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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

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T E N Z I N said: " Extremely dark and depressing.
The characters don't even have names which adds to the depression.
A boy and his father surviving in a dead world.
They even start to talk about death before the book even ends. And the boy believes they are going to die. Extremely dark and depressing.
The characters don't even have names which adds to the depression.
A boy and his father surviving in a dead world.
They even start to talk about death before the book even ends. And the boy believes they are going to die. A grim book about survival that REALLY changes the way you look at the world and how you live. And you how you are always dying. Slowly, but always. Each year, closer and closer, death creeps until it gets you.
The end of this book has no good ending. It just ends. Its very sad.
Would you commit suicide in a world where the only person you really trusted was a boy, a world where its all ash and dust, fires and bandits, or would you try to live? Though weary, moments of luck or providence seem to catch them before death’s grip can take hold. “When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.” A father and son are striving to survive a wilderness that used to be a country that used to be the most prosperous nation on earth.
All that is left is ash, floating and falling when the wind chooses not to breathe. This is the setting of The Road, a journey of survival only Cormac McCarthy could envision. Both the father and son are surrounded by a nightmare and are frightened by others when they sleep. They are always starving, always cautiously alert, only having a grocery cart with a few blankets and a gun with two bullets, either to protect against the cannibalistic humanity following their tracks or for the father to finish their lives before despair consumes them both. As they journey to the coast in search of something, the father tells the boy it is better to have nightmares because when you start dreaming, you know the end is near. McCarthy allows the reader to dream for them, striving on with them until a conclusion that whispers, under the pain and futility, of a sovereignty that is older than the destruction ever looming in the world. The Road is a brutally astonishing work.

yes I wrote a lot because this book was actually amazingly dark. ...more "

Jun 03, 2016 10:20PM · see review

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