The Road - Cormac McCarthy (E)*****
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The Road - Cormac McCarthy (E)*****
Terrible, wonderful, powerfully moving and astoundingly excellent. Everyone must read this book.
An unnamed father and son walking through a ruined burnt out world in the aftermath of some horrible (probably man made) apocalypse, scavenging for food and hiding from other humans who may be baby eating cannibals. But that's not what the book is about. The book is about people. Their relationships, their values, their hopes their brutal determination to live and their blatant and irrational disregard for their doom laded path.
A very short book.307 pages of large print and white space. No chapters just heart piercing dialogue and marvelously poetic descriptions and philosophic musings. Made me cry.
An unnamed father and son walking through a ruined burnt out world in the aftermath of some horrible (probably man made) apocalypse, scavenging for food and hiding from other humans who may be baby eating cannibals. But that's not what the book is about. The book is about people. Their relationships, their values, their hopes their brutal determination to live and their blatant and irrational disregard for their doom laded path.
A very short book.307 pages of large print and white space. No chapters just heart piercing dialogue and marvelously poetic descriptions and philosophic musings. Made me cry.
Yes this is the real "Little John" (or it could be "colin")
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Re: The Road - Cormac McCarthy (E)*****
Thank you. I will read this and possibly recommend it to the book group.
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Re: The Road - Cormac McCarthy (E)*****
You wont regret it. I could read it again now - specially now I know how it ends.
Yes this is the real "Little John" (or it could be "colin")
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