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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

87 reviews

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

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

honeybeewitched87's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing

absurdpineapples's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

avasbookmark's review against another edition

dark sad slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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

andrea_lachance's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Not a fun summer read!!!

I’m very much a mood reader, and The Road is definitely meant to be read on a dreary day, rather than on a warm cloudy day in a hammock when one is appreciating nature. Or maybe that is the best setting to read about a completely desolate, grey world where the only thing a man can do is walk, hold his gun, and hope he dies before his child.

Wish I had read this in an academic setting, where I could certainly get more literary analysis on this book, but I’ll settle for pilfering YouTube, academic websites, and my library’s ProQuest.

Cornac McCarthy’s writing stands in a league of its own, in both syntax and style. There were so many words I straight up didn’t know and didn’t even bother to look up the definition of.

The story is so simple, which is what makes it so heartwrenching.

Still split on if this is “hopeful” book, but based on what I know of McCarthy’s previous work, this is probably the most hopeful of the bunch. It’s so minimal, that its impact is astonishing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Slavery, Cannibalism, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

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

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