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A review by elderlyemo
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4.5
This was my fifth time reading this cult classic and I can say with my full chest that I think I'm now FINALLY running out of stuff to highlight. The authors writing style divides opinion but personally I love how it snapshots a story and moves quickly through these brief and brutal moments in the characters lives, rather than dwelling on the mendacity of life like weather and how many different types of green the leaves in a particular tree are.
This is another book that grows up with you, and now that my child is older and the world is a lot greyer, different things jump out at me that I never used to notice and I love those kinds of stories, that are written for every person you have been and will be - it makes them, the definition of timeless.
So, why isn't it five stars? I HATE the ending! It should make me cry, it should cleave my soul from my body and leave me as desolate as the titular Road the characters walk throughout the story, but it's so anticlimactic and...calm? that it just pisses me off. I wanted to be wounded, not patted on the back.
This is another book that grows up with you, and now that my child is older and the world is a lot greyer, different things jump out at me that I never used to notice and I love those kinds of stories, that are written for every person you have been and will be - it makes them, the definition of timeless.
So, why isn't it five stars? I HATE the ending! It should make me cry, it should cleave my soul from my body and leave me as desolate as the titular Road the characters walk throughout the story, but it's so anticlimactic and...calm? that it just pisses me off. I wanted to be wounded, not patted on the back.