"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (novel)- Page 2

[sally1112]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:54pm

okay..so it is a day or two since I read this and posted.

I go to work this morning and a co-worker asks me if I have read this. I gave her my opinion, and quoted several of your posts. Giving you all credit, of course.

She agreed with us that feel the book was anti-climactic.
She read it because she saw it on Oprah, and she kept asking herself what Oprah saw in this book the entire time she was reading it.

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 10:00pm

Do they really plan to make a movie of this???

[tazber]

Posted: 7/4/07 at 12:14am

Yes they are. I forgot which studio got the rights, but it's going to be a prestige pic.

We shall see.....

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/4/07 at 12:57am

I really, really loved it. There was something about the setting and McCarthy's gorgeous prose style that drew me in immediately, and I was so invested in the relationship between the father and son. My heart was entirely with them the entire way through the story, and I thought that the ending was touching and completely appropriate. Anticlimactic? Maybe, but I was reading for the journey and the relationship, not a resolution for the plot. I haven't been as engrossed in or moved by a novel in quite some time.

I didn't feel that it was a cop-out at all not to explain what happened to the world. What does it matter? That's not the point of the story. It just is, and it's about two people who love one another dearly struggling for survival and clinging to that last ounce of hope when logically there's none to be had. For me, everything about The Road was perfect.

Interestingly, I've found it extremely difficult to get into McCarthy's other work. I started All the Pretty Horses and wound up supremely bored (and generally not intrigued by the story's premise). I'm halfway through Blood Meridian now, and while I quite like it so far, it hasn't had anything nearing the emotional pull that The Road had on me. I'm not a fan of Westerns per se (though I guess, at least thematically, I must be), so while the prose remains absolutely stunning, those other novels haven't been my cup of tea. Updated On: 7/4/07 at 12:57 AM

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 2:47am

I'm an avid reader and English teacher and I have to say that I struggled to finish this book. I don't see what all the fuss is about.