The Road

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“A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.

A touching tale of two souls, must read

Quotes from the book

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

"If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it."

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"No Country for Old Menin tapaan McCarthyn proosa on tässäkin todella lakonista ja pelkistettyä ja ehkä just sen takia ihan helvetin hyvin iskevää, ja se kans sisältää todella ahdistavaa ja upeeta maailmankuvaa. Tää päähenkilöiden isä-poika-suhde on aivan uskomattoman upeesti rakennettu ja on kans ihan mielenkiintoista et tässähän ei tosiaan missään vaiheessa ilmoitella syytä tohon tän kuvaamaan maailmantilanteeseen, se vaan.. on."

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"Adapted into the film "The Road". Nuclear Holocaust"

Hard for a Dad

“The aftermath. Of what? It doesn't matter. The world as we know it, is over. And to walk us through what is left, is the man and the boy. There is no need for names, times, or places. Whatever it was that happened, this is all the boy has ever known, but the man remembers when things weren't always this way. I hate to place an age on the boy, you can decide for yourself. However, I kept thinking around 10 years old. He was young enough that some of the things they had to do, or that were discussed, hurt me. My heart hurt, ached if you will. You see, I have two small children and I can't imagine having to go through some of the things that they went through. This troubled tale was a great read, but I would sometimes be emotionally exhausted by it. As I sometimes am at the end o” read more

“The Road follows one man and his son as they travel across post-apocalyptic America in search of warmer climes after humanity has sealed its own fate with an undescribed cataclysmic event. The towns and cities of old have been burned to the ground and all foliage has met a similar end as they are surrounded by a world of grey misery as they make their way along old highways scavaging for tinned foods and dodging lawless cannibals who will kill and eat anything in order to survive.

Despite the settings, the storytelling is very cyclic in nature, with the boy and his dad doing the same thing day after day, and the descriptions of building a fire, walking all day, eating, making a camp and building another fire are quite tedious after a while as you'd imagine. What starts as an extr” read more

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

“Stealing from Publishers Weekly found via Amazon.Com, here is a brief overview of the book:

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Violence, in McCarthy’s post apocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a “long shear of light and then a series of low concussions” that leaves cities and forests burned, birds and fish dead, and the earth shrouded in gray clouds of ash. In this landscape, an unnamed man and his young son journey down a road to get to the sea. (The man’s wife, who gave birth to the boy after calamity struck, has killed herself.) They carry blankets and scavenged food in a shopping cart, and the man is armed with a revolver loaded with his last two bullets. Beyond the ever-present possibility of starvation lies the threat of roving bands of cannibalistic thug” read more