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Loading... The Roadby Cormac McCarthy
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This was another one of those, 'I read it in a day but when I was done I couldn't tell if I liked it or not' books. It was just so damn depressing, and the author's style isn't my favorite but it did mesmerize me and convince me to want to see the upcoming movie... I just hope the movie is a little more uplifting. ( )Depressing, yet somehow strangely intriguing. I had to keep reading to find out what the heck was going on. You really root for the main characters in their struggle. I hate to say it, but I was underwhelmed. The book was engaging and interesting to read, for at least the first 50 pages, but the story never seemed to go anywhere. I was also offended by the [LIGHT SPOILER] scene when the man and son come upon an infant's corpse that has been cooking over a fire to be eaten. [/LIGHT SPOILER] How pointlessly gratuitous can you get? As a reader, I'd already been lead to understand what the other "travelers" were doing for food; this scene seemed pointless but for the gross-out/shock value. The suddenly-happy ending came out of nowhere, and though I'm sure one could go on about symbolism and McCarthy's intended message, on the most basic level I can't say I enjoyed this book. The trailer I saw to the upcoming film of this book intrigued me. The film appears to be a special effects vision of post-apocalyptic battles between ragged survivors and cannibalistic refugees from the Deliverance hillbillies.The book, fortunately, is nothing of the sort. Yes, it is a tale of post-apocalypse survival, but McCarthy has crafted an amazing character study where all the characters are faceless (symbolically) and nameless (literally). Don't expect neatly wrapped up plot lines, McCarthy's forte has always been experiencing a moment in time A GREAT FATHER AND SON STORY ABOUT SURVIVAL, COURAGE AND INNER STRENGTH...
“The Road” is a dynamic tale, offered in the often exalted prose that is McCarthy’s signature, but this time in restrained doses — short, vivid sentences, episodes only a few paragraphs or a few lines long, which is yet another departure for him. “The Road” offers nothing in the way of escape or comfort. But its fearless wisdom is more indelible than reassurance could ever be. Through his scaled-down view of a post-apocalypse American east, McCarthy has discovered a rich, engrossing landscape that is distinctly his own. It’s a horrible pleasure to watch the father and his son make their way through it, even as one remains unsure whether it would be more humane to hope for their survival or hope for their gentle death.
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