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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Oct 12, 2006
Pros: powerful, sad, thought-provoking, and chilling
Cons: a frightening post-apocalyptic view
Summary: The Road - Cormac McCarthyIn 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 23, 2013
Pros: Evocative and talented writing creates an addicting, grim world.
Cons: It ended.
Summary: No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 17, 2011
Pros: -Great story -Low priced book (in paperback at least)
Cons: -Dark (wouldn't recommend it for the kids) -Slow at first
Summary: Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is the story of a young boy and his father trying to survive in the rough post-apocalyptic wilderness. The two are traveling to the ocean and along the way encounter many dangers. The way this story is told is the most ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 26, 2010
Pros: -emotionally deep storyline
-easily become attached to characters
-highly detailed post-apocalyptic world
Cons: -VERY sad and gloomy book
-writing style is odd and sometimes confusing
Summary: I read this book in an Advanced Placement English class. Yes, I was REQUIRED to read this book, but that does not mean it was not an AMAZING book. Cormac McCarthy has delivered us a book that is so "dense", it is literally emotionally draining. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 20, 2010
Pros: Well written, great settings, you can truly relate with the charters.
Cons: There is to much violence for younger readers.
Summary: The Road is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by American writer ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 25, 2009
Pros: touching father-son relationship, the boy's altruism, McCarthy's writing
Cons: lack of quotation marks takes some getting used to, despairing backdrop
Summary: During my recent long (yet all-too-short) weekend in Massachusetts with my friends Erica and Art, the subject of movies came up often. As all three of us consider ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 11, 2009
Pros: Believable
Cons: Unrelievedly horrifying with only the faintest glimmer of hope at the end
Summary: 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): 6Number of named places in the book: 2Miles covered by ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 17, 2008
Pros: Beautifully written, tender themes in the midst of horror, father-son relationship.
Cons: Some shockingly violent scenes...
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 4, 2008
Pros: a year later i'm still realizing things that i didn't get at the time
Cons: the ending was slightly disappointing, but understandable
Summary: I’m not going to say much about this book except a few things. I wish I had written it. It’s almost fabulous. The reason it’s almost fabulous and not fabulous is because I was not thrilled with the ending, but the story was certainly worth the ride. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 22, 2008
Pros: Amazing how so few words can convey so much. The dialogue is chillingly effective.
Cons: Reading this will make you feel bad for a long time.
Summary: Whew! THE ROAD is a draining, exhausting, bleak, gut-wrenching, bleak, fast-paced, bleak novel. Did I mention it was BLEAK? The book is 279 pages and they fly by. I think I read the book in 4 hours...I could hardly make myself put it down. I wouldn't ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 29, 2008
Pros: The writing, the messages contained
Cons: Some "rules" of grammar are tossed aside, intentionally.
Summary: 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 California, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 11, 2008
Pros: riveting prose, suspenseful situations
Cons: how many times does the boy have to cry danger before his father listens
Summary: “My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you.” Cormac McCarthy's The Road begins with a man and his young son walking down a road in a post apocalyptic United States. The ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 11, 2007
Pros: This book is a pleasure to read.
Cons: Science fiction enthusiasts will find McCarthy's less genre-bound than other post=apocalyptic novels.
Summary: I picked up Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" sometime last summer on a friend's recommendation and read it in one or two sittings. For the following week, it remained in my mind like many of my favorite books tend to do. I have since recommended it to all my ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 9, 2007
Pros: Portrays what the world might come to.
Cons: Dialogue a bit too sparse and repetitive.
Summary: In the opening chapter of his book Dynamics of Faith Paul Tillich notes the following about the nature of man. He writes that “Man, like every living being, is concerned about many things, above all about those which condition his very ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 5, 2007
Pros: fabulous
Cons: none
Summary: The Road unfolds before the dumbstruck reader as a scorching, God-given masterpiece - regardless of your spiritual colouring and flavouring. After reading Cormac McCarthy's novel i was diagnosed with clinical depression. Still, let's not blame Mr ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 2, 2007
Pros: Great story telling, themes are well developed, interesting and quick
Cons: None
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 3, 2007
Pros: Draws you in immediately - simply worded and quick to read - literary fiction.
Cons: Very, very sad.
Summary: As I sit here slack-jawed after finishing `The Road' in two readings, I am in awe of Cormac McCarthy and his ability to capture the human spirit in a way no other author can. 'The Road' is at once horrifying, haunting and sad, and no book has made me ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 30, 2007
Pros: A quick-reading novel that seems more like a short story, compelling, terrifying, beautiful.
Cons: None.
Summary: I have been reading the The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which is the most recent Oprah’s Book Club selection. To prevent anyone from saying anything negative about Oprah Winfrey, let me remind you that she is a legend. Lots of people ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 15, 2007
Pros: Story of love and hope against all odds; writing style
Cons: None
Summary: 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 is ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 13, 2007
Pros: Well written, graphic imagery. Who doesn't like cannibals?
Cons: Dark, hopeless plot which only ends in misery. Dialogue is too sparse.
Summary: Mr. McCarthy is certainly a fine writer, there can be no doubt about that. I am not panning his book on the basis of his ability to craft a sentence, a chapter or a tale. However, this book left me feeling puzzled as to what I had just spent several ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 9, 2007
Pros: Hmmm...
Cons: Less than appealing, unoriginal
Summary: 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 ... read more
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