The Road (edit title)

• Rated 4 stars

“This was so powerful and beautifully written it deserves a 5-star, but it is also utterly bleak and depressing, so I could only bring myself to give it 4. It's so good, worth the read, but don't expect to feel terribly uplifted after. ”

• Rated 2 stars

“The book was well written but I found it to be one of the most depressing and hopeless books I have ever read.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Review on its way!”

• Rated 5 stars

“this is the best book I've ever read it is a story of man and his son who are trying to get to the south to get to safety when the world has been burnt to the ground and the bad guys are trying to find and kill them. the story is very mistereous the book doesn't even tell you there names. the book has allot of horrors and is very depressing but is amazing my favorite book ever. ”

• Rated 4 stars

“Powerful, scary, realistic read”

• Rated 5 stars

“Oh my.....so intense, but so gripping you can't put it down.

It was difficult to imagine having to live like that and be in fear of others as well as not having any food or water.

What puzzled me was why they never did stay at a place they found was good and had some comforts.

Makes you appreciate what we have and hope it won't be taken away.”

• Rated 5 stars

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What a scary look at the world (at least I'm assuming it would be the world) during a nuclear winter. Or so it appears to be to me, though there is actually NO precise information given in the book to explain what has happened. The things you do know? There have been massive fires, ash is falling all over the place, there are hardly any people left, the father is sick, it's been a long time since anyone has seen a child, and it's been at least several years since whatever happened, happened.

Once you get caught up in the story, there are several peaks and valleys in the father and son's life. I think I almost had a feeling of what it was to starve to death. Especially when the father describes how emaciated the son is. I also felt despair even during the couple times they found themselves in a GOOD situation because it made me feel like I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

McCarthy's writing was odd. Apparently he's not fond of full sentences and punctuation, not to mention chapters, etc. That really bothered my husband when he read the book, as did not knowing the name of the man and the boy. And yet, for me, stream of consciousness is the only way the story could have been written. I don't think in complete sentences, and surely wouldn't have had I been in their situation.

The book is a bleak look at what our world could be like it we don't get our heads on straight as human beings. It should be read as a warning. I can't wait to see the movie, which came out yesterday. This is like the perfect role for Viggo Mortensen, and the reviews are already saying he will get another Oscar nod. Unfortunately, from watching the trailer for this, they have done a lot with the movie that was NOT in the book. The book was actually very simple compared to the movie. So read the book before you see the movie if you can. It's a REALLY fast read!”

• Rated 5 stars

“An amazing book. It's been reviewed by people far more credentialed than me, so I'll just say I was moved by it and immersed in it and it made me ponder important truths.”

• Rated 5 stars

“I must admit that this book was VERY good! The book is about a son and his father who journey around America by themselves. The condition of America when they walk is very sad, the sky is very dark, the weather haunts them with depression and the nature is not as beautiful as it used to be. The father plays both the father and the mother figure for the boy. The curious little boy asks questions to his father such as: Are we going to die? When are we going to die? How are we going to die? leading his poor father to tell him the honest truth. His book overall very much shows a close and important bondage between the two people. The ending is sad for me.. It made me cry. But it is a must to read! ”

• Rated 5 stars

“I found this book vewry fascinating. It was so very different. The plot was depressing but there was hope at the end so it finished with faith that a better day was coming. With the shape the world is in how far off is the Apocalypse?”