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You have to carry the fire
9 years, 4 months ago at Mar 2 7:48
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“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”What can I say about "The Road"... was a long, sad, rather monotonous, and generally I've been waiting for the moment when they will end. Some things I liked and others made me bored out.
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
16 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 20:25
1 vote
Stealing from Publishers Weekly found via Amazon.Com, here is a brief overview of the book:---
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 ... read more
Hard for a Dad
15 years, 7 months ago at Dec 22 6:59
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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 th... read more
The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and almost all life. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.
Manufacturer: Knopf
Release date: 26 September 2006
ISBN-10 : 0307265439 | ISBN-13: 9780307265432
Release date: 26 September 2006
ISBN-10 : 0307265439 | ISBN-13: 9780307265432
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World's Best Known Books and Stories (476 books items)"Written by: Cormac McCarthy Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Publication date: September 26, 2006 Number of pages: 287 “When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.” "
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