Comments on: Cormack McCarthy’s The Road

By: franks

franks — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:22:41 +0000

I finished The Road while on the eurostar coming back from paris – i had a little cry and people looked at me funny. The final paragraph is poetry, so different to the rest of the book.

By: Ray Frenden

Ray Frenden — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:57:26 +0000

Robert, that final paragraph is amazing.

Bruno, I really can’t wait to read Blood Meridian. I still haven’t gotten around to it.

GM, I’m trying! I really want to change the design for my site. I think I’m bored with things as they are and that’s keeping me from updating more often. Blergh.

By: Robert Cook

Robert Cook — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:15:59 +0000

THE ROAD is also the only book I have read by McCarthy; I picked up it when it first came out because the Sunday NY Times Book Review featured it in a front page review and raved about it. I am drawn to post-apocalyptic stories and so was immediately intrigued.

I must say, the book is powerful and bleak, and the ending beautiful in its poetic but frank recognition of those living things which have been but are no longer…among whom humankind will eventually be numbered. I actually teared up reading the last paragraph, something that has never happened to me in reading any other book.

By: clint

clint — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:35:34 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on that book, picked it up and read it on saturday when I had some down time. Very cool read, I’m sure I will end up checking out the rest of his stuff. It makes me want to get into survivalist mode and start stocking up ammo, shoes and rain gear…. maybe make a bunker…… haha.

By: Godmachine

Godmachine — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:47:14 +0000

good news then- I was bloody sick of having your blog on my google reader like a stagnet pool of aceness. I just got my hands on the Leon soundtrack- highly recomended boss. Also look out for my Gomedia interview where I drag your name into my nonesense a few times.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:28:39 +0000

For me the route was Old Men movie, then Old Men book, then The Road, then buying about 5 of his other books simultaneously. But I am having a bit of a hard time with Blood Meridian. That shit is BLEAK beyond anything I’ve ever read.

Thank you for the Rosemary tip, by the way.