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The Road by Cormac McCarthy; August BOTM
Topic Started: Jul 29 2010, 07:35 PM (1,121 Views)
Deb64
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I actually gave my first copy of the book to a good friend who was visiting from Mexico, before I was finished reading it! But I found my thrift store copy a couple of days later. Myfriend is a cultural anthropology professor. I can't wait to hear what she thinks about it. Hope she has a chance to read it soon.
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can't wait to read your review luckie!!!
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Anyone see the movie with Viggo? Watched it last night. Cried at the end, just as I did with the book. Love, love, love Viggo. The special feature "making of the road" was really good, too. He's such a wonderful actor. Everyone did a good job.
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haven't seen it yet...I'll had it to my Netflix ASAP.
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I haven't seen the movie and I don't know if I liked the book well enough to add it to my netflix que.

Just realized I never posted my thoughts on this one....so here goes

This book was just okay for me. While I appreciated McCarthy's decision to use a different type of set up, the results were too dis-jointed for me. There were moments that were touching, that I felt connected to -i.e. the scene where the father found the underground stockpile - most of the time the questions that kept popping into my head overpowered anything emotional. Fungus grows but nothing else does? Fires are started but everything is already burned? It's snowing all the time but hey look, the beach is all sand? The son was born at the "beginning" of the nuclear winter but he was now old enough to have real conversations (in completely formed sentences) so how long after the incident does the story take place? How long have they been traveling? And after all those years why hasn't any green life returned anywhere? Mother Nature almost always finds a way to regenerate herself. We only have to look to incidents like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island or even to a smaller degree the eruption of Mt St Helen's.

The end was a bit emotional. I was so sad for the boy, loosing pretty much his whole world. But one of my biggest pet peeves is books that don't have an ending. I want to know what happened, not guess or assume. I don't necessarily need to now every last word, thought, or action the main character takes, but I like to have a majority of threads tied up. This book most definitely left me hanging.
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I saw The Road last week.

A, have you seen it yet? So, Viggo is a great actor & really does a good job & pulls the movie off really well. (He does a couple of naked backside shots too & he still looks great for his age, let me tell you).

As for subject matter, this movie was just so damn depressing. It is one of those movies I could only watch once.

I did not get a chance to read the book, so am not sure how it compares.
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nope, haven't seen it, but it's in my queue. I read the book and loved it, but that also means I know what the material is. I've had English Patient on my coffee table for a week.
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