The Road in Pick-a-Shelf

Mar 21, 2010 BJ Rose rated it really liked it

Shelves: futuristic, dystopia, spring-challenge

I did not enjoy reading this, but once I started, I felt compelled to finish it. I think I knew that this would be my reaction, and that's why I delayed reading it!

This is really what I envision as a post-apocalyptic world; not just (just?!) the devastation and almost-total annihilation, but the reversion of the human being into the human animal. I have some pictures in my mind now that I really don't want there, but I was glad for the one ray of hope that McCarthy included, and an ending that ...more

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Sep 23, 2013 Nancy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, dystopia

This is a dark and chilling novel which has a tension about it which means you just keep turning the pages. It is written in a very spare style with little punctuation. The sparseness of the writing matches the devastating bareness of the post-apocalyptic landscape which the man and the boy and walking through. You find yourself asking where they are going? They seem to have no end-goal - the only goal is to keep walking. It is a terrifying vision of a future where almost all humanity is gone, a ...more

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Nov 27, 2010 Tien rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, usa

I thought how boring could it be, when I first read the description, it's only about a man and his son trudging along 'The Road' post-apocalyptic... Err, nothing really happens and there ain't really anybody else. But how did such a book get such a fantastic reception from the world?

Well, I couldn't be totally completely wrong, nothing really happened and there really isn't anybody else out there BUT... descriptions of the post-apocalyptic world and one's feelings and of the relationship of fath ...more

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Jan 11, 2010 Melinda rated it it was amazing

When I first started reading this, I only let myself read it in bite sized chunks. It's really beautifully written. Yeah, it's dark...but original. I know a lot of people have read and enjoyed it. One thing that bugs me about Mc Carthy is that he creates these wonderful characters and then puts them through hell...and if they even live in the end, they are scarred for life, bloody and typically missing some limbs. I'll keep reading him, though. I only have a couple more and then I'm done. I hear ...more

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Jul 26, 2009 Melissa Stebbins rated it it was amazing

Set in a post apocalyptic world where the only living things left are humans scavenging for whatever food they can find in abandoned buildings and towns or preying on their fellow survivors. Through this bleak world The Man and The Boy journey towards the coast.

I began this because when I had a few spare minutes picking the kids up and was enthralled from the start, so much so that I ditched the todo list when I got home and devoured it greedily. McCarthy's spare prose is mesmerising, bleak, bea ...more

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