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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  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 | I wasn't expecting to like it, but I did. It took a little while to get used to the writing style but eventually I liked that too. It's bleak, it's slightly depressing, but a good read. This is the story of a father and son wandering around in a post-apocalyptic world trying to survive. There isn't much else to say, except that there are other people who have formed groups that take and eat people to survive. It's a rough world. I liked it. Yes it is depressing but I think ...more I wasn't expecting to like it, but I did. It took a little while to get used to the writing style but eventually I liked that too. It's bleak, it's slightly depressing, but a good read. This is the story of a father and son wandering around in a post-apocalyptic world trying to survive. There isn't much else to say, except that there are other people who have formed groups that take and eat people to survive. It's a rough world. I liked it. Yes it is depressing but I think it reminds us not to take advantage of what we do have. (  ) fufuakaspeechless | Dec 29, 2009 | The book was well-written but the story was rather depressing. ( ) gsmattingly | Dec 27, 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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It's my first reading of McCarthy. It definitely draws me to read more of his works.