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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

3.92 AVERAGE

dark emotional sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Reminds me of that time I played Fallout 1 and didn't realise you could change the speed, so everything took ages. Very tense but also sort of agonisingly slow. Luckily, he can write a sentence and that helped a lot.

Soft parenting 101

A fantastically gripping novel. I loved the simplicity of the writing and the dialogue between the man and the child.

Cormac, I wanted moremac :(

(but not more cannibalism). I feel so gray at the edges after reading this, and I can't say I would recommend!

challenging emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I thought this book was a solid read to hold me over for the week but it’s terribly unmemorable. I read reviews saying that it was kinda boring or uninteresting until the end where it was like a gut punch, but I feel that’s an unfair assessment, the quality level stayed the same throughout the whole book and overall it was okay to good but nothing I’d reread! It’s kinda like when you were a kid and it was library time and you were forced to pick a book even if you didn’t want one, so you kinda read whatever you choose on airplane mode, that’s what this book reminded me of, being on airplane mode. Not a bad book by any means but nothing great either, in all honesty.

deeply emotional and bleak. it’s very moving. even though i can’t relate to the father-son dynamic, i sensed the great love and trust between the man and his son. still thinking about this.

it actually reminded me a lot of “i who have never known men”, but the guy version.
adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark emotional sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Brilliant book.  Couldn’t put it down.  Horrifyingly possible