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Loading... The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008)by Cormac McCarthy
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I was very excited to read The Road. I had heard such great things. I wanted to love it. I did not get what I wanted. The Road had a great premise, real emotional pull and some very appalling cannibalism scenarios. You really cared about the unnamed characters and what was happening around them. Unfortunately, it was also slow, had no regard for proper punctuation and the ending was without fulfilling resolution. The lack of quotation marks and the inconsistent use of apostrophes in contractions distracted me from being fully submerged in the story. For me, it was just okay. (  ) JennSicu | Jan 6, 2010 |  It's dark and depressing, but impossible to put down. McCarthy draws you into the story of two survivors of what seems like the end of the world. It is believable, it hurts to read because you care so much for the nameless man and his son. The dialogue is bare and asks for interpretation by the reader. Despite its depressive style, this is a deeply humane book, it leaves you with hope, not despair. Excellently written, this is a must-read. (  ) petterw | Jan 5, 2010 | In a post-apocalyptic world, McCarthy really pares down his style and story to the essentials. His style mirrors the plight of the two main characters (father and son): surviving on the barest of needs. The overall tone is very dark, but there are enough small, yet timely, triumphs to infuse hope to both characters and readers. It exposes a basic view of humanity that is both frightening yet fascinating. It's my first reading of McCarthy. It definitely draws me to read more of his works. jhillman | Jan 2, 2010 | It must be so difficult to inject humanity into the post-apocalyptic, yet McCarthy manages that with this story of the fraying relationship between a man and his son. His language is remarkably pared back, but generally highly effective; only, occasionally I found myself drifting through paragraphs and not paying attention. ( ) soylentgreen23 | Jan 1, 2010 | I'm happy.I finished this book without committing suicide! Talk about depressing. I think Cormac must have taken a writing course where they challenged him to write a book without any hope. Well, he did it with this one. Now recognize I truly appreciate McCarthy's talents. Not only is the world these people populate bleak and barren, so is the prose. Everything about and in this book is consistently bleak, barren and without hope.If someone recommends this book to you it means they don't like you. ( )1  Peterabun | Dec 31, 2009 | 
 “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. Post-apocalyptic fiction isn't automatically better when written by Cormac McCarthy, but he does have a way of investing genre clichés with fine gray tones and morose poetry. “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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