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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
A book so good it made me get back on goodreads in anticipation of finishing it
This is gonna be a long review I think
I was hesitant coming into the road. I knew that McCarthy has written some brilliant novels, but this was my first dip into his works and I was worried that the brutality of the novel would be extreme. Instead, I found a book that—while certainly brutal—was, at its core, about endurance and hope.
The road, in its core, is a series of contradictions. A father and son are trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world. The father is trying to keep his son alive, but also keeps a gun close on hand to shoot his child with should the child be captured by ‘the bad guys’.
There’s a constant tension underlying the novel at every turn—every house they enter to search for food has a risk of having people in it, ready to fight for their survival—and yet the tension is often resolved instantly, and without much drawn out. In one section, for instance, the boy is scared of going into the upstairs, and pleads with his father not to go up there. The father wants to go to search for supplies, and there was a fear in the back of my head—while the father is probably right in that the likelihood of something being up there is slim to none, who knows what might be up there? And then finally the father says he’s going up, the scene ends, and we discover in the next that he found blankets up there. There’s a constant terror—who knows what could spell the end for this father and child—but bad things often happen randomly and when least expected.
Why I really liked it is below
Sorry if you read above thinking it would just be a lil review I tricked you
The real core of this novel, though, is the father and son themselves. The way the father cares so deeply for his son, so much so that he’s willing to live in hell for a while longer in order to spend more time with him, made me attached to the two instantly. There are constant moments, constant reminders of the care the two have for each other, with the son depending on the father’s practical knowledge and applications as much as the father depends on the son to keep him going and stop him from giving up.
So yeah, I thought it was good. Id recommend this to anyone who’s alright with the occasional gruesome depictions of things happening in a world that’s fallen apart, and who’s willing to put up with mccarthy’s lack of punctuation or general grammar rules. It’s good
This is gonna be a long review I think
I was hesitant coming into the road. I knew that McCarthy has written some brilliant novels, but this was my first dip into his works and I was worried that the brutality of the novel would be extreme. Instead, I found a book that—while certainly brutal—was, at its core, about endurance and hope.
The road, in its core, is a series of contradictions. A father and son are trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world. The father is trying to keep his son alive, but also keeps a gun close on hand to shoot his child with should the child be captured by ‘the bad guys’.
There’s a constant tension underlying the novel at every turn—every house they enter to search for food has a risk of having people in it, ready to fight for their survival—and yet the tension is often resolved instantly, and without much drawn out. In one section, for instance, the boy is scared of going into the upstairs, and pleads with his father not to go up there. The father wants to go to search for supplies, and there was a fear in the back of my head—while the father is probably right in that the likelihood of something being up there is slim to none, who knows what might be up there? And then finally the father says he’s going up, the scene ends, and we discover in the next that he found blankets up there. There’s a constant terror—who knows what could spell the end for this father and child—but bad things often happen randomly and when least expected.
Why I really liked it is below
Sorry if you read above thinking it would just be a lil review I tricked you
The real core of this novel, though, is the father and son themselves. The way the father cares so deeply for his son, so much so that he’s willing to live in hell for a while longer in order to spend more time with him, made me attached to the two instantly. There are constant moments, constant reminders of the care the two have for each other, with the son depending on the father’s practical knowledge and applications as much as the father depends on the son to keep him going and stop him from giving up.
So yeah, I thought it was good. Id recommend this to anyone who’s alright with the occasional gruesome depictions of things happening in a world that’s fallen apart, and who’s willing to put up with mccarthy’s lack of punctuation or general grammar rules. It’s good