The Road - Cormac McCarthy
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From:
aldra
on 26-Oct-10 17:17
Overall rating 10.0
I have read thousands of books but this was the first to so impress and devastate me that I immediately re-read it.
A small son and his father walk through a ravaged and destroyed America is convincing and harrowing. Their relentless flight towards the coast away from the ash and the wreckage hoping to find some and small sanctuary is totally mesmerizing.
Read it, you won't put it down and you won't forget it either.
An allegory for our times. Aldra
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BelindaY
on 03-Apr-09 13:21
Overall rating 10.0
You won't be able to put it down - you will have to read through the night at the utter horror of it. But it is all so real and believable. I hear they are making a film of it and I can't wait but I also won't be able to bear to watch it either.
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iBundle
on 11-Jul-08 11:07
Overall rating 10.0
A thought-provoking analysis of how the human being is stretched and pushed by the will to survive, against all the odds - how altruism and positive human values can peek through the black, depressing fog of human selfishness.
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