The Road (Oprah's Book Club) | Cormac McCarthy | Definitive. Courageous. Emotional draining....

The Road (Oprah's Book Club) | Cormac McCarthy | A Fantastic Read

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	The Road (Oprah's Book Club) Cormac McCarthy Vintage Books, 2007 - 287 pages average customer review:based on 1495 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist

A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-?and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

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Definitive. Courageous. Emotional draining. First classic of the 21st Century

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R348K16VGAO7D4 A searing tale of a possible future for all. Relentless, emotionally challenging, genre defying and both life affirming and changing. If ever your sense of the presence or absence of God is going to be challenged in a book- this is it. The Road

A Fantastic Read

I'm always skeptical of you-won't-be-able-to-put-it-down recommendations, but in this case it held true. I read the book in a weekend and was enthralled the entire way. McCarthy creates a narrative tension that's hard to break away from. The second part of the recommendation was, "Read it before the movie comes out." So I'll second that -- you've got until late November to get through this one.

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Intense

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One of the most intense reads I have come across in years. If you are a parent be prepared...this will rip your heart out...but you won't be able to stop. Not for the faint of heart, but a great read that will make you rethink what is really important in your life, and what you might we willing (and able) to do to protect the people that you love.

Post-apocalyptic scrambled eggs?

Riddled with implausibility and grammatical errors (even outside of its informal style), The Road leaves much to be desired. Though it's laden with ample suspense, the book ultimately fails to explain itself; trivial flashbacks serve as cheap teasers to the origin of an apocalypse that is never revealed. The end seems contrived, as does the Christ-like figure embodied by "the boy." Worth the read if you're not craving too much enlightenment. I'm hoping that the movie fleshes out a fuller, more consequential story.

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