Helpful Score: 3
I really enjoyed this book. I believe that it would be a great choice for a book club as the themes and questions about humanity would be an excellent discussion-starter. It is not a light-hearted book, but well worth reading.
Donna S. (mamanurse) reviewed The Road (Movie Tie In Edition)) (Vintage International) on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
At first, the first 50-40 pages, I thought this book was really depressing. A desolation of country, a father and his son walking, walking on the road to.....it was hard to tell where. But the deeper meaning of never losing hope finally poked through---The things that really matter....not money or more things than one can carry The love that is timeless and eternal. It was a pretty fast read, once I got into it.
Helpful Score: 2
I personally hated it. Beyond depressing!!
Helpful Score: 2
One of the best post-apocalyptic novels I've read. McCarthy stays true to form as in Blood Meridian. The ending was a bit weak and disappointing--has Hollywood infected McCarthy's bleak mojo?
An ultimate thought experiment in existentialism--what is your life when everything has been stripped away?
His odd blend of homebrew syntax, sparse prose, and his dependence on his readers' imagination and insight to fill in the blanks makes reading his work both a delight and a challenge.
As all his other works--HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
An ultimate thought experiment in existentialism--what is your life when everything has been stripped away?
His odd blend of homebrew syntax, sparse prose, and his dependence on his readers' imagination and insight to fill in the blanks makes reading his work both a delight and a challenge.
As all his other works--HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Anne H. (WyomingAnne) reviewed The Road (Movie Tie In Edition)) (Vintage International) on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
The Road is an extremely dark story about a boy and his father traveling to the coast after the planet has gone through a devastating event that has poisoned the air, killed most living things, and laid down a layer of ash across the countryside. For the remaining survivors, staying alive has become the focus of their existence. Although the story is a bleak one, once I began reading, I could hardly put the book down, finishing it in two days.
