The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Book Review: Haunting
Summary: 5 Stars
The best book I've read for ages - heartbreakingly sad and thoroughly gripping. I couldn't stop reading, despite a mounting sense of dread that something terrible was about to happen throughout. Of course the terrible thing has already happened - the world is pretty much ended for human beings, and all that keeps the two main characters going is the deeply moving love they have for each other in the midst of a world gone totally bad.Book Review: Outstanding!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never written/sent a review on any book - yet I read voraciously, eat them up! However, I have just discovered McCarthy, and read 'No Country for Old Men' and then this - 'The Road.' And, I am sending a review because this is the only book I have read that truly deserves the effort, if only to spread his writing further. It is the most powerfully evocative book I have read to date, and the memory of it will stay with me. Books, yet also reviews are highly personal and subjective, but I will be sharing this discovery with friends and book lovers. And on the strength of these two, I have already ordered 5 of his earlier works. I am hooked.Book Review: an engaging read
Summary: 5 Stars
really enjoyed this- in fact a lot of it reminded me of my daily trudge to work! only the characters in the book only did the trudge bit without the added apocalyptic nightmare of sitting at your desk and the end of the trudge.
I read it in two days (no mean feat for me)and it has left me with an appetite for similar works. someone recommended Earth Abides by George Stewart so i'll try that next. * update* my girlfriend said this 'review' was "glib and self satisfying" and said nothing about the book, so here is some more:- The book evoked realistic images of a bleak and grey landscape with a real feel for wondering whether the never-ending quest for the coast was worth the risk/reward. That the author created full and engaging characters that you cared about while keeping them un-named and in a thoroughly bleached out environment is a testement to his writing style. The short stabbing journal format lends itself perfectly to the grim journey. In short - wonderfully evocative.
Book Review: The core of humanity
Summary: 5 Stars
The plot has been covered in other reviews here. I just want to say that far from finding it bleak and depressing, the message I took from the story was that 'where there is life there is hope' - the central tenet of humanity.
All of us are born with a spark that's meant to burn till we can hold on to life no more, no matter how we try. For some that spark is doused by mental illness or the incapacity to bear life's burdens but I've no doubt that it burns pure in every newborn.
McCarthy, I believe, lets the son show his father and the rest of us that lesson. Sure his father wants them to stay alive no matter what he has to do to achieve that - the son believes life is only precious when your love can carry others, 'strangers' through the fire.
A beautiful, inspiring book.
Book Review: Another step into the darkness that is the human condition.
Summary: 5 Stars
You have to understand something about this book before you read it. It is not the kind of book that you can't put down because you need to know what happens next, you already know what happens next and the reason you dont put the book down is because you need to have it confirmed.
As you turn the pages there is no real change in pace just the slow revelations of an uncontrollable life which the father and son live through for the simplest of reasons; They have no other choice. The place and time doesn't matter the only thing that matters are the people who we know nothing about and yet find ourselves associating with. The comparisons to modern day society are sometimes hard to see but they are there, our morals and ethics, the things we do to "survive" and the way we justify them.
When you start this book the first thoughts are what happened, how did it happen and how would I make it through. By the end you ask yourself "Am I still the good guy?"