Cormac McCarthy, The Road Reviews, Compare Best Science Fiction at Review Centre

Cormac McCarthy, The Road Reviews

WRITE A REVIEW

★★★★★

5 / 5

From 4 reviews

100% of users recommend this

Value For Money

Overview
Reviews (4)
Media Gallery (4)
Prices

Media Gallery for Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Latest Reviews

★★★★★

WRITE A REVIEW

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Excellent books to read”

Written on: 17/01/2010 by snazal (6 reviews written)

Excellent books to read (read more)

Report this review

★★★★★

WRITE A REVIEW

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“An Impressive vision of the end of the world this book...”

Written on: 25/12/2009 by Chroniccronners (2 reviews written)

An Impressive vision of the end of the world this book builds tension and is pretty harrowing in places. Following an unnamed father and a son through the world in the aftermath of an unexplained disaster which has laid the world to waste on their way to the coast although there is no real hope of salvation. The road is all about there relationship and the fathers struggle to come to terms with the fact that he may have to kill his own son to protect him from the horrors of this world. ... (read more)

Report this review

★★★★★

WRITE A REVIEW

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“In The Road by Cormac McCarthy an anonymous father and...”

Written on: 22/04/2009 by steverobinson0 (34 reviews written)

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy an anonymous father and son's travel through a post-apocalyptic, ravaged landscape, which has been subjected to an unknown devastation, burned and with everything covered in grey ash. This is a profoundly moving novel which I could not put down and was sorry to finish. Cormac McCarthy's prose is simple, yet effective, and poetic. Truly one of the best books I have ever read. (read more)

Report this review

★★★★★

WRITE A REVIEW

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The Road ”

Written on: 28/07/2006 by Harriet Klausner (18660 reviews written)

The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, Sep 2006, $24.00
ISBN 0307265439

The cities and much of the woodland have vanished in a pandemic inferno; the birds no longer fly as they all died in the catastrophe. Nothing seems to live in the oceans. Left behind is a world with few living species struggling to survive under a grey cover of ash that engulfs the planet.

A man and his son trek down the lonely road using a shopping cart to carry their possessions as they search for food to stave off... (read more)