Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

17 reviews

revolution666's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Gun violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Rape, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and War

safeandhound's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

The author clearly has an overall dark view about humanity, but it is tempered with the allowance for love.  Would not read if you’re feeling depressed…

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Murder

proceduralbob's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Cannibalism

Minor: Pregnancy

cstein's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Prescient, disturbing, and sad, occasionally funny, often beautiful, full of (human) nature and faith. Images that stick in your head. Not as completely bleak as I feared and not as violent as some of McCarthy's other works.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Cursing, and Terminal illness

Minor: Ableism

owenwilsonbaby's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

"What would you do if I died?"
"If you died I would want to die too."
"So you could be with me?"
"Yes. So I could be with you."
"Okay."

McCarthy is so incredibly talented. This was a horrifying book. I will never be the same.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

sarah_ann_roth's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

1.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Suicide, and Pregnancy

clarissajs's review

dark slow-paced

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

0.5

I wasn't really sure how to rate this one. I finished it, fairly quickly too, so I must have enjoyed it to some degree. Although, it was a short story and it didn't have any chapters or sections, so maybe it didn't take long for that reason.

I didn't find myself unable to put it down or impatient to get back to it. I think I just wanted to finish it so I could start a new book. I said to my partner last night that "I kept waiting for them to explain what happened leading up to this story, by the time I realised that wasn't going to happen, I had less than 100 pages left and thought I may as well finish it."

It was short, continuous and repetitive. You don't find out much about anything, the plot and characters are like poorly kept secrets, that you only get little bits of through the book. Overall, I would rate it as okay. I wouldn't recommend it.

This story could've been something amazing, it could have been a political statement on climate change or something (the world literally burnt). Instead, it left a lot to question and even more to our imaginations. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Cannibalism