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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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gossamer_lens's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

It was dark and slow and very literary. I enjoyed the technical writing of it a lot and found one of the characters quite endearing. It was dark in a sort of blurred and in the periphery way which I quite liked.

It was a pleasure to read this as a buddy read with my bestie so I could have a companion in exploring this book. I think it's a modern day classic for a reason. I've spent a few weeks now trying to pinpoint the things I loved and the things I hated... And I guess I just cannot express it better than this. In the end the things I liked won over the things that grated and I couldn't place. And I just keep thinking about it so here we are with a higher rating then I could have imagined giving it after initially finishing.

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chinburgmitch's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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sofiam19's review against another edition

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challenging reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated

2.0

It’s just fine. I had higher expectations since I heard it was a great book but I felt bored through most of it but I didn’t hate it. I just don’t think I emotionally connected to the writing in any way.

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annaa_aaaaa's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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bea_frankie's review against another edition

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dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Haunting, hopeless, a beautiful story of life. Some may say it's too black and white, the dialogue is simple, the good people try to be good and the bad people are bad. If you think this way then I feel like you just missed the point of the greater beauty of this piece and the story of life, generation, pain and balance. Anyway ... the girls who get it, get it and I fear the girls who don't may not be able to read critically and thoughtfully.

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joshkiba13's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

"Where men can't live, gods fare no better . . ."

This was my second post-apocalyptic type story after The Stand, and it was quite different than that. In The Road we solely follow a man and his son, nameless to us.

I liked how it was left ambiguous what happened to humanity and the earth, what the cause was of such desolation. And I think McCarthy did a good job having flashbacks every so often of the man's life before the world changed so. The pain he went through and goes through throughout the story for his son's protection is tender and gripping.

It was mostly travels and aims to survive with sudden and unexpected bursts of violence or horrific presentations of the grisly lengths that other people went to to survive. The contrast between the man and boy's understanding of the world always made for interesting dialogue, the boy not understanding why they couldn't help other people or be with them.

I 100% recommend the audiobook format of this book, as McCarthy doesn't use quotation marks for his dialogue, and what dialogue there is is very simple, short, and capped of with he said's, so it'd be hard to tell which character is talking without the narrator doing distinct voices. Tom Stechschulte was phenomenal as a narrator; his voice for the young boy wasn't cringy, and his voice for the father was deep, gutterly, and emotional.

In the end I'm left feeling like not a ton happened, but it leaves you with questions to ponder and such. Descriptions of the landscape were often beautiful, and every once in a while we'd get a quote about humanity and hope that we're great, such as the one I opened with.

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emamoretti03's review against another edition

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dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Questo libro è un capolavoro che finisce istantaneamente nei preferiti. Una volta finito ( ma spesso anche durante la lettura ) ti lascia a fissare il soffitto pensieroso.
Tutto è perfetto in questo libro, la scrittura è impeccabile. È una scrittura secca, cupa, essenziale, non vengono neanche detti i nomi dei personaggi ma semplicemente uomo e bambino e ciò rispecchia il mondo post-apocalittico che viene descritto, dove niente ha più importanza se non sopravvivere. È talmente importante la sopravvivenza che porta a fenomeni di cannibalismo ma per l'uomo la vera importanza è il bambino, suo figlio. È un romanzo toccante, malinconico che ti angoscia tramite la descrizione di questo mondo non tanto lontano dal nostro. Con queste guerre in corso mi ha fatto veramente riflettere sul dove stiamo arrivando con questa società.

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