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55 out of 55 people found this review helpful.

THE ROAD: LOVE IN GLOOM

Date of Review:  Apr 15, 2007
The Bottom Line: This book gives us a view of what will happen if mankind continues on current paths of destruction.
Review: I don't always get to watch the Oprah Winfrey show but I happened to see it when she named "The Road" her book of the month. McCarthy is one of my favorite modern authors, so I immediately bought the book. One of the reasons I like McCarthy so much...
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  5.0

by: mike.holmes
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Story of love and hope against all...
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None
 
49 out of 49 people found this review helpful.

"The Road": Less Traveled, Now and Evermore

Date of Review:  Oct 12, 2006
The Bottom Line: Cormac McCarthy tries his hand at writing post-apocalyptic fiction in The Road. The resulting blend of grim worldview and ghastly subject is powerful and, above all, chilling.
Review: The Road - Cormac McCarthy

In some not so distant future the unnamed man and boy shamble slowly across a bleak, ashen landscape, headed toward the shore of an unnamed sea. They are two of the last survivors, a pair of dying souls making slow...
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  5.0

by: scmrak
Recommended to buy: Yes

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powerful, sad, thought-provoking, and...
Cons
a frightening post-apocalyptic view
 
47 out of 47 people found this review helpful.

Cormac McCarthy Creates a Bleakly Magnificent World in "The Road"

Date of Review:  Nov 17, 2008
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Stark, Horrifying, Tender, Beautiful.

Review: Since becoming a father in 2002, I've noticed that there are particular stories...particular genres...that I can't stand watching in films, or reading about in books. That genre is anything that puts a child--especially a boy--in peril. Those...
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  5.0

by: JediKermit
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Beautifully written, tender themes in...
Cons
Some shockingly violent scenes...
 
70 out of 71 people found this review helpful.

Oprah's New Book Pick- The Road by McCarthy

Date of Review:  Apr 9, 2007
The Bottom Line: The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a dull and boring mess.
Review: Oprah Winfrey has brought much joy to my life in the way of reading, as many of her popular Book Club selections have remained in my heart and soul since the day I read them. Wally Lamb wrote two masterpieces, She s Come Undone and I Know This Much...
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  2.0

by: lyoness913
Recommended to buy: No

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Hmmm...
Cons
Less than appealing, unoriginal
 
46 out of 46 people found this review helpful.

A Road Less Traveled

Date of Review:  Aug 2, 2007
The Bottom Line: "The Road" is a perfect example of modern fiction and proves that Cormac McCarthy may just be getting tuning more into his genius.
Review: This last year of high school I was forced into something I didn t necessarily have the time for but now that I look back on it and the books I read, it s safe to say I actually enjoyed being bullied into my school s Book Club. Now, while I didn t...
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  5.0

by: JiggyJay
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Great story telling, themes are well...
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42 out of 42 people found this review helpful.

Bleakly beautiful

Date of Review:  Jan 29, 2008
The Bottom Line: This story is heartbreaking and stunningly beautiful. McCarthy has a style and a way with words, that makes this sparse tale wondrous.
Review: This is a different kind of tale, as there is almost no story, as defined by a linear series of significant events, leading to a conclusion. What story there is: a man and his son travel across a post-Apocalyptic America, probably southern...
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  5.0

by: dolphinboy
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
The writing, the messages contained
Cons
Some "rules" of grammar are tossed...
 
34 out of 34 people found this review helpful.

Left Behind: Cormac McCarthy's Post-Apocalyptic Vision in The Road

Date of Review:  Oct 17, 2006
The Bottom Line: In which the author travels with Father Abraham.
Review: We don't (and we won't) know how it happened, but the world has pretty much ended; and now we are following a nameless man and his nameless son through a nameless country that we can only guess (based on what we observe, in relation to a battleworn...
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  5.0

by: plorentz
Recommended to buy: Yes

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The Book of Revelations circles back...
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I got lost in it. It could have gone on...
 
31 out of 31 people found this review helpful.

The future is now...

Date of Review:  Jan 2, 2007
The Bottom Line: McCarthy is one of the greatest writers of American fiction, and along with "Blood Meridian, this book is his masterpiece.
Review: "The Road" is a work of stunning, savage, heartbreaking beauty. Set in the post-apocalyptic hell of an unending nuclear winter, Cormac McCarthy writes about a nameless man and his young son, wandering through a world gone crazy; bleak, cold, dark,...
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  5.0

by: judy_lind
Recommended to buy: Yes

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An exquisite gem of a novel by one of...
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None whatever.
 
30 out of 30 people found this review helpful.

It may end in tears

Date of Review:  Oct 31, 2006
The Bottom Line: Not the McCarthy to start with for a newbie, but a good read all the same.
Review: Imagine after the Fifth Symphony, Beethoven (whose hearing at that point allowed him to play the piano like the master he had always been) wrote a very simple, 4 minute piece of music that even a child would be able to play. Anyone could play the...
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  4.0

by: paulsavage
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Plot, control, authentic father, young...
Cons
Nothing.
 
28 out of 28 people found this review helpful.

Carriers of the Fire

Date of Review:  Mar 11, 2009
The Bottom Line: As long as Earth nations retain nuclear weapons and "The Road" has not been realized, it will still be relevant.
Review: Here is how Harper's magazine might review "The Road" -- by the numbers. The last three numbers are of necessity speculative:

Number of people the man talks to (excluding God): 6
Number of named places in the book: 2
Miles covered by...
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  4.0

by: thewasp
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Believable
Cons
Unrelievedly horrifying with only the...
 

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