The Road by Cormac McCarthy

[blazeofglory]

Can I get this book on line? I want to read this book so much but it is not available in our bookstores in Nepal.

[qimissung]

You should be able to get it at Amazon; if not, let me know, and I'll mail you my copy, blaze.

[blazeofglory]

You should be able to get it at Amazon; if not, let me know, and I'll mail you my copy, blaze.

Thank you for your generosity. In fact we can have no access to books at Amazon from Nepal.

I will be really be happy if you can send me a copy or send in an attachment at my email adress I will let you know

[Virgil]

I agree completely with Wilde woman. The movie is outstanding. I think it lasted about two minutes, Virgil, which is why we missed it. I was looking for it and still missed it.

Thanks. Now I really have to get it.

Can I get this book on line? I want to read this book so much but it is not available in our bookstores in Nepal.

I doubt it Blaze. It's a relatively new book, maybe only three or four years old. I do think you would like it.

[Whistle]

I started reading this book the day before yesterday and I absolutely adore it!

[manolia]

I read that book a few days ago and i liked it very much. There are at least three incidents i am sure i'll never forget
Mc Carthy's descriptions being very subtle and all had the same effect that Lovecraft has on me (that coming from me is a great compliment since i adore Lovecraft).

[Ahkilleus]

The movie had some very powerful shots that were consistent with the vivid imagery McCarthy conjures up describing the bleak landscape in the book. All and all, a good read and movie.

[andrewparkin]

I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick up the fire and drink some bourbon. I was chilled, chilled emotionally, stunned, awe-struck by McCarthy’s words. I mentioned The Road to a singer/songwriter mate and all they could say was “That one put me off my feed for a few days.” Knowing the man as I do, despite his lyrical, beautiful and often comic music, I took the comment as high praise for McCarthy’s work. Dark is dark as well as a number of us have arcane addictions....its good regards..

[Paulclem]

I think the power of the book is due to the grounding in reality it has. With the increasing scarsity of supplies, you suspect that some of humanity would begin a moral downward spiral as survival replaces any kind of pre-apocalypse morality. It is grim, as it would be grim if it actually came about.

[blazeofglory]

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Originally Posted by qimissung View Post
You should be able to get it at Amazon; if not, let me know, and I'll mail you my copy, blaze.


Now I have this book by the generosity of gimissung, all the way from the US. This is a book that all of us must read. I am reading this leisurely for I like every word of the book and what absorbed me in this book is the simplicity of the language in it. Very short sentences. With incomplete structures. The way we use in conversation. Though grammatically unacceptable, but semantically okay.

All that I feel is if all read this book or at least it must be prescribed as a textbook it will awaken us to the reality we by today and we will be aware of the fact that we are destroying ourselves by destroying nature.

I am always sensitive to plants and animals and this book is making me all the more sensitive.

Let us sensitize ourselves to nature or else nothing remain after a 2 or 3 centuries

[Butosai]

Horrible introduction to a writer. I hate his writing style and didn't read any of his others because of it.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I gave up on this one early last year, though it could have been how I was feeling as opposed to the writing. Then it didn't strike me as anything good though. I may give it another chance sometime again, but not just now.

[qimissung]

Well, I don't have my copy in front of me ( I'm glad you are enjoying it, blazeofglory!), but I adored this book. I put off reading it for a long time, then finally saw the movie this last spring. I love Viggo Mortensen, and thought the movie would be done well, and it was. I thought it would be to difficult for me to watch, but the relationship between the father and son was so tender that it made watching the movie bearable to me, even though they lived in such soul-destroying circumstances.

So then I had to read the book, which I had owned for awhile. I didn't think I would like McCarthy's style, but I found him gloriously readable.

[ladderandbucket]

Horrible introduction to a writer. I hate his writing style and didn't read any of his others because of it.

The Road is not at all typical of his work. His earlier novels were very dense, some would say overwritten, more in the style of Faulkner or Herman Melville. Although he has remained a stylistic show-off the flavour of his prose has made a 180 degree turn over the course of his career.

It would be a shame to dismiss the rest of his novels on the strength of The Road.

[Triumph2500]

As a newbie on the forum I've been rummaging in various threads to suss things out. One of the questions I've asked myself is how I'd respond if asked to nominate one only 'favourite book'. Not an easy question for any of us, I suppose, and one I'm not sure I could answer. However, I'm sure that 'The Road' would be in the final shootout, along with about three or four others.

Thanks to all for this interesting thread.