book review

“First quarter outside reading book review”
The Road by :Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
Genre: Fiction
The road is one of many of Cormac McCarthy’s novels that he wrote. The road Is fiction and it basically is about a man and his son that are surviving to try to not die from the horrid weather and lack of food. The setting of this is on a road and up in the mountains. The boy consonantally sees people who look like they need help and wants to save them and have them go with the man and the boy.
“Vivid, eloquent… the road is the most readable of McCarthy’s work, and consistently brilliant in its imagining of the posthumous condition of nature and civilization.” the book jack says, “one of McCarthy’s best novels, probably his most moving perhaps his most personal.”
I like in the book when a man from his little gang thing from the truck comes and the guys comes over near the man and the boy, and the man puts a gun up to him and says,” what are you doing here?” “I need to take a crap, he said” that made me laugh. The author is very descriptive with all of the surroundings. Another part that creeped me out was when they went down into the cellar and saw all the naked men and women there hiding because the reason they are down there is because people are going to eat them. Cannibalism is messed up. This book reminded me of a series I read called Curque Du freak because it described every person and object very well. The road also had blood and so did the other book I told you about. When the man was coughing up blood because he was sick and didn’t have enough food was disgusting.
“ they could be alive somewhere, the man said. Its possible. The boy didn’t answer. They went on. They’d wrapped there feet in sailcloth and bound them up in blue plastic pampooties cut from a tarp and they left strange tracks in there comings and going. He thought about the boy and his concerns and after a while he said: you’re probably right. I think they’re probably dead.” pg 243.
I liked this book because the topic of the book really kept me reading it and the book affected me how at the end the father dies which was depressing and how the man invited the boy to live with him and his family. In this story I enjoyed that the author was very descriptive with almost everything he talks about. Its either he setting, the characters, or the lake that they went into. So overall this was a interesting book that I read.