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A review by karatics
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5.0
So I am not one for dystopias, in fact I just read the Hunger Games this year. So for my contemporary literature class, I had to read this book. Now I will be frank, if I didn't have to read it I probably would not have picked it up. But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy my time reading it. Well, "enjoy" is usually an adjective that I couldn't connect with this book, but I digress.
To put it simply, this book hit me to core. I didn't cry, but I can tell you that I didn't sleep until I reached its conclusion. Though McCarthy's world is desolate and unforgiving, I could imagine it without issue. My heart reached out to the Man and The Boy. The book's images are disturbing and its message is tittering on hopeless. Yet, I was still hopeful, the end of the novel giving me that bittersweet need for the human race to reform and prosper as it once had.
I am by no means the connoisseur of dystopia, but I do feel that if you are, I suggest you put this in your TBR if you already haven't been terrified by its world.
To put it simply, this book hit me to core. I didn't cry, but I can tell you that I didn't sleep until I reached its conclusion. Though McCarthy's world is desolate and unforgiving, I could imagine it without issue. My heart reached out to the Man and The Boy. The book's images are disturbing and its message is tittering on hopeless. Yet, I was still hopeful, the end of the novel giving me that bittersweet need for the human race to reform and prosper as it once had.
I am by no means the connoisseur of dystopia, but I do feel that if you are, I suggest you put this in your TBR if you already haven't been terrified by its world.