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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

101 reviews

random19379's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Sexual violence, Murder, Suicide, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Racial slurs and Ableism

proceduralbob's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Gun violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Slavery, Cannibalism, Torture, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy

cstein's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Prescient, disturbing, and sad, occasionally funny, often beautiful, full of (human) nature and faith. Images that stick in your head. Not as completely bleak as I feared and not as violent as some of McCarthy's other works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Pedophilia, Child death, Confinement, Medical content, Violence, Cannibalism, Torture, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Minor: Ableism

esov27's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Murder, and Suicide

bry97's review

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

Beautifully written story of a father and son at the end of the world. I love the way McCarthy writes and the way he maintains tension throughout. The world he builds is bleak and terrifying and yet the novel includes so much hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Slavery, Death of parent, Suicide, Death, Gun violence, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

perthalus's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

The Road speaks to me on many levels. To some extent I can compare it to my own life, especially due to how this was originally based on the author’s relationship with his son. I feel as if I am something in-between the father and the son. Carrying my fire through a grey and hopeless world, uncertain who is a good guy and who is a bad guy. Like the father and son I argue with myself about whether I’d be better off helping somebody or looking out for myself. It’s a cold ash-covered world.

The way the world is described, and the characters journey through it, feels like it draws from feelings of depression and anxiety, which I can definitely relate to. We get pages of hopeless grey landscapes full of death and destruction, only to have it broken up by an intimate moment, surrounded but also contained in those feelings. A glimpse of hope.

Every description and conversation feels real, and they never stop no matter how slow or quick the pace goes. It’s a constant, seemingly endless journey, yet every moment is to be savoured and held. The tension of reward and punishment is constantly pulling you to the following page, just to read about every night spent watching the road, every tin of pears and every secret door, because you can feel it.

Maybe I’m biased because of the person who recommended it to me, or because this is the first buddy read I’ve ever done, but this may be my favourite book I’ve read so far. It deserves every bit of praise it gets, it’s beautifully haunted, hopeless yet so incredibly hopeful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Gore, Cannibalism, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death, Rape, Vomit, Slavery, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

meganfletcher's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cannibalism, Vomit, Murder, Death of parent, Suicide, Violence, Death, and Body horror

geejee's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment and Suicide

linds_jacks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Murder, Physical abuse, Cannibalism, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, and Slavery

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicide, and Torture

The general dark/depressing tone of the book makes even minor mentions of disturbing topics potentially incredibly triggering.

corruptednatz's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

This is an okay book for the dystopian genre. I never got a chance to figure out what happened to the world and what let the people to such savagery. Kinda heartbreaking the more they explore and the less they find; they slowly start to come to terms that there’s nothing left in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide