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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
tense
slow-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
Great book i just found it very slow. Last 30 pages were the best.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
For the majority of the book I felt like any shred of hope I had for them was gone. Everything that they encounter and don’t was just heartbreaking. The pacing, unfortunately, wasn’t for me. It felt a bit dragged (intentional?) but there were still a lot of memorable moments. The mother, the last bullet “to do the thing”, the constant terror so obviously felt by the boy, and how despite everything, the boy always chose generosity… humanity.
You could really feel that the man adored his son and would do anything for him right from the beginning with all of his “of course you can” responses. It’s hard to find hope living life in nothing but grey. The glimmers of color that can be held on to are that of their dreams and their fires. But both they must be cautious of. Too much color and this hope can bring danger. Dreams for the detachment of reality and fire for fear of being found.
“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever. […] You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
This book really intrigued me because of its writing style. Towards the middle, I was really hooked and thoroughly enjoying everything going on. I appreciated the boy’s emotional development and how events revealing the truth of society & mankind really shaped his character.
However, everything after that was UNBELIEVABLY boring. The back half was slow, repetitive, and predictable. I also searched up Cormac McCarthy midway and ????? apparently he writes without punctuation in every book because he just believes it’s better and has an extremely elitist attitude towards literature. That basically ruined the rest for me lol.
The Road was slightly above mid, and definitely isn’t life changing like McCarthy believes it to be.
However, everything after that was UNBELIEVABLY boring. The back half was slow, repetitive, and predictable. I also searched up Cormac McCarthy midway and ????? apparently he writes without punctuation in every book because he just believes it’s better and has an extremely elitist attitude towards literature. That basically ruined the rest for me lol.
The Road was slightly above mid, and definitely isn’t life changing like McCarthy believes it to be.
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Haunting, devastating, and completely absorbing. I couldn’t put it down.
One of the more stunning books I've read in some time. McCarthy uses some wonderfully descriptive words that sent me clambering for the dictionary, mouth agape at how astute and picturesque were the images he conjured. Deliciously bleak, but full of humanity. The style of narration follows the circumstances of the story's telling, using no chapter or part breaks, only paragraphs of various lengths each containing small vignettes, anecdotes, and tableaux--no quotation marks to offset the dialogue from the narrative of the landscape, making each word the whisper of dying people in a dead world. Nonetheless beautiful and satisfying. I need to get my hands on more Cormac McCarthy ASAP.
man i love when i'm not sure if an author everyone seems to like will ever work for me when i finally find a book of that author's that works for me, i just wanna be into everything
dark
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes