Before we go down The Road (Excellent pun, Faroukh 👏🏼) I need to say that Cormac McCarthy instantly became one of my favorite authors!
#theguywiththebookreview presents The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Dystopian narratives are something that I have usually struggled to like and even though this book seemed to go nowhere in it’s dystopian setting, it kept moving steadily.
The book is about a Father and Son’s journey towards the Sea, where they hope to find safe haven from a dusty world. All they have is a little food (they scavenge along the way) and a shopping cart which they use to push their meager belongings.
I cannot point out why but the book gripped me from page one, the writing is absolutely beautiful and care has been taken to polish out everything unnecessary.
Father-Son narratives are one of my favorites (my favorite childhood book being Danny the champion of the world) and in my mind I was thinking of The Road as a fictional Jump Sequel to it.
I would absolutely recommend this to everyone, even those who are not fond of Dystopian fiction. The ending is one of the best I’ve read in a long long time, absolutely heartbreaking yet hopeful.
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I’ve had this book recommended to me before…could be time to track it down!
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Yes! I hope you do..it’s a very interesting dystopian which focuses majorly on the characters themselves and less on the world building 😊
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Dystopian is actually one of my favorites genre 😅
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You’ll like this then 😬
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Looks like it !!
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I read this years ago and I still remember that cart! It was so good!
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Yes!!! The ending was heartbreaking!
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I love dystopian fiction. But I just couldn’t connect with this book. I finished it, though, despite it feeling like a drag. Maybe I should give it a re-read.
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And it was quite the opposite for me…not that into dystopian but I really enjoyed this!
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I think I’ll have to give it another try when I’m in a different state of mind. 😁
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Haha that does work sometimes!
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I like dystopias and sometimes I am unsettled by the fact that I prefer them over utopias😅 They function as warning to pay attention to our actions.
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It is a very interesting genre if done well!
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