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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
Given its accolades, disappointing. Nothing much happens. Terrifying premise though.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
dark
mysterious
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:
No
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
emotional
mysterious
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:
Yes
an exellent company for someone who wants to keep feeling alone πΆπ»ββοΈ
First McCarthy book, though I love No Country for Old Men the movie. I'm impressed by how entertaining such a bleak book was. Apart from the encounters with other humans, which were maybe 20% of the book, it never felt like much was happening, but it was always interesting. I read somewhere that many of the conversations between the father and the son were verbatim from McCarthy and his son's conversations. Must have been a dull dinner table. Regardless, the tense moments were tense, the conversations were good, and the ending was worth pondering.
A beautifully heartfelt story of a parent's unshakeable love for their child. This is definitely a book that belong in the "modern classic" category. Beautiful prose that did an outstanding job of creating atmosphere and an at times quiet but incredibly moving story. This is one that will stick with me for a while.
I believe that the reason this book is so popular is that even in the midst of its poetic dystopic vision, it gives hope. Most of the while I was reading this, I was depressed and I think the hope this book holds out is one of the factors that helped me rise out of my own dark pit. It's that mix of hope, poetic prose using simple sentences (harkening to Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man & The Sea), and the dynamism of the relationship between the father and his boy that caught Oprah's eye and propelled this book onto the international bestseller lists.