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Cormac McCarthy's bleak vision of the American landscape has always had a cataclysmic undertone, so it comes as no surprise that THE ROAD is actually set in a post-apocalyptic world of ash and bitter cold where cannibalistic marauders roam the countryside. In this dire place, a man and his son travel towards the sea armed only with a revolver and two bullets. Amid this desolation, a tin of canned pears is thing of wonder, and a broken wheel on their shopping cart can mean the difference between life and death. Their love for each other is fierce, but the son fears that his father has, in his desperation, become as savage and brutal as the world around him. Cormac McCarthy writes with a searing white heat, his images and language strike deep in the reader, and his vision of humanity is inexorable and haunting.
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"This book is very realistic and keeps you interested. If the world really ended, this is what it would be like, or at least it comes much closer to being so than any of the other books or movies on this subject."
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"There are so many books out there in this genre that are so much better. The book ends very abruptly, without and resolution to the whole story. The Author apparently never learned punctuation, as there is not an " in the book. "
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"Depressing throughout, except a little uplifting later, but ugh,tough to get through. Not worth it. Feel like reading it was a chore. Not sure why i went through it all. Wish i hadn't"
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