Fantastic. Nerve wracking. Heartbreaking. Soul-searching. Beautiful.McCarthy is a masterful storyteller. His use of language, while spare but creative, captured me from page one. The thought of a post-apocalyptic world frightens me...I don't know if it would be as horrible as the world left in ...
Possibly the greatest post apocalyptic novel written. It has a sparse beauty to it.The relationship between the father and the child is well drawn.The last three pages are terrible. Americans with their happy(ish) endings!
I expected more of this book, it won a Nobel prize, but to me it was a string of unfortunate events with no real resolution.Not that I always need a book to have a happy end, but some sort of end would have been nice. I felt it just went on and on, until mister McCarthy ran out of ink.
I was very impressed. My first McCarthy. It's about a father and son who have survived a catastrophic event that appears to have wiped out most of humanity and most other creatures too. Some of the other survivors have turned to cannibalism.I can't recall being so powerfully affected by a book for s...
There are some books which literally sweep you of your feet and leave you gasping for breath. As one grows older and the reading palate more jaded, the chance of finding such a book becomes rarer and rarer; so the actual discovery of one is all the more delightful.The Road by Cormac McCarthy is suc...
There are 156 "okay" in the 307 pages of "The Road".One hundred and fifty-six. I mean, it's a substantial number.307 divided into 156 is 1.967. Hence, the term "okay" appears each 1.967 pages in this book. I know you will call me weird or simply very silly for counting how many "okay" you can find i...
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