The Road
Registered by italianeowyn of Prata di Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia Italy on 2/16/2010
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by italianeowyn at A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Journal Entry 2 by italianeowyn from Prata di Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia Italy on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
In memory of Kalman
L'albero a cui tendevi la pargoletta mano, il verde melograno da' bei vermigli fior nel muto orto solingo rinverdì tutto or ora, e giugno lo ristora di luce e di calor. Tu fior de la mia pianta percossa e inaridita, tu de l'inutil vita estremo unico fior, sei ne la terra fredda, sei ne la terra negra; né il sol più ti rallegra né ti risveglia amor. Pianto antico, Giosuè Carducci |
A haunting masterpiece, set in a plundered, ruined, post-apocalyptic world, where tribes of cannibals, marauders and scavengers move around. And nameless father & son, "each the other's world entire", brought alive to the reader with their plain, but intense dialogues.
(What I didn’t like were the religious overtones. And McCarthy doesn’t seem to know that starving women don’t get pregnant.)
This book is a warning. And I hope that those will read it in whose power it is to make this nightmarish world real.
Unputdownable and highly recommendable!
(What I didn’t like were the religious overtones. And McCarthy doesn’t seem to know that starving women don’t get pregnant.)
This book is a warning. And I hope that those will read it in whose power it is to make this nightmarish world real.
Unputdownable and highly recommendable!
Released 13 yrs ago (5/28/2010 UTC) at Summer Gift, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
My first summer gift 2010 goes travelling... to Canada...
It's one of the best books I read during the last months and I couldn't find it on your shelves, so I hope you don't know it already. And I hope you like it. No fun book, but an important one.
The fun part of the package are the other little goodies that travel along.
It's one of the best books I read during the last months and I couldn't find it on your shelves, so I hope you don't know it already. And I hope you like it. No fun book, but an important one.
The fun part of the package are the other little goodies that travel along.
Arrived today, thank you Apolonia. I haven't yet read this one, and I will now. Although I admit, friends have told me its 'bleak' and difficult to read, although worthy. But thank you because I probably would not have sought it out on my own, and probably will benefit from it.
This is a book worthy of respect, worthy of admiration. But I cannot truly say I liked it. I didn't "like" it. It was a horrible, heart-rending, terrifying view of the future of our world. I wasn't supposed to like it. It was supposed to make me feel hopeless despair and pit-of-my-stomach fear. That is what the characters were feeling. That is how I felt reading it.
McCarthy chose his words mindfully and used his words sparingly, as if the words themselves were disappearing and he might not get to use them again. The fragmented and choppy writing was a perfect reflection of the world that these nameless characters wandered through, attempting to hold onto their bleak survival. The fact that the father and son were never named speaks to all the things that were left behind in their world.
If you read to escape, you might not want to visit The Road. It isn't a good place. But it sure is important to acknowledge its potential existence.
McCarthy chose his words mindfully and used his words sparingly, as if the words themselves were disappearing and he might not get to use them again. The fragmented and choppy writing was a perfect reflection of the world that these nameless characters wandered through, attempting to hold onto their bleak survival. The fact that the father and son were never named speaks to all the things that were left behind in their world.
If you read to escape, you might not want to visit The Road. It isn't a good place. But it sure is important to acknowledge its potential existence.
Journal Entry 8 by CynthiaA at Little Free Library -- Franklin St. in Brantford, Ontario Canada on Sunday, January 15, 2017
Released 7 yrs ago (1/14/2017 UTC) at Little Free Library -- Franklin St. in Brantford, Ontario Canada
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