15.8k reviews for:

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

3.92 AVERAGE

enteii's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

ianthesuffix's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad

Plot or Character Driven: Character

livibrenn's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

vanillabanana's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

_alessandra_'s review against another edition

5.0

dark sad slow-paced

raisin2402's review against another edition

4.5

dark reflective sad 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: Complicated

atari2005's review against another edition

5.0

mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Beautiful and miserable, all together not so hard of a read as you'd think.

uwu57's review against another edition

2.75

dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

fogboundsoul's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional medium-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: No

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I thought at the begging that this book was going to be pretty boring but I found myself reading nonstop, it was pretty intense and an enjoyable read.

randomprogrammer's review against another edition

4.0

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One of the better and more realistic apocalyptic novels I have ever read. Very grim and monotone, and you could really believe that this is how this world would function. I loved the author's refusal to use names. I gotta say that I absolutely hated the ending though, and it somewhat spoiled it for me. For such a bleak, realistic, and hard-hitting book to have such a forced, unbelievable, and happy ending was just too out of place and silly. However, I would still easily put this above other works such as The Parable of The Sower and Station Eleven.