Brandi K. (brandimichaelle) reviewed Life changing, life affirming on
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I've read a lot of books but this one is definitely Top 5 of all-time in my opinion. Such a haunting, sad story, one that I thought many times I couldn't bare to read more of. People have criticized it for its lack of punctuation and its near-absence of dialogue, but I found myself forgetting about all of that just a few pages into the story. It's a bleak story about the end of the world, where conversation and punctuation no longer matter; literally nothing matters except survival, yet the protagonists manage to hold onto a fundamental moral code. At first I couldn't wait to find out what happened to the world but then I realized, it doesn't matter what happened. Nor does it matter that almost nothing is mentioned of the world before its end. I'm the kind of person who wants to know everything but I literally stopped caring what happened.
McCarthy's depiction of the world is flawlessly consistent and horrifyingly believable. He pulls the reader right in. Through all this darkness and utter despair, there is this story of unyielding love between father and son. I've never read a story of such genuine love before. I finished this book months ago but I still think of it off-and-on every few days. I ask myself, "could I have survived? Could I have kept my sanity and morals? Could I have sacrificed so much for my own child?" It literally affected my outlook of the world; it made me greater appreciate life and what we have. It can all be gone in an instant with little explanation.
The best moment of the book is when father and son meet a fellow traveler on the road, an old man. The old man asks the father, "how would you know if you were the last man on earth?" Man, that's deep. READ THIS BOOK!
McCarthy's depiction of the world is flawlessly consistent and horrifyingly believable. He pulls the reader right in. Through all this darkness and utter despair, there is this story of unyielding love between father and son. I've never read a story of such genuine love before. I finished this book months ago but I still think of it off-and-on every few days. I ask myself, "could I have survived? Could I have kept my sanity and morals? Could I have sacrificed so much for my own child?" It literally affected my outlook of the world; it made me greater appreciate life and what we have. It can all be gone in an instant with little explanation.
The best moment of the book is when father and son meet a fellow traveler on the road, an old man. The old man asks the father, "how would you know if you were the last man on earth?" Man, that's deep. READ THIS BOOK!
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