The Road by Corman McCarthy is a completely different book with our traditional practice. In which McCarthy imagined and painted the painful future of earth which is not so far. Yea, it is true that he depicted the cruel forthcoming future and the fate of human being and their civilization. So that, one can demands it as a book of environmental consciousness. But in truly speaking, this book gifted us far more beyond that. He put the words in the little boy’s innocent question which remind us about basic ethic towards humanity and nature, love and responsibility toward life and others, morality and faith.

The story begins with a journey in a road. Some unknown mischievous disaster destroyed the earth and its kids. The father and the son were walking through the road towards south with a hope of life. The climate got changed drastically. Sometime it is rain cat and dog; sometimes the cold is too hard enough to crack stones and the cold wind blew very fast freezing the ribs. As they go forward, they were maze by the dead burnt woods and its loneliness, no leaving creature in the road. Throughout the journey they struggled for food. Sometime they manage it from abandoned houses or grocery. Sometimes they met with the people sacred from this certain changes and not coming out in daylight fearing the survivors. The earth is in total disorder. No body believed any body. Everybody was looking for food like a long hungry animal. The child distorted by the terrible pain of watching an infant roasting in spit. It looked like all growth halted.

The father was very much concern about his kid and he was ready to save him by hooks or crooks to with a hope to give him a new life. But he is not bother about other. The child questioned in different moment with his different actions which hurt him. Once the man advised the kid not to be concern about everything, but the child replied that he was the one who should take care of all.

Though the survivors were few, but still they could be united to face the situation. But everybody was thinking about themselves. Everybody was trying to get food and cloths from others, fearing others and disbelieving others. So humanity came down to beastliness.

But at the end McCarthy showed the light of hope. After long journey with him prolong coughing, the father will die and the son will come and stand at “The Road” with a feeling of hopelessness and stunned by leaving of ‘papa’. Then a ‘good guy’ will notice him and will give him an opportunity for new life by taking him in his family's shelter. ( )

While I enjoyed the book, I didn't get much out of it as many others. I must have missed something because I never would have guessed it to be Pulitzer material if I hadn't known.

I was annoyed with the conversations the father and son had, having children myself I cannot imagine being able to answer a question with a single statement and say Okay? Okay. and be done with it. I believe the sparseness of the conversations lead to the bleakness of the novel, but it just wasn't for me.

I didn't have an issue with the punctuation, but I did from time to time have to re-read some of the conversations so I could follow who was saying what.

It was a quick read and I did enjoy the description of the world around the characters, it did promote a gray and leak world in which they were trying to survive. ( )

When I first started reading the The Road I had a feeling that I would not like it. It started out pretty slow and it took me awhile to get use to the format. I also had trouble with the fact that the two main characters were not given names. But in the end the book was good.

It is really hard to explain this book. McCarthy takes the reader on a post-apoticapic journey where a father and his son (who seems to be pretty young between 8 or 10) are trying to travel to the south to escape the winter. They have to be careful because not everyone is peace loving and there is no food or clean water anywhere.

When I got into the story, the fact that McCarthy never gave the characters name made the book more personal. I was able to pictures the main characters in my mind and I started to relate to them. The relationship that the father and son shared was special and you could see the depth of love that the father felt.

Most books are written in chapter format. But McCarthy diverges from this style. Instead it is paragraph form. Each paragraph is a different event or point. I have never come across this style this before. McCarthy worked the style very well. ( )

In a post-apocalyptic America, a man and his young son try to make the journey south, where they hope to find a life where they can do more than just survive. At the moment, they are just about managing to stay alive in a barren world where houses and stores have been plundered and ruined, and every stranger they encounter is a very real threat.

This is an amazing book. The relationship between the man and the boy - who remain unnamed throughout the novel - is totally believeable. They are both all that the other has, and the man will do anything to protect his son, while the son puts all his faith and trust into his father. The pair show the lengths that people will go to to survive, while still trying to hold onto their humanity; they also show the reserves of strength and thought that people find in such situations, where they are having to consider their every action and deed.

The bare landscape is also portrayed magnificently, and is frighteningly imaginable. The language is very clean, with no unnecessary words; the barren-ness of the prose reflects the barren-ness of the country.

I was drawn into this book from the very first pages, and didn't want to put it down. I was anxious to get to the end to find out what would be the fate of these two characters, but when I finished it, I wished that there was still more to read.

A very thought provoking novel that will stay with me for a long time - highly recommended. ( )

A fine novel, worthy of the Pullitzer prize it won. Most has been said already in the reviews below. However, I definitely disagree with those saying this book leaves "no hope". If you pay some attention to what happens during the story, you'll see the book shows as much hope as life itself. Highly recommended. ( )