The Road (Oprah's Book Club) | Cormac McCarthy

The Road (Oprah's Book Club) | Cormac McCarthy | Just a good book!

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The Road (Oprah's ...

	The Road (Oprah's Book Club) Cormac McCarthy Vintage Books, 2007 - 287 pages average customer review:based on 1563 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The reason we learn to read

This book is all about being human and that is a big subject to take on. It is as frightening as any horror novel I have read and as inspirational as any religeous text could hope to be. It is bleak and colourful, uplifting and devastating. When I finished it I felt like I had been run over by a truck but wishing I could thank my first grade teacher for teaching me to read. My God, what an amazing book.

Just a good book!

I'm not going to write an essay on McCarthy's 'The Road.' It does flow and you could possibly finish it in one sitting which I found great. You do develop an understanding of the boy and the man and although they don't see eye to eye on the way to deal with outsiders, you want to side with both of them. Worth the read.

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The Road - A Post-Apocalyptic Classic

Cormac McCarthy's writing is different then nearly any other writer out there today. Some find his style a bit disarming and cannot get past the narratives that don't include speaker names or quotation marks. I say, if you can get past the unusual style, you are in for a visual and intellectual treat.

This book us unlike any of McCarthy's prior novels and is no where near "No Country For Old Men" in style. This tale of a nameless father and son wandering the wastelands of a long destroyed America is one of the most real and tender post-apocalyptic depictions I've ever read. There is no need for explanations of why or how - the reader is simply thrown directly into the "world" these two characters find themselves in. They are in a world with little food or shelter and have no idea where or why they are moving towards "the coast".

It reads quickly but leaves quite an impression. I will be very curious to see if the film version does this great novel any justice.

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