Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

176 reviews

michelleabdanan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Beautiful, brutal, haunting, moving, and deeply human. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

carlytenille's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

qstew's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

classical_learner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This is a very good book, not an easy one to read (aka, not good for mental health lol). I have a feeling the Walking Dead show was heavily inspired by this (I say this because although there are no zombies, the type of rough post-apocalyptic kill-or-be-killed survival scenario is similar). 
Especially in the second half, this book provokes the reader to come face-to-face with the grisly-ness of human nature and question how strong of a belief one has in anything transcendental, and why morality matters when nothing else does. 

TLDR—
A worthwhile read but, TWs? All of them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cursing

gossamer_lens's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

It was dark and slow and very literary. I enjoyed the technical writing of it a lot and found one of the characters quite endearing. It was dark in a sort of blurred and in the periphery way which I quite liked. 

It was a pleasure to read this as a buddy read with my bestie so I could have a companion in exploring this book. I think it's a modern day classic for a reason. I've spent a few weeks now trying to pinpoint the things I loved and the things I hated... And I guess I just cannot express it better than this. In the end the things I liked won over the things that grated and I couldn't place. And I just keep thinking about it so here we are with a higher rating then I could have imagined giving it after initially finishing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

chinburgmitch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Cannibalism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Chronic illness, and Cursing

annaa_aaaaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

bea_frankie's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Haunting, hopeless, a beautiful story of life. Some may say it's too black and white, the dialogue is simple, the good people try to be good and the bad people are bad. If you think this way then I feel like you just missed the point of the greater beauty of this piece and the story of life, generation, pain and balance. Anyway ... the girls who get it, get it and I fear the girls who don't may not be able to read critically and thoughtfully. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, Slavery, Cannibalism, and Murder

nebulous_tide's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Raises questions about the purpose of life - is survival enough?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Cannibalism

In a land where nothing grows and there are no more plants or animals, it's hard to see how any "good" society or people can live together in one place. Surely, they must constantly move and scavenge from the dead civilisation, and fight over scraps. As such, all hope is irrational and the ending makes no sense.

st_ella_r's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery and Pregnancy

Minor: Excrement