fantastic. Cormac McCarthy has created a post-apocalyptic world that has been entirely devastated of all things good. Life as we know it has dwindled down to walking the earth in search of food, shelter and the dream that somehow, somewhere is a place that has not been devastated and covered in ash. The characters are so realistically rendered that you feel like you have actually gotten to know them well before the novel's end. A great thought-
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It was my first time to read the authors book in English. I haven't read his books even in Japanese before. My friend from Texas recommended the book to me and the story was very futuristic and scary. Even so, it was hard for me to put the book down.
I don't want to think about what would happen at the end of this world, but the book describes it very well. I really hope at the end of this world even if people won't find anything to eat, the cannibalism won't happen.
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It was my first time to read the authors book in English. I haven't read his books even in Japanese before. My friend from Texas recommended the book to me and the story was very futuristic and scary. Even so, it was hard for me to put the book down.
I don't want to think about what would happen at the end of this world, but the book describes it very well. I really hope at the end of this world even if people won't find anything to eat, the cannibalism won't happen.
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Mar 16, 2013
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Extremely bleak story of attempt at survival. Although story implies plot which was not present. Best read in one of two sittings, not in small chunks.
Jan 17, 2012
Alyssa
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