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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Uncontrollable sobbing. I need a few days to recover
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Dystopian and bleak.
I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The Road is a bleak yet profoundly moving post-apocalyptic novel that follows a father and his young son as they journey across a desolate, burned-out America. This is =not= a book that I'd recommend for the Book Club. The Road is a bleak yet profoundly moving post-apocalyptic novel that follows a father and his young son as they journey across a desolate, burned-out America. The world has been devastated by an unspecified catastrophe—possibly nuclear—leaving the landscape covered in ash, devoid of most life, and inhabited by scattered survivors, many of whom have turned to cannibalism. McCarthy’s sparse, poetic prose and the novel’s stripped-down narrative create a haunting meditation on survival, morality, and the enduring power of love in the face of total devastation.
I now see why this is deemed a classic. A short but memorable read.
I think The Road is a piece of artwork. Cormac McCarthy wrote this novel beautifully, every detail felt necessary to the story, and i felt compassion for The man and The Boy.
dark
emotional
reflective
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
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Very slow the first 50 pages but does get going. Very sad and I don’t know if I’d recommend it but I did enjoy it in a perverse way. Read it on a beach in Albania so maybe not the correct setting for a gloomy read!
This is probably the most heart-wrenching book I've ever read. It made me do two things I rarely do when reading:
First, it made me read it in three seatings, something I'm almost never inclined to do. Despite it's bleak setting and soul crushing darkness veiling the book's world I found it absolutely beautiful, almost poetic.
Second, it made me cry. The father and son relation touched a chord in me, as a new father of a baby son and as the son of a recently deceased father I found it hard not to put myself in the position of the characters and feel their pain. I especially felt the man's futile struggle to survive another day, feed the boy, keep him warm at night, keep him safe, while knowing his own time is short.
The prose is minimalistic and the dialogue is sparse, bidding well with the dead world the book conveys.
Overall this is a new favourite book of mine.
First, it made me read it in three seatings, something I'm almost never inclined to do. Despite it's bleak setting and soul crushing darkness veiling the book's world I found it absolutely beautiful, almost poetic.
Second, it made me cry. The father and son relation touched a chord in me, as a new father of a baby son and as the son of a recently deceased father I found it hard not to put myself in the position of the characters and feel their pain. I especially felt the man's futile struggle to survive another day, feed the boy, keep him warm at night, keep him safe, while knowing his own time is short.
The prose is minimalistic and the dialogue is sparse, bidding well with the dead world the book conveys.
Overall this is a new favourite book of mine.
i get it but im also like we....didn't have to write the dialogue like that. no it's not fluffed and yes it's very to the point, but the entire conversation going question answer question answer and in such a way that made me wanna tell them to stfu.
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No