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The Road is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. I could not stop reading it, but at the same time I hated how it made me feel. I stoped reading no
by lomase 1y ago
The Road is one of the most powerful books I have ever read.
I could not stop reading it, but at the same time I hated how it made me feel. I stoped reading novels for years after finishing it.
- octygen 1y agoThe Road is my favorite fathering book ever. I have recommended it to all my dad friends. Audiobook is excellent too.
- thombles 1y agoI gifted it to a couple of new Dad friends. They never did get back to me about it. Fair.
- ycombinete 1y agoI can see why, but as a new father the last thing I want my fatherhood associated with is that horrible horrible story.
- elephant81 1y agoI've read it twice. Once as a naive 16-year-old. Once, as a young father. Profoundly upsetting the second time.
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- Cruncharoo 1y agoI'd also suggest Siddhartha for this. Having read it at different points of my life makes it uniquely special.
- virgil_disgr4ce 1y agoI read The Road long before I became a father and part of me is, I guess, afraid to read it again now that I have two kids—perhaps because I remember how devastating it was then and suspecting it would be 100x that now. But I do intend to reread it sooner or later.
- dzuc 1y agoThe only book I've ever read in a single sitting.
- moc_was_wronged 1y ago[dead]
- groos 1y agoAfter reading the Road, I started on Blood Meridian and could not continue, swearing never to read McCarthy again. The man's soul was just too dark.
- username223 1y agoIf you think "Blood Meridian" is dark, try "Child of God." I'm a huge McCarthy fan, but "Blood Meridian" is tough to appreciate. "The Road," "No Country for Old Men," and "All the Pretty Horses" are his most readable works; try them, then decide how much farther you want to go.
- cgh 1y agoChild of God and The Crossing are two of my favourites by him.
- f30e3dfed1c9 1y agoI think Blood Meridian is his best book by far. The first time I read it, when I got to the end, I didn't even get up from my chair, just went right back to the beginning and started reading it again. I also like the border trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain. Sort of surprisingly, never actually read No Country for Old Men although I've seen the movie three or four times. I think The Road is overrated.
- ycombinete 1y agoYes. There’s something cruel there, or perhaps simply resigned, to reflecting the most brutal aspects of humanity in their most casual, logical, and inherent expression ([0] spoiler). You certainly never shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen at any moment. I have read The Road and All the Pretty Horses. I won’t read any of the others. AtPH has less horror than The Road, for what it’s worth. It’s very much a bildungsroman. If you enjoyed the road and want more like that, but without the horror; I’d say try our Steinbeck if you haven’t. He’s a greater writer, and less cruel. [0] AtPH spoiler: For example mangling that boy’s feet. It’s not arbitrary, not entirely necessary, but it had a logic to it; and is exactly the type of thing people do to each other.
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- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 1y agoIt’s the only book I’ve read where I came upon a passage that literally caused my jaw to drop.
- blast 1y agoDo you remember which one?
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 1y agoYes.
- blast 1y agoWhich passage was it?
- elephant81 1y agoBabies in the tree?
- ttshaw1 1y agoThat's Blood Meridian
- ycombinete 1y agoIt is most certainly the feed-people in the basement scene. I felt dizzy after reading that.
- johnnienaked 1y ago>hated how it made me feel I sometimes don't like feeling either.