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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
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"The title grabbed me when I was walking through the stacks of books at a bookstore. I just saw this plain black cover that said The Road, and like, well, hey, it's almost like the Beatles White Album. It's such a simple cover, I gotta check out what this book is about. And then I saw that it was by Cormack McCarthy, who also wrote All the Pretty Horses, which I really enjoyed as well. Then once I read the back and discovered that it's a story -- a post-apocalyptic story -- I'm a fan of science fiction so anything about the end of the world or any type of something beyond our world is interesting to me.
It's a post-apocalyptic journey for a father and son trying to survive. It's just a tale of survival. It doesn't place blame on -- it's a nuclear war -- it doesn't place blame on -- there's no information on how the war started, who started it, what was destroyed. We just know that everything is destroyed and 95% of the people on earth are dead.
What I like about this book is that it's very realistic, actually. We can really see this father and son walking with a shopping cart, scavenging for food, trying to survive; and the people that they encounter are both good and bad. There's a couple of images in the book that are incredibly disturbing, and I still think about them -- haunted by them in a way -- so if you're a little bit squeamish, there's a couple of scenes in this book that are pretty hardcore. Other people who would like it, if you like science fiction, I think that this is a hit.
I would give this book four out of five. I rate it so high because obviously, if you rate a book about the effect that it has on the reader, there have only been about three books in my life that have made me sob, like I can't put the book down when I'm reading in bed. In terms of story, it's a strong -- it's an incredibly strong story. It's about human survival, and the end of the world, and the lengths that we would go to to save someone whom we love."
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