The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

Paperback, 287 pages

English language

Published March 28, 2007 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-307-38789-9
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4 stars (16 reviews)

Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates; the seasons are merely varied intensities of cold and dampness. Bands of cannibals roam the roads and inhabit what few dwellings remain intact in the woods.

Through this nightmarish residue of America a haggard father and his young son attempt to flee the oncoming Appalachian winter and head towards the southern coast along carefully chosen back roads. Mummified corpses are their only benign companions, sitting in doorways and automobiles, variously impaled or displayed on pikes and tables and in cake bells, or they rise in frozen poses of horror and agony out of congealed asphalt. The boy and his father …

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Pietra miliare post apocalittica

5 stars

I romanzi distopici di solito presentano dei mondi, immaginati nei dettagli, qui non c'è quasi niente. Non c'è neanche quella denuncia sociale o politica tipica dei romanzi distopici. Parla più della natura umana. Qui non c'è quasi niente, una strada che non porta da nessuna parte, che attraversa il nulla rimasto inutilmente, non c'è un passato, non c'è un futuro, non ci sono ragioni o spigazioni. Scarno, essenziale, scheletrico, nudo e crudo, freddo e oscuro, questo inferno, alla fine, parla della bontà.

En mi carretera

4 stars

Así como a los vinos les afecta el terroir, el clima, la contaminación ambiental, el maridaje escogido, las condiciones meteorológicas y lugar donde se prueba y hasta la compañía de quien lo cata etc., los libros se ven afectados por el lugar, el tiempo y el estado de ánimo de quien los lee. Es por ello que siempre aclaro que las estrellas con las que los califico hablan de mi disfrute, no de aspectos técnicos o la maestría con que estén abiertos. Tal es el caso de La carretera, de Cormac McCarthy.

Duda: ¿En qué difiere el nunca será de lo que nunca fue?

Este libro estaba en mi mesa de noche cuando mi papá murió. Lo comencé unos días antes. Se mantuvo sin leer casi una semana y media. Y para colmo, el tema parecía embonar perfectamente con lo que acontecía en mi vida en esos momentos. Estas …

Review of 'The Road' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Beautiful and horrifying tale of attempting to survive after an apocalypse. Novel approach to writing the dialog that makes the story seem even more dire. Some of the narrative is written simplistically, using simple sentences with multiple verbs (linked by "ands") to parrot how children engage, but there are also lovely passages, which I will return here to quote soon. :-)

Review of 'The Road' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

It's not you, The Road, it's me. I was unable to appreciate your literary voice, your bleak language. I was unable to develop a connection to the man and his son, on the road south. I skimmed you to the end, and it was not a satisfying experience.

You're simply not for me.

Subjects

  • Literary
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Fathers and sons
  • Survival skills
  • Robinsonades
  • Action & Adventure
  • Science Fiction - Adventure
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General