The Road

by Cormac McCarthy | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingitalianeowynwing of Prata di Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia Italy on 2/16/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by wingitalianeowynwing at A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Released 14 yrs ago (2/16/2010 UTC) at A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 2 by wingitalianeowynwing 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





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Journal Entry 3 by wingApoloniaXwing from Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Friday, February 19, 2010
Thank you so much, italianeowyn!
I've heard of this book, seems very promising!
Looking forward to reading it.

Journal Entry 4 by wingApoloniaXwing from Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Monday, May 3, 2010
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!

Journal Entry 5 by wingApoloniaXwing at Summer Gift, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Friday, May 28, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (5/28/2010 UTC) at Summer Gift, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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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.

Journal Entry 6 by CynthiaA at Brantford, Ontario Canada on Monday, June 7, 2010
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.

Journal Entry 7 by CynthiaA at Brantford, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, January 10, 2017
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.

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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