Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

176 reviews

noah8421's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Violence and Suicide attempt

erynelle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

leedar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The book straddles the line of haunting and beautiful. The plot is often haunting but the beauty of the novel lies in the prose and the message, that love persists and is powerful. 
The plot moves slowly and at times feels rather redundant and Cormac McCarthy’s writing can often feel as though it’s somewhere between excessively verbose and poetically beautiful; nonetheless, despite having a good suspicion for how the book would end by the time I got there, I was reduced to tears. Rarely has a book moved me quite like this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

fallen_angel1002's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

 A classic apocalypse tale. It follows the life of a father and his young son as they try to survive in a world that has been destroyed by some form of unnamed apocalypse. Travelling a seemingly endless and dangerous road, the nameless duo are brought across different aspects of the apocalypse, highlighting the different human reactions to a situation such as this. 

There are two reasons that I cannot give this a higher rating; one) the grammar and punctuation are next to nonexistent, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does make it hard to read at times; two) no matter what problems the duo come across, they are solved quickly and without any real consequence- most of what they come across isn't relative to the plot past showing the reader how this new dystopian world has changed people, and it would make little difference to the plot if it wasn't included. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

brynalexa's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

I post on threads about a book that made you want to throw it in the garbage can inspired me to come back and review this book I read two years ago. 

This book is garbage. I had no interest in being in that awful man’s head for so long. 

The only times he brings up his wife (the only mention of a woman in the entire book) he introduces her using what her breasts look like in the particular memory he’s thinking about. Even when it’s in reference to their young child. 

There are much better apocalyptic/dystopian books out there. Please don’t bother and especially don’t give more money to this asshat author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Rape, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Abandonment

bungo_books's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Love the authors writing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and War

fakeppy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Such beautiful writing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

magimiel's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Cannibalism

Minor: Rape, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

michaela_reads_stuff's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It made me want to weep, and then made me feel bad about the wasted energy of weeping. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

j0ated's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Gets me every time I read it, such a dark yet intimate story that seems to fly by. Absolutely beautiful prose as to be expected with Cormac McCarthy, strangely a comfort read for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Cannibalism