Book review - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

[cybermule]

Hmm. Brilliant book. Beautifully written, and well written in that I became absorbed and didn't want to put it down. Didn't personally find the post-apocalyptic scenery that much of a startler or the parental death that much of a tear-jerker, but then nobody will have expected me to. Didn't really matter watching the film first, in fact I'd quite like to re-watch it now as I remember it as being really rather good. More moving than the book, but then I get more engrossed in films, find them harder to detach somehow.

Comments

[janey-m.livejournal.com]

I've not read it, and after reading 'Child of God' I vowed never to read another Cormac McCarthy...

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Why? I've not read any of his other books. I said I wouldn't read this one because it's so unrelentingly miserable as a film, but then it cropped up a couple of times...

[sagefemme11.livejournal.com]

Didn't see the movie, but the roasted newborn scene made me sick.

[weemadharold.livejournal.com]

I also watched the film first although I didn't really enjoy it. The film seemed awfully shallow compared to the book, their struggles seemed almost superficial. I'll have to give it another go sometime, I might have just been in the wrong mood for it.

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

I hated the book, it's the only thing I've ever read to actually make me feel physically sick. I guess that's an accolade of sorts, not one I think has much value though.

[belladonna-9.livejournal.com]

No not for me I dont like this sort of book or film....

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

No, not really. I got that with American Psycho. Normally I'm ok with books. rather than films. Find it hard to detach from images.

[janinemarriott.livejournal.com]

Not me, I believe it would give me nightmares

[ninneviane.livejournal.com]

I've not read it...

[surrey-sucks.livejournal.com]

I've never read it either. I've heard of it, but until just now (I looked up the plot), I had no idea what it was about.