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No color. No beauty. Music is meaningless. Art is pointless. Sounds mask danger and no one is to be trusted. Not even family.
The characters have two bullets and few choices for their use: Survive for the next day or end the horror of living with no hope no food no government no safety.
This novel is classic McCarthy. Antihero characters. Ambiguous endings. Harsh settings. And cannabalism.
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I remember having to take those advanced English courses back in High School. I was drafted because I did pretty well in a Creative Writing course, and the English department had an authoritarian system that forced the unwilling to take more English. All whining aside, I actually came to enjoy analyzing stories and earning the nickname "misanthrope".
The only reason to inflict my sufferings on the rest of the world is that "The Road" is the first book in my life that would have inspired me to write a paper of my own volition. I want to write about the lessons in the book, the underlying meanings, and even search for symbolism that I am not sure the writer actually meant to put in there, but are sufficiently plausible to satisfy an English teacher looking for symbolism and archetypes and whatnot.
I have read the 1-star reviews to see why the writers felt this excellent book deserved just one. The poor grammar and punctuation were so much a part of the book that I did not notice them. And I'm the sort of person who notices all of the errors in the emails of others, and cannot catch 100% of my own until I re-read my messages after sending. I noticed some idiosyncratic words and grammar, but they belonged to the characters, not to the author. I almost want to shout to the negative reviewers that they must have missed the obvious lessons in the story. They must have missed the fact that there are scenes of great horror, but this is not a horror story.
More than anything, I want to cast a 5-star vote for this gook. Technically, it may not be great, but it is awesomely good. I am inclined to create an entirely new class of "good" for this book.
'Nuff said
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Ive never written a bookreview before.
Never?
Never.
Okay?
Okay.
I had to force myself to finish this book, and I can't say I'm glad I did. Like the Seinfeld epidsode where Elaine was forced to watch "The English Patient" a second time, I kept thinking, "Oh, just die, die already!"
Maybe I'm a prude because I hated the way the author took liberties with the English language, and not, to me, in a positive way. I kept wondering why he chose to write his book in English when he so seemed to hate its rules.
Besides that, I couldn't identify with the characters, or their plight. If, as the book claims, the bleak landscape had been this way for years, why are they just now seeking some other venue? Whatever.
I really hated this book. For others who feel the same, I recommend "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt. Now THAT's a novel worth reading.
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This book is hands down the worst book I've ever read in my entire life. Boring, poor writing style, choppy sentences, poor descriptions of time and place. Do not buy the hype on the book. There is no point to any of it. It is a page turner mostly because you keep turning the page hoping something actually happens. I can sum it up like this: Man and boy walk on road avoiding a handful of "bad guys" (any confrontations in this book are lame) while running out of food and water and then just when you think all hope is lost they find some food and water. Then, they start walking again to some unknown destination while running out of food and water. There isn't even a logical ending to this. Waste of time and money.
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This is a great book that is also an absorbing and easy read. The brutal and brilliant simplicity of the book is remarkable. McCarthy imagines the world after the nuclear apocalypse in which everything is stripped away and then asks, "what's left?"
In part, the answer is the kind of evil that is resurgent in McCarthy's other books and that is best captured by Golding in "Lord of the Flies" when he imagines children on a Pacific Island stripped of civilization. McCarthy paints a picture of scavengers and cannibals, treating chained slaves like meat on a hoof. But the rest of the answer comes from the father's love for his 10 year old son born right after the apocalypse. This child is far more angelic than the children imagined by Golding, mostly because he is raised by the father and invested by the father with everything that seems good and noble in human nature. The symbiotic and redeeming love between father and son, and the portrayal of this relationship as the bedrock for all of human civilization, is the theme of the book.
Much of the book concerns the day to day job of survival, and the father's remarkable cleverness in getting through each day. But ultimately, the book also concerns the father's limitations. The fixation on survival strips him of all ability to trust or to act like one of the "good guys" that he and his son talk about. Also, the new man is going to have to leave the road entirely and find a way to survive on the land. The father seems unable to cut his connection with this dangerous artifact of the pre-apocalyptic world, whereas the son and those he ultimately must ally with are more willing to live entirely away from the road.
The writing style brilliantly fits the themes of the book. It is maniacally spare -- like Hemingway on steroids. He never even uses quotation marks. Yet it is always clear who is speaking. And while spare, the language is at times extraordinary poetic, particularly the concluding paragraph.
It will be interesting to see how this book is received in literary circles. I think it confirms McCarthy's reputation as a great American writer.
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