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  • I peeled off the Oprah's Book Club sticker because it made me want to die, but the book was great.

  • This book reminds me of a discussion that took place on several occasions during my one of my classes this year. The central topic of the class was the Holocaust, and we talked a number of times about what we each would do in situations dealing with the time period. To an extent, I think it's a poin ... Continue

    This book reminds me of a discussion that took place on several occasions during my one of my classes this year. The central topic of the class was the Holocaust, and we talked a number of times about what we each would do in situations dealing with the time period. To an extent, I think it's a pointless question. No one can answer honestly whether or not they would be willing to hide someone in their own home, to avoid working with the Nazis, to avoid killing someone else if their own survival depended on the person's death. Without actually being in the situations, no one can predict what they would do. This book is a testament to that--the father's commitment to what he believes is right, and what he can, will, and must do for his son in their struggle to survive amid the ash-covered hell of a post-apocalyptic world. Poignant, scattered, sickening, and tender--a book to drive people apart and bring them together.

    

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  • I'm pleased to find an end-of-days novel that doesn't jerk me around emotionally. Not much in the way of a narrative, but I liked the religious and barbaric elements. What do you tell this kid if not that there's a heaven? Also I found myself nodding to McCarthy's assumption that civility is so peri ... Continue

    I'm pleased to find an end-of-days novel that doesn't jerk me around emotionally. Not much in the way of a narrative, but I liked the religious and barbaric elements. What do you tell this kid if not that there's a heaven? Also I found myself nodding to McCarthy's assumption that civility is so perilous: the enslaved women and catamites seem to me to be realistic consequences of lawlessness.

    

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  • Had read No country for old men in the summer of 2007 and was truly amazed by this book. Believe I need to reread The Road in a different frame of mind to appreciate it.

    

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  • Excellent. Does for the novel what Carlos William Carlos does for poetry. The picture painted is astonishing.

    

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  • Depressing...

  • but it was depressing because once I got into the book, the ending seemed too clean and too easily wrapped up. I just didn't buy into the ending.

    

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  • I'm not sure about this book. Well written for sure but more narrative than plot-driven. It might grow on me.

    

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The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

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