Anyone read ''The Road'' by Cormac McCarthy?

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Have a voucher to spend and I wondered if this was a good read?

Really, she's captured it well

The film trailer is interesting; who is the woman?? Anyway, I'm dreading the idea of them making it into some kind of romance (particularly with Charlize Theron as the woman, pleeeeeease!)

oooo just going to look that up.
I'm dreading them making it too much about the more horrible incidents.

the mum/wife I think
before they hit the road.
Looks like the film picks up the story a bit earlier than the book.
Looks exciting

Paisleyleaf, yes, I do hope they don't show the most horrifying scenes (e.g. baby on spit / people trapped in cellar etc....ugh!) But then again if they don't it won't be very true to the book will it...

I don't mind them showing those bits
just hoping the don't make more of them than they are in the book. Milking it. iykwim. You know what hollywood can be like - and it's not really just about that.

it quickly became one of my favourite novels. the relationship between the father and son is so poignant. i read it in two sittings and in between i had to go and hold my sleeping son.

ragged robin,.. i did the same as you but in three sittings so had double the number of cuddles with my son

gripping, sad, awful, dark book but oh my, i didn't/couldn't stop reading it

i read it in a book club too and it had votes from 0.5/10 to 9.5/10

I got bored.
not harrowed
just bored
but then I am very neurotic and always imagining post apocalyptic scenarios and how I would cope

so i didn't finish it

I think oryx and crake is better
less poetic, more annoyingly smartarse, but more thought through

but I like this line from the kid

"What are our short to mid term goals?"

Or is it mid to long

It's very cute, obviously something he has learnt at school and very poignant under the circumstances

Read it in one go as I couldn't put it down without knowing how it ended. Think it would take a long time before I could read it again though - is v harrowing.

Robert Swindell's Brother in the Land is another good book, but slightly dated and aimed at teens, if you want something in a similar genre.

when everybody on here has read it, can we have a chat about the ending? obviously not yet though!

Oooh, yes, have just read this at our Book Club and have a lot to say about the ending! [Arti holds self back..]

Maybe start a thread with a 'spoiler' warning to talk about the end.

Wickerman, I read Oryx and Crake about 6 years ago, so can't remember it so well.But yes it was good - i really enjoyed it and recommended it to several people.
I think Thats what the MN book club voted on this month
I also love post apocalyptic stories and have a stack of books.

new thread with spoiler warning here

Wickermum the boy never went to school as far as I am aware.

I just finished the book and feel rather like I've sufferd post traumatic stress.

I have just seen the film in New York (yes CT is the mum in it).

I read the book the day before we saw it, so was still feeling VERY sad.

Have to say the film is brilliant and very true to the book, however I did cry the whole way through (but was probably worse as had just finished reading it).

haven't read it yet partly as a protest against dh who keeps banging on at me to read it but it sounds so bleak!

The Road by Cormac McCarthy was voted the best book of the last decade by 'The Times' recently. In case that is relevant to anyone!

I have just finished it tonight- started it yesterday!
Very harrowing, and bleak, and intensely moving. Not sure what to read next- maybe something completely different1

I just finished it last night.
The people in the basement and the roasted baby will haunt me forever

Movie trailer here

Sjolly good. In similar vein and better in many ways (philosophically principally) is Jose Saramago's Blindness.

Agree re debatable ending

It was wonderful - I took frever to read it I found I had to keep putting it down to digest it.

I really can't see how a film version can to it justice.