The Road (Oprah''s Book Club)

by Cormac McCarthy | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780307387899 Global Overview for this book
Registered by BooksnKatz of Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada on 5/3/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by BooksnKatz from Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada on Thursday, May 3, 2007
Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. --Dennis Lehane

Journal Entry 2 by BooksnKatz from Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada on Wednesday, May 30, 2007
A hard book to read but okay. He uses a strange writing style but once I got used ot it it was okay.

I guess this will be left somewhere for someone else to read it too.

Journal Entry 3 by RealBookWorm on Monday, July 16, 2007
I found this book in a garbage can when I was going to the bank. No, I wasn't garbage picking! When I saw it was a book, I took it out to see if it was okay. Unfortunately, whoever left it either didn't properly seal the ziplock bag or someone else opened it and didn't reseal it correctly. The book has some water damage but it's certainly worth saving. It's only a little wet on one end.

It doesn't look like my kind of book but since I'll be travelling soon, I figured it would make a good wild release while I was on the road. :)

Journal Entry 4 by RealBookWorm at The Hilltop Motel in Meaford, Ontario Canada on Friday, July 20, 2007

Released 16 yrs ago (7/20/2007 UTC) at The Hilltop Motel in Meaford, Ontario Canada

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Left on a table over by the pool.

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