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US Mall 1 - The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Vintage Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307387899
ISBN: 0307387895
Label: Vintage Books
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 287
Publication Date: 2007-03-28
Publisher: Vintage Books
Release Date: 2007-03-28
Studio: Vintage Books
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Summary: Morbid and depressing
Comment: Endearing? Hopeful? This is what people got out of the book? Wow, it sucked the life out of me and just about ruined my day. It's written well and flows smooth and fast. But, it's about the most heartbreaking book I've ever read. Reminds me of Schindlers list w/o the humanity. If you feel like you're just too happy, then read this, it will surely take all the joy away.
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Summary: A rare prosaic masterpiece, couldn't put it down
Comment: Not since reading J.M. Coatzee's Disgrace have I found a writer's prose to be painfully good. Cormac Mcarthy's The Road is such a book. Sentences as stark, poignant and emotionally raw as the bleak and barren world they describe. The book is essentially a long poem, which, dark as the tale may be, at times reads as more of an ode to some humans' ability to find beauty and goodness in the darkest of times. An odyssey of a father and son caught in a near-post human world, there is scarcely a joyful moment in the entire book. And yet there is a truthful kind of hope in the familial bond and in the struggle for goodness, whether that goodness is a cultural construct or something greater (Mcarthy leaves it ambiguous).
For me, the book was a potent wake up call, the sort that we need everyday in an era of nuclear weapons, global warming, resource scarcity. It's unclear how the world came to be the way it is in "The Road" - a landscape full of ash and nearly completely dead - and the sad truth is that the reader can find any number of probable scenarios that could have made it that way, scenarios that don't seem so far-fetched.
I could write much more about The Road: its meditations on death, on nihilism, on memory and love, but like most great literature, dissecting it would cheapen it. I think it is an essential story for our times. I look forward to the film.
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Summary: Literary Affectation or Simple Laziness?
Comment: Not using quotation marks to denote dialog is either a literary affectation or simple laziness.
Mr. Mac should grow up and write like an adult already.
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Summary: Master of deception
Comment: All along the book, you're waiting for something to happen. Suspens is at its climax all the time but in the end...well nothing. This couple just go from luck to luck, they should probably have played loto.
All right, the bonds between a father and his child are very well described but apart from that, I found the book pretty empty. The reflexion the father has on his life, on what happens is not even that deep after all and they just are lucky on their trip, finding food just when they needed it the most. ô fortunate!
Well in a word, the book could have been great and has some sparks of greatness but it is definitely missing a little something.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sigh...this is a special novel.
Comment: A novel of loving and horrible content...just read it. I think the only other experience of similar feelings was while at Dachau. You will be bound to appreciate your children and life so much more....
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Morbid and depressing
Comment: Endearing? Hopeful? This is what people got out of the book? Wow, it sucked the life out of me and just about ruined my day. It's written well and flows smooth and fast. But, it's about the most heartbreaking book I've ever read. Reminds me of Schindlers list w/o the humanity. If you feel like you're just too happy, then read this, it will surely take all the joy away.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A rare prosaic masterpiece, couldn't put it down
Comment: Not since reading J.M. Coatzee's Disgrace have I found a writer's prose to be painfully good. Cormac Mcarthy's The Road is such a book. Sentences as stark, poignant and emotionally raw as the bleak and barren world they describe. The book is essentially a long poem, which, dark as the tale may be, at times reads as more of an ode to some humans' ability to find beauty and goodness in the darkest of times. An odyssey of a father and son caught in a near-post human world, there is scarcely a joyful moment in the entire book. And yet there is a truthful kind of hope in the familial bond and in the struggle for goodness, whether that goodness is a cultural construct or something greater (Mcarthy leaves it ambiguous).
For me, the book was a potent wake up call, the sort that we need everyday in an era of nuclear weapons, global warming, resource scarcity. It's unclear how the world came to be the way it is in "The Road" - a landscape full of ash and nearly completely dead - and the sad truth is that the reader can find any number of probable scenarios that could have made it that way, scenarios that don't seem so far-fetched.
I could write much more about The Road: its meditations on death, on nihilism, on memory and love, but like most great literature, dissecting it would cheapen it. I think it is an essential story for our times. I look forward to the film.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Literary Affectation or Simple Laziness?
Comment: Not using quotation marks to denote dialog is either a literary affectation or simple laziness.
Mr. Mac should grow up and write like an adult already.
:/
Customer Rating:
Summary: Master of deception
Comment: All along the book, you're waiting for something to happen. Suspens is at its climax all the time but in the end...well nothing. This couple just go from luck to luck, they should probably have played loto.
All right, the bonds between a father and his child are very well described but apart from that, I found the book pretty empty. The reflexion the father has on his life, on what happens is not even that deep after all and they just are lucky on their trip, finding food just when they needed it the most. ô fortunate!
Well in a word, the book could have been great and has some sparks of greatness but it is definitely missing a little something.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sigh...this is a special novel.
Comment: A novel of loving and horrible content...just read it. I think the only other experience of similar feelings was while at Dachau. You will be bound to appreciate your children and life so much more....
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