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What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of December 19, 2009?		135	WhatAmyRead, Hoje 1:15am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Trystorp's Books in 2009		91	Trystorp, Ontem 7:03pm
BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: December 2009		45	wookiebender, Ontem 6:52pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : DonnaReads through the 2nd Half of 2009		310	Donna828, Ontem 3:04pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Tammiej's book list of 2009.		244	alcottacre, Ontem 2:50pm
50 Book Challenge : tapestry100's books in 2009		188	AMQS, Ontem 2:12pm
The Green Dragon : Should I keep reading...?		11	sandragon, Ontem 1:10pm
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Tamara's book list of 2009.		91	Tammiejx, Ontem 12:30pm
Science Fiction Fans : Dec. 2009 reading		63	RBeffa, Ontem 12:09pm
Literary Snobs : What are you reading NOW Dec 09?		86	iansales, Ontem 8:35am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : flissp 2: The New Batch		346	flissp, Ontem 7:21am
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : seekingflight's 100 in 2009		78	seekingflight, Ontem 7:05am
Club Read 2009 : Solla's reading and other thoughts		111	solla, Ontem 12:47am
50 Book Challenge : tjblue's 50+ challenge		13	spacepotatoes, Ontem 12:34am
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Literary Snobs : Best Books of the '00s		52	bobmcconnaughey, Terça-feira 10:52pm
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in December?		74	kirbyowns, Terça-feira 9:43pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : boekenwijs' 75 for 2009		144	boekenwijs, Terça-feira 4:27pm
50 Book Challenge : Jill is going to read 50 (+) books this year and stop reading the free papers on the tube		112	jillianmarie, Terça-feira 4:47am
What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2008		175	newlifecoming, Terça-feira 4:24am
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Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 5		326	ktleyed, Sexta-feira 7:10pm
Lectures des francophones : Embarquement de domguyane pour ses lectures 2009		46	CyCy, Sexta-feira 8:20am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Monthly Bests		43	allthesedarnbooks, Quinta-feira 4:14pm
50 Book Challenge : Folkstone's 50 book challenge - 2009		48	folkstone, Quinta-feira 2:44pm
The Green Dragon : 1001 Science Fiction Books to Read Before a Supernova Kills Us All		129	Morphidae, Quinta-feira 2:15pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Shoot for the stars! SpiraledStar's 75		141	ronincats, Quinta-feira 10:30am
50 Book Challenge : tkennedy's rest-of-2009. 9 books in 9 weeks.		8	tkennedy, Dezembro 16
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Book talk : The Last Two Books you have Read		58	callmejacx, Dezembro 15
1010 Category Challenge : katieinseattle's (new) category list		16	VictoriaPL, Dezembro 15
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Lisa's 2009 Challenge - Upping the Ante		109	alcottacre, Dezembro 14
Club Read 2009 : akeela's 2009 reading		234	avaland, Dezembro 13
40-Something Library Thingers : Books you were "supposed" to like but didn't , and alternate recommendations		13	ca_dmv, Dezembro 13
Club Read 2009 : Avaland's 2009 Reading, Part II		221	avaland, Dezembro 13
1010 Category Challenge : vibrantminds 1010 challenge		15	VictoriaPL, Dezembro 9
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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : TrishNYC's 75 Book Challenge.		229	dk_phoenix, Dezembro 7
50 Book Challenge : destinyhascheatedme - - reading log - - 2009		39	destinyhascheatedme, Dezembro 6
What Are You Reading Now? : 2009 WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?		188	thanuj2409, Dezembro 6
Literary Snobs : What are you reading NOW November 09?		176	iansales, Dezembro 6
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : AlcottAcre's 2009 Reads - Take 11		220	mckait, Dezembro 6
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : ateolf 2009		32	ateolf, Dezembro 5
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of November 28, 2009?		194	emaestra, Dezembro 5
San Diego Bibliophiles : What are you reading now?		182	bardsfingertips, Dezembro 4
50 Book Challenge : ateolf 2009		17	ateolf, Dezembro 4
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - November 2009		151	cdyankeefan, Dezembro 2
The Green Dragon : November 2009 Reads		49	MrsLee, Dezembro 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : glassreader's books in 2009		124	glassreader, Dezembro 1
BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: November 2009		75	livrecache, Novembro 30
Book talk : A Fun Book Game -- Explanation A Click Away!		788	DeltaQueen50, Novembro 25
History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture : The Coming Collapse of Human Civilization		120	Busifer, Novembro 24
Pulitzer Fiction Challenge : Giving it a try, but oh my....		15	laytonwoman3rd, Novembro 24
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of November 14, 2009?		178	slarsoncollins, Novembro 23
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in November?		62	littlegeek, Novembro 23
1010 Category Challenge : RMXtremes 1010 Challenge		39	RMXtreme, Novembro 17
Deep South : Cormac McCarthy		20	agmlll, Novembro 17
Book talk : what book has ever scared u the most?..		19	fairywings, Novembro 14
999 Challenge : Favourite Book in Each Category		10	hailelib, Novembro 14
Philadelphians : Philly event: 11/15/09 advance screening of The Road		1	sonyagreen, Novembro 12
Say Yes to Michigan : Michigan event: 11/19/09 advance screening of The Road		1	sonyagreen, Novembro 12
1010 Category Challenge : clfisha's 1010 Challenge		30	GingerbreadMan, Novembro 12
List Five Books Parlour Game : Pack Your Bags		13	MarianV, Novembro 10
50 Book Challenge : Rich's 50 for 2009		9	mookie86, Novembro 9
1010 Category Challenge : fannyprice's 2010 1010 Challenge		40	blondierocket, Novembro 5
Site talk : Special LT event TONIGHT in NYC: a free screening of "The Road" - based on Cormac McCarthy's book		6	sonyagreen, Novembro 3
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Book Challenge 2009: Bridget770's List		129	alcottacre, Novembro 2
999 Challenge : Sanddancer's		127	bonniebooks, Outubro 29
1010 Category Challenge : djay's 101010 Challenge		48	AHS-Wolfy, Outubro 19
West Virginians : Message Board		37	unreconstructed, Outubro 18
Book talk : A Silly Book Game - Part 12		301	SqueakyChu, Outubro 14
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Luxx's 75 Book Challenge		302	Luxx, Outubro 13
BookMooching : Please post 'phantom' books here		180	melissasyd, Outubro 12
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : tymfos books read in 2009		241	tymfos, Outubro 10
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : The worst books I've read in the first quarter of 2009.		133	alcottacre, Outubro 8
Book talk : Choose a book that you haven't read yet. (4)		329	callmejacx, Outubro 7
BookMooching : Pimp your inventory - September 2009		101	wisewoman, Outubro 1
999 Challenge : Jules' (Bookworm Jules)		56	bookwormjules, Setembro 30
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 May 2007		124	usnmm2, Setembro 27
Book talk : Most Evil Character in Bookdom		40	scrpo1027, Setembro 26
Book talk : A Silly Book Game - Part 11		298	SqueakyChu, Setembro 24
Book talk : The Reading Books We Don't Think We'll Like Challenge - karenmarie and CharlesBoyd		60	karenmarie, Setembro 24
The Green Dragon : Books you Couldn't Get Through		103	littlegeek, Setembro 23
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I just finished The Road yesterday and loved it! I am glad to see you did too. Are you joining us for the 2010 challenge? The group is up and running! I hope to see you there.

... between bullying, murder, and genocide seemed a bit flaky to me. I'd like to read a good book on this topic. 80. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5/5 Best novel I've read in ages. Unrelenting despair. 81. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 3/5 After reading "The Road" I ...

I have read The Road twice and have not tired of it either time. It is intense, but I like that. I will definitely see the movie if it comes to our theater. If not, I'll wait for Netflix.

... is illuminated : a novel / Jonathan Safran Foer. Extremely loud and incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer. The road / Cormac McCarthy The story of Edgar Sawtelle : a novel / David Wroblewski White teeth : a novel / Zadie Smith. Liquidation / Imre Kertész Weight / Je ...

... a bit disappointing as far as "alternative history" problematics are concerned. Now I'm pondering whether to dive into The Road or not. It's bleak and depressing, as far as I know, and I'd rather have some cheerful reading now. On the other hand, it's said to be very good.

... But it was all a bit bleak, really. Went to the movies last night with friends, and we were discussing doomsday fiction - The Road, World War Z, and this - and none of them make me very happy. Although I would recommend World War Z because the good bits are good, and it does end mostly ...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I've been listening to The Road but had to stop last night because it got too bleak. Not what I want for Christmas reading! I'm about a third into it and I'm trying to decide if I'll continue with it later. I'm tense the whole time I listen, expecting the man or his son meet up with the 'bad ...

The Road is correct.

I just finished The Road and it was a little bit depressing... Books read: 39

... group. The World Without Us and Alas, Babylon are also on my list for this year. I've read both On the Beach and The Road recently and can recommend them both. There are several other members of this challenge who are reading in this category and will probably respond.

... World Without Us by Alan Weisman 2. On the Beach by Nevil Shute 3. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank 4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson 6. World War Z by Max Brooks 7. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart ...

#138: I have The Road home from the library now to read. I may give No Country for Old Men a try after that.

My list for the year - rereads not included: January The Road - Fiction February Alias Grace - Fiction March Any Known Blood - Fiction April The Blind Assassin - Fiction May The Cellist of Sarajevo - Fiction June - not a great reading month The Tent - Short Storie ...

69. No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy After reading The road last year I wanted to read more by this author. That was in the period that also the movie No country for old men was in the cinemas. It took me quite a while to start reading this, mainly because of the darkness and ...

I wasn't that fond of The Road either--and I accidentally read it twice! But, then, I'm not that fond of post-apocalyptic or dystopian novels. Reading about what's happening in some parts of the world (Africa, the Middle-East) right now is depressing enough. P.S. You can try looking at the (o ...

... by Leo Tolstoy (I've got two parts left - I fell behind in the Group Read when I had to return my copy to the library) The Road by Cormac McCarthy Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (for my Austen of the year) Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill Also, I should say that for ...

... how depressing a film showing all that violence will be. I can take a pass on that as well. My husband wants to see The Road which will be bad enough.

From the AV list I did enjoy Bel Canto, Middlesex, and The Road. I thought The Blind Assassin was a huge dissapointment (I'm a fan Of Margaret Atwood too). Never Let Me Go is my favorite Ishiguro novel, though I think in general he is overrated. I don't read many new novels-- ...

... Another one of those so-so books I read this year. Post-apocalyptic is hard to pull off. I certainly found this deeper than The Road. But then again, that's easy to do. 35. Blue Diablo by Ann Aguirre Ann Aguirre comes to the urban fantasy arena with this one. I'm not a big urban fantasy ...

I'm reading Far North by Marcel Theroux. Then I'll have to read The Road for comparison, I suppose. Far North is good so far, except that the female voice doesn't always ring true.

>114 - Wow! Your review of Blood Meridian really caught my attention. The only other Cormac McCarthy that I've read is The Road. It was great but somewhat disturbing. Sounds like Blood Meridian might fit that description too.

The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy and Empire Falls by Richard Russo 1. Pulitzer Prize wniners 2. both were made into movies 3. Male authors 4. both the lead characters are fathers 5. both lead Characters are single (one a widower the other divorced) 6 They are ...

... old mistakes. So much for In Watermelon Sugar. Tomorrow will find me on an airplane, getting around at last to reading The Road. Late to the party as ever, on that one.

69. Untamed by P.C. Cast 70. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - I wanted to reread this book before I see the movie. I hope the movie is as good as the book, but I'm not holding my breath!

I finished Maze of Bones, One False Note and Coraline last week, I am still reading The Road (I am almost in the middle of the road :P)

> #1 I recently read both Pump Six and The Windup Girl and loved them both. I recently read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. More literary than sf perhaps, but I think it belongs here. I found The Road to be very dark, grim, bleak, and desolate and definitely very good. The only problem I ...

I have The Road home from the library now to read. I hope I like it as much as you did, Charlotte.

I decided I wanted to read about someplace warm 'cause reading The Road left me always feeling cold. Do other people find that? When you're reading about about characters suffering deprivation you start feeling hungry, or cold, or when they're having a wonderful meal you start craving what they' ...

OOOHhh, The Road. Very different reading after Harry Potter.

38.The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I just finished The Road last night, stayed up 'til past midnight to finish it. Wow. What a story! What writing! That is one amazingly great book. I loved it. I don't think I can start anything today, I just have to let that one sort of rest with me. I'll start something tomorrow. Wow.

... page 200 of a 345-page book. In short, an EMP is survivable; an encounter with these guys would not be such a breeze. Even The Road included some characters with compassion for another person.

... Reluctant Soldiers, a fascinating critique of the Red Army in the years before WWII. Then made a quick read of The Road, a grim, compelling and finally uplifting novel. Now I'm reading On the Roads of War, a memoir of life in the Red Army during WWII.

... a real Kindle is like, and the other to give my ailing eyesight a break. I paid $7.99 for an electric copy of McCarthy's The Road and, reading it on my PC screen, it doesn't feel like a real book (nor does it smell like one). The ability to change font size, however, was wonderful. A ...

... very much, so I'm glad I didn't see the movie. I'm similarly conflicted about whether to go see the movie version of The Road.

Read The Road by Cormac McCarthy yesterday and today. Most unlikely page-turner ever. That's my quota through Week 48.

... my grandmother. But now I need something not quite so sweet, and since the movie is coming out soon, I'm going to start The Road tonight. What a shift, saccharine Victorian melodrama to postapocalyptic darkness. I do love reading.

... are in will continue, they will never get out of their dismal situations. Example: Blindness by Jose Saramago; The Road by Cormac McCarthy. crimson-tide, I'm finding Shantaram rather annoying on a niggly level. The plot's good, but there's too much philosophising. Gotta go, ...

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

... I would love to hear your comments on it :D Like I said before I finished The Girl who played with fire and I started The Road

I'm working my way through The Road (Cormac McCarthy) right now, soon to be followed by The Last Tycoon (F Scott Fitzgerald) and Songmaster (Orson Scott Card). I should be through those three, at least, by the end of the week.

In probably the order I'll read them, I just picked up: The Road - Cormac McCarthy The Last Tycoon - F Scott Fitzgerald Songmaster - Orson Scott Card Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Atonement - I ...

Middlesex and The Color Purple are both magnificent. Guns, Germs and Steel and The Road were well worth reading. Stranger in a Strange Land - very boring the second time (read it first maybe 30 years ago and loved it). You have quite a heavy load there for next year!

I have thought about this a wee bit (especially after having read Cormac McCarthy's The Road last year), but I haven't obsessed over it. I do try to keep enough non-perishables like peanut butter and canned goods in the house to last us a few months in case of a serious natural disaster. FYI, ...

... But nothing too bad. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons was creepy. The one book that has actually disturbed though me is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Not scary, but just downright unpleasant in places.

... the Galaxy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Handmaid's Tale, and Juliet, Naked. I'm thinking I'll start 'Salem's Lot or The Road next. I've been doing an insane amount of reading since I added ebook-reader functionality to my iPod--I end up reading a few pages between classes and during ...

There's an free advance screening of The Road for those who live in the Philly area: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2009/11/free-movie-passes-to-road-in-detroit.php

There's an free advance screening of The Road for those who live in the greater Detroit area: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2009/11/free-movie-passes-to-road-in-detroit.php

... the point where his writing changes (this from other McCarthy fans and reviews) and becomes more reader-friendly. I think THE ROAD and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN are far more commercial and not nearly as psychologically dense and stylistically and thematically fascinating as earlier work like TH ...

... Wtf does that mean? Just started All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy. The only other book by him I've read is The Road - which I quite liked (see here).

Ship of Fools Katherine Ann Portor The Lilac Bus Maeve Binchy Bound for the Promised Land Richard Marius The Road Cormac McCarthy Pacific Coast Highway Alice Starmore

... there's a certain romance with it (must get out the pop culture text and review what's written about it). Remember in The Road? I saw three icons in that story: the gun, the shopping cart, and the Coca Cola can...

I am becoming much more interested in trying The Road it seems to draw out such differences of opinion!

Cormac McCarthy – The road I fail to see why this book won so many accolades. 6/10

Although I thought it was very cool to be invited to this, I disliked The Road so I had/have no interest in seeing the movie. But here's hoping we'll have other opportunities to see other movies through the LT connection.

... to this screening? I'm interested in your impressions/reviews. By the way, I had to laugh at the press release calling The Road a "beloved" novel. There are plenty of words you could use to describe this book, but I'd never use that one.

46 The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Beautifully written story of the journey made by a father and son through a bleak post-apocalyptic world. The style of writing matches the theme perfectly. Every time I broke off reading I would find my thoughts returning to the story.

Book 106 Title: The Road Author: Cormac McCarthy Pages: 176 Read: October 2009 Rating: 4.5 stars After a disaster that almost destroyed all life on earth, a father and his son cross the American landscape that has lost all color and warmth. They manage to take a few things ...

Book 106 Title: The Road Author: Cormac McCarthy Pages: 176 Read: October 2009 Rating: 4.5 stars After a disaster that almost destroyed all life on earth, a father and his son cross the American landscape that has lost all color and warmth. They manage to take a few things ...

For those in the New York City area: If you weren't already aware, Cormac McCarthy's book The Road has been made into a movie. It's coming out around Thanksgiving, and they're inviting LibraryThing members to come and view it, and then participate in a Q&A with the director! It's a great ...

76. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

7| And the winner is... (Booker / Pulitzer) (1) 1. Cormac McCarthy – The road 2. Ernest Hemmingway - The Old Man and the Sea 8| The new world (American classics) 1. John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men Possibilities: Henry Fielding - The history of Tom Jones

Have you tried the dystopian tale: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin? I haven't it but its on my tbr (along with The Road by Cormac McCarthy).

... have to have a tie here between Brave New World by Aldous Huxley which surprised me with its readability and humour, and The Road by Cormas McCarthy which has been one of the most haunting things I've ever read. 5. Retro: Beats, Hippies, 1960s and Counter-Culture (fiction and non-fiction) ...

... as On The Beach which to me is the ultimate post-apocalyptic novel and which shocked me to the core. I also preferred The Road. I found Z for Zachariah less about the effects of the apocalypse and more about the interaction between a young girl and an older man thrown together, and I ...

>16 and 17, Thanks for the suggestions. I have already read both The Road, which I loved, and The Brief History of the Dead, which I thought was ok.

... of the population. Most die, a few must band together for humanity to survive. Wyndham's most popular story.) **** The Road by Cormac McCarthy. (Pulitzer Prize winner, extremely bleak but worth reading.) **** The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (an Antarctic ...

48. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. So effortlessly written. And grey. Very grey. Post-apocalyptical and about surviving, and having something to live for in a world were eveything is dead and covered with ashes.

"Pliers, screwdrivers, wrenches." The Road by Cormac McCarthy "Are you real brave?" I don't know why I used quotation marks since there are none in the book.

I also gave up on The Historian. annie1378 - I enjoyed The Road very much, but I can understand why it is not for everyone.

"No." The Road by Cormac McCarthy "Is is blue?"

... Old Men is certainly a "bad-ass". I also believe several of the characters in Blood Meridian are unpleasant. Indeed, The Road is also full of degenerates, not least the unnamed character called "Baby Eater" in the IMDB entry for the film of the book. What is it with McCarthy? He needs ...

... I will be adding them to my TBR pile. Interestingly enough, I actually do like dystopian literature. I loved McCarthy's The Road and some others that I can't think of right now. I guess there was just something about this dystopian tale that did not work for me. It felt verbose and its like ...

#237 Yup, I have read The Road. I think its absolutely stunning. I can't wait to see the film of it, I would imagine it is going to be good though. Viggo Mortensen as the father is going to be incredible (hopefully).

... for survival and seeing how far a person (or group) will go for that fight is what attracks me to the genre. Have you read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? I hope the movie does it justice! I highly recommend Life As We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer, too. I just seem to be fond of ...

... topic list means that I missed this first time around. Ignore the thread I started. I have not one, but two copies of The Road by Cormac McCarthay. I found them both at a garage sale today. I also found an incredibly battered edition of Pride and Prejudice, which is free with another mooch. ...

The Road. I know it's a cliché, but there you have it.

... Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh" 7) Prize winners: 8/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) iii) Skellig - David Almond (Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award & Carnegie Medal 1998) iv Inkspell - Cornelia Funk ...

Bookmarque It sounds almost like you're describing The Lord of the Flies or The Road.

... 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Musings: Void: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman or Touching the Void by Joe Simpson Fire: The Road by Cormac McCarthy hope that's tenuous enough :)

... (although not out of the realm of possibilities), but staying on my shelves. rockinrhombus - I absolutely loved The Road and would recommend it to anybody. Why do you feel you can't recommend it? Which brings up an interesting point. Would I recommend The Rapture of Canaan? I ...

... books I recommended, convinced me to branch out and read one of his. Fair is fair, I thought. That is how I came to read The Road, which is not a book I can recommend, but I am glad I read it. We were able to discuss it, and it was a little payback for me sneaking books into his car at work!

... easy for the characters in McCarthy's books. But, like you said, there is a lot of hope as well. I really didn't find The Road to be any darker than any other end-of-the-world novel. I love that his characters undergo such difficult times, yet ultimately they keep going. They never give ...

... Waugh 7) Prize winners: 6/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 iii) Skellig - David Almond (Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award & Carnegie Medal 1 ...

... I would read some of the others so you get a feel for him first. I don't find his work bleak, really. For instance, The Road is one everyone says is dark but I found a great deal of hope in it; the relationship between the father and son and the lengths he goes to in protecting his son. ...

... Li. 4 stars. This book was just plain depressing. It left me with the same feeling I had after reading McCarthy's The Road -- kinda sucker punched. The writing is more lyrical than McCarthy's but the story is BLEAK! Set in post Cultural Revolution China, it portrays the desolate ...

... Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 3. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 4. Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow 5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 6. French Milk by Lucy Knisley 7. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 8. The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu 9. The V ...

Cormac McCarthey's The Road keeps popping up on my Amazon recommendations page so that makes it a fairly easy pick from hojeb's library.

Thanks whitewave! I enjoyed The Road very much and I'm curious to see how the movie will be. This was my first by McCarthy...I'll put Outer Dark on the wishlist. Thanks for the suggestion!

19. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

... Carl Hiaasen 6. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg 7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 8. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 9. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 10.

... the heck out of me when someone posts how fabulous a book is when I hated it (or it made me literally sick in the case of The Road) So now that I finished The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell I have started reading The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. The summary on ...

I am going to echo everything DrNeutron said - I finally discovered McCarthy this year, and have loved The Road, No Country for Old Men, and All the Pretty Horses. He is such a gritty writer, and his books are anything but cheerful, but I have found that they contain a lot of insight and ...

... is easily one of my favorite authors, and that ambiguity over the ending is one of hte reasons. If you haven't read The Road yet, give it a try. I'm also in the middle of his Border trilogy starting with All the Pretty Horses, another really fine work.

July: And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass The Road by Cormac McCarthy Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski

July: And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass The Road by Cormac McCarthy Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski

Hello Jillianmarie What did you think of The Road? I read it earler this year after putting it off because of the subject matter, but I'm very glad I read it, even though it is very bleak.

39. He's Just Not That Into You it came free with a magazine I was on a coach..there's no excuses really 40. The Road

... their actions. A really interesting and enthralling look at what might happen, it was less bleak than books such as The Road, and because of this seemed more realistic as well. 5 out of 5 A classic for a reason

So you didn't like The Road...whyever not? It's such a fine piece of imaginitive literature! *gag* I can't even finish the joke. I hated that book.

hated The Road ick. I gave up on The Invention of Everything Else because Crow Lake started jumping up and down and calling out to me instead. . will have a go at Invention another time....

I finished The Road this afternoon when I got home from work (yay for hubby cooking. This is one of the times when a non-reading spouse is good). A very bleak, sparse book. It falls into the category of good, well-written, but not enjoyable books. Blindness by Jose Saramago is much the same for ...

... going with the Fred Hollows Autobiography and War and Peace, but they have had to take a back seat to my book club book: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I'm reading it quickly, but am finding it quite harrowing. The writing matches the sparseness and bleakness of the story.

Cormac McCarthy, La route, il serait temps que je passe à des lectures plus légères, c'est de plus en plus plombé ! J'ai été scotchée par ce livre qui narre extraordinairement la survie d'un père et son fils à travers un monde dévasté. C'est haletant, c'est tendre c'est humain ...

I never understood how The Road by Cormac McCarthy could have been a "great" book. It was hard to understand and because of the lack of modern grammar and dialogue, I had a hard time understand it! I know that it was post-apocalyptic and what the general idea was, but I found it way too ...

... reread) 13) Sharpe's Tiger - Bernard Cornwell (999: 4) 14) Towards Another Summer - Janet Frame (not 999) 15) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (999: 7) - Reviewed 16) 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff (999: 3) 17) Playing Beatie Bow - Ruth Park (not 999; ...

I read Z for Zachariah a couple of years ago when it was mentioned as being similar to The Road which I had just read.

30. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Beautiful and utterly bleak.

... Dimitrova 6. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke 7. Lady Into Fox by David Garnett 8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy* 9. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya 10. Windflower by Nick Bantock 11. One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry 12. Bronx Masquerade ...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy Slaughterhouse Five be Kurt Vonnegut A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Life of Pi by Yann Martel

... the character without revealing twists that have been a pleasure to discover. A dystopian novel but quite different from The Road.

Has no one examined Cormac McCarthy's The Road? It's been several years since I read it, but it keeps haunting me. A nuclear catastrophe could happen by accident, mistake, mis-understanding...In the late 40's Neville Shute's novel On the Beach was condemned by some people who believed that ...

I'll jump in there and give you my answer, alans ~ The Road on audio was brilliant. The reader was wonderful. I think I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much if I'd read it in book form. I also listened to No Country for Old Men. It was almost too well done ~ I had to stop in the ...

I just started The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

... Burgess (although I suspect A Clockwork Orange will stay in print longer) The Innocent, Ian McEwan (his best book) The Road, Cormac McCarthy Possession, AS Byatt The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott

I just finished The Book of Night Women and I'm about to start The Road

... to agree to disagree. I thought it was STUNNING. Here's a side note: my 13 year old son, Sam, is reading McCarthy's THE ROAD. I tried to warn him off it, telling him how dark and hopeless it was but he heard me praise it to someone else and is determined to give it a crack. Yikes...

Now that I think of it, The Road and the first parts of Canticle for Leibowitz are pretty grim. Still, I think Miller was probably optimistic to imagine a second advanced future for humankind.

I think you'd have to include The Shipping News, and also Thousand Acres, and The Road. Gritty, all three.

Ah, I love serendipitous reading like that - it happened to me with Towards Another Summer and The Road - not at all similar stories, but both books read like a train of subconscious thought and worked very well together... Sounds like you're enjoying Tender is the Night more than I did ...

... blew me away. If I had to rank them in order of preference, it would be as follows: 1. Slaughterhouse Five 2. The Road 3. The Girls from Ames 4. Act of Love Act of Love was just strange and condescending. I actually didn't think I would finish it. The Girls from Am ...

... bunch this weekend. Reviews to follow: 33. Act of Love 34. The Girls from Ames 35. Slaughterhouse Five 36. The Road

The Road is an incredible book. I will definitely reread it prior to the movie. I'm glad you enjoyed The Host. I did read the Twilight books, and liked all but the last. I hope we see a sequel to The Host at some point. I've just started reading Brother Odd.

I finished The Road at the weekend and am so glad I overcame my dread of the subject matter and read it. It is one of the most powerful and heartbreaking books I have ever read, although I can imagine that not everyone would want to immerse themselves in a world so bleak for any length of time. ...

drneutron, I've been thinking about rereading The Road after watching the movie. I read it the day it was released into stores and I think it's stuck in my mind rather well. It'll be interesting to see if I remember it as well as I think I do. billiejean, thanks for reminding me about Don Quix ...

45. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Wow, what a book. It's heart-breaking, and at the same time, reminds that in even the worst circumstances, there's good in people that bad times can't completely drive away. I love McCarthy's depiction of a post-apocalyptic world - there's no worries here ...

So far, my only re-read this year has been The Road in anticipation of the movie later this year. I usually do 5-10 re-reads per year out of about 100, so I'm sure more will come along.

Read so far... Stephen's picks 1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin (27th May) 3. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T.E. Carhart (30 June) 4. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (26 July) 5. Under the Paw by Tom Cox (28 July) 6. 7. 8. 9.

... for another good review on The Outcast and another book for the TBR mountain. #295 I have also seen the trailer for The Road and it does look really good. It will be one movie that I go to for sure.

... see it again for a long time. THat's the way of the used book gods! By the way, I hunted up and viewed a trailer for The Road movie with Viggo Mortenson. It looks quite good!

I rather liked The Road, Bridget, and am looking forward to the movie of it. I got a lonely book (but a good one) in the mail today: The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister.

I finally found a good used bookstore. I bought: The Road Potato Peel Society Nixon and Kissinger I guess I was in a weird mood!

The Road Maybe you didn't select the right one. Robert

I've just started The Road by Cormac McCarthy. From the little I've read, the landscape seems very bleak and I'm guessing the subject matter is too, but the quality of the writing should carry me through, I think.

... very books I've been meaning to get around to reading for ages but haven't. So I'm taking a deep breath and embarking on The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I hope I can cope with the grim subject matter.

It'll be interesting to see the Road as a movie. Only two characters carrying a whole movie by themselves, especially when one is a little kid, should be an interesting challenge.

... 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy - excellent 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - excellent 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Very sad ~ ...

... 4 1/2 star from this year: Peace by Richard Bausch De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage Five-star books from last year: The Road by Cormac McCarthy Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson - nothing has matched this since I've read it.

I picked up The Road at Half-Price Books last night.

... Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake to the list of dystopias written post 9/11 (2004, I think). Unlike The Pesthouse or The Road though, hers is satirical.

... and Crake, as with this new novel, she writes a story which, in some parts are as bad-ass and suspenseful as McCarthy's The Road, but she adds this satirical, mordant humor that just is hilarious in places.

... proofreading. How can I count Algebra textbooks in my 2007 list? Oh well, I can read some over the weekend. I loved The Road by McCarthy. I'll take at look at All the Pretty Horses; it sounds great.

... I'm definitely finishing the Borderlands trilogy. And sometime in the next couple of weeks, I'm squeaking in a re-read of The Road as my way of looking forward to the movie!

... - Kim Stanley Robinson (24) City of Glass - Cassandra Clare (25) Hunted: A House of Night Novel - P.C. Cast (26) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (27) North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter - Sakie Yokota (28) The Devious Book for Cats: A Parody (29) The Intellectual Devotional: American ...

I have read the last two, drN. Liked them both. After reading The Road it would take a lot to drag me into another McCarthy. I look forward to that review especially :) safe travel.

Congrats on reaching 75!!!! By the way though I agree that The Road and The Book Thief are nothing alike, I do believe that there is a glimmer of hope in The Road. It is more subtle and not as assured as the hope The Book Thief offers but its there all the same.

The Book Thief is NOTHING like The Road The Book Thief has promise and love and hope implied.. The Road is horror after horror after evil horror... imho ahem.

... and an Everyman's Library edition of the short stories of Raymond Chandler, as well as very nice copies of Possession and The Road.

Hi Carmenere I haven't read The Road. Can you tell me about it. thanks. #164, Thanks to you and Stasia for telling me about Hana's Suitcase. It is one of my top reads for 2009. #165...Thanks for your kind words. Please do try to find Hana's Suitcase. It is a very powerful book.

For all those fans of The Road/SIFI out there: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/apr/20/john-christopher-death-grass And here's a link to the crop disease mentioned in the previous article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19425983.700-billions-at-risk-from-wheat-supe ...

Well, you have convinced me to read The Road at the earliest possible opportunity. What an evocative review. I will lay in a supply of flowers and cheerful movies in preparation... Sorry for the accidental double post.

7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5 stars, a re-read - just as brilliant as I remember. I'd been craving a re-read of this book and I went out and bought it this afternoon and read the whole thing this evening. 8. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea Poems by ...

(26) The Road - Cormac McCarthy SPOILERS FOLLOW A new author for me. I read this because its a futuristic dystopia/post-apocalypse story, rather than because of McCarthy. Most of the ...

... to yell "Cheesy!" (an indication of serious immaturity on my part). I go back and forth between thinking the ending of The Road was excessively sentimental, if that tells you anything. Its interesting how it was marketed - at least to me, I heard of it because my boyfriend's younger ...

... been travelling and am a little behind on my updates. I've still got to share my absolutely revolutionary thoughts about The Road, which I know you all are dying for (heavy on the self-mockery here...) and update my reading, which has actually been rather productive. Here's what I'm ...

Another great review. I read The Road earlier this year an enjoyed it. All the Pretty Horses sounds just as good, on to the TBR pile it goes.

... like McCarthy's novels are thought-provoking and beautifully written. I had always stayed away from his books (other than The Road, which I liked very much), because I thought of them as books about "cowboys." I think I'll have to give him a try.

... up Drood, and I think it would make a pretty good movie. 12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? The Road. At least not the big studio version that's apparently in the works. There's just no way they're going to be able to do the book justice with so much money on the ...

Nice one ER on The Road. I have read Suttree and No Country for Old Men but I thought the Road sounded like too much of a downer. Maybe if Ulysses leaves me in too euphoric of a mood I'll read it next. After Great Gatsby which is now next on my tbr pile.

I found The Road to be a strangely uplifting book and liked it a lot. Do you have any plans as to where you're starting for the memorisation? Post 'em on the thread and we'll encourage, just see if we don't (he says knowing he is safe from having to do this himself for another week or so).

32. The Road by Cormac McCarthy A simply written and powerfully evocative post-apocalyptic vision, the memory of which will stay will me long after I close the pages of this book. There was almost unbearable poignancy in the relationship depicted, of a father and son struggling to survive in ...

... comes to books." I haven't read a lot of the books she has chosen, but I have read, and loved, The Reader, Night, and The Road. Plus, she has chosen a lot of classics too - Anna Karenina, East of Eden, Love in the Time of Cholera - and I know a lot of people who have read them ...

>188 So, are you saying that The Road doesn't compare favorably to other dystopias? Or that the differences are jarring enough for you not to like it? I go back and forth on whether I want to read this one: I generally quite like dystopias, but the bleakness turns me off. I have read and ...

... First it tells I am not alone. And second, I can see what I don't even have to try to read. Such a relief. I did read The Road. Easy peasy writing. Very suitable for the subject which is, in a bunch of words: the total lack of hope. Nothing left. Over. Kaput. Going to die. Nothing ...

>17 Nice review of The Road, which I also found amazing. It's not often that the style and construction of a book contribute so greatly to evoking emotions in the reader -- in this case, desolation, which didn't make it exactly pleasant. I too saw the ultimate message as hope, though it ...

... the less expectation one brings to it, the more ensnared they are by it." Good observation - I agree. When I read The Road, I had never read anything by McCarthy and only knew that it was about the aftermath of some sort of global catastrophe. So for me, the first thing that sucked me ...

... for 2009 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 241 pages / 2006 / 5 stars / Fiction / 4-4-2009 An amazing book, Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a story of survival; of surviving ...

To all readers of The Road: I have had a copy for about a year now, but I haven't read it yet. I am saving it for a day when I feel really bleak, depressed, and generally disgusted with the world. Why waste a bad mood. >181 Miss Price: I wonder if Murr has read The Devious Book for Cat ...

... Category/1 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 241 pages / 2006 / 5 stars / Fiction / 4-4-2009 An amazing book, Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a story of survival; of surviving ...

... discussed could have been taken straight from my cats' daily activities. This book made me laugh & I needed that after The Road. A good addition to my collection of cute cat books.

... on.com/images/P/193428744X.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> (yes, I know I skipped #26 - still collecting my thoughts on The Road, which I loved) An early reviewer's book from December that came way late & I'm now just getting around to reading and reviewing. This is one of those books ...

I loved The Road, loved No Country for Old Men, loved Pretty Horses. I think if you buy into his style, you are hooked. He is a great star in the pantheon of modern American fiction. (And do you need another pat on the back, Fanny? OK, here it is.) :-)

>175 I'm someone who really loved The Road. For me, it was the writing style, which I found beautiful. And I rather liked the biblical tone. Like Squeaky said, if you like the beginning, you're almost sure to like the entire book. And I'm another one who hopes you keep posting, boring reading ...

... because the books aren't fulfilling...its a vicious cycle. Anyway, the other night I started Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which I've been meaning to read for way too long. I don't mean to sound like a fawning idiot, especially since I'm only 10 pages into the book and may decide it ...

Welcome! What did you think of The Road?

... would say, yes to the latter. I'm still thinking about the former). One of the first books that popped into my head was The Road by Cormac McCarthy (I know, I'm taking some liberties here choosing a man-book:-). The wife/mother kills herself. I remember thinking that that seemed contrived ...

... exact phrase used rather than go to the "most popular" work that uses the words in the phrase. For example, touchstone for The Road by Cormac McCarthy brings up On the Road by Jack Kerouac first - because On the Road has more copies than The Road. Not surprisingly, edited to fix a ...

I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road last year, and it was definitiely one of my favorite books for 2008. I was just talking to my daughter (she's just starting to pick up writing) about how a great author doesn't just tell a story, but uses his/her writing to convey emotions and pictures, as well. ...

I've got The Road on my TBR pile. I better bump it up!

Read Amphigorey Again and finished The Road. Gorey's book held fabulous, intricate illustrations and unusual tales. McCarthy's novel was full of darkness, desolation, and despair. Both fantastic reads, but for completely different reasons. I love Gorey's art, so his book was a nice, easy ...

13. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Wow. This book is phenomenal. I figured that it would take me a few days to read this, given my current workload. Nope--less than 24 hours. Completely riveting. McCarthy did an excellent job capturing the desolation and despair of post-apocalyptic America.

... more the human condition and the piddling day to day crap that people do to survive that I enjoy. Although oddly enough, The Road which I should have loved, I did not. I didn't have any feelings on it one way or the other. The way it just dropped in with no backstory, and the way the ...

8/50 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Bookclub book.) I don't know if this is something I would have been compelled to pick up on my own, but I'm very glad that this was a book club selection. It's strange that I liked it so much, since it's a book that has not much happening in it. It's ...

Might as well just read The Road to kids as a bedtime story. And let's not even go near traditional nursery rhymes. "Ring a ring a rosy..."

... with this book as I loved his writing style and I will definitely be reading more of his books in the future. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Category: Dystopia So much has already been written about this book already - the main points that come up being that it doesn't have much ...

I don't think there is an optimal age for The Road at all - I'd recommend it to anyone. Are you thinking of On the Road instead - that I certainly think needs to be read before you reach 20.

... target="_blank"> The Road by Cormac McCarthy No where near the difficult read I was expecting, but in all other ways it exceeded my expectations. I'd heard complaints about a lack of ...

... But there's still a part of me that thinks "Grrr! The Yiddish Policemen's Union is an Alternate History! Argh! The Road is post-apocalyptic story and belongs with the Speculative Fiction! Who put that there?"

I will look for that series. Thanks! On another note, has anyone read McCarthy's The Road? did you see the funny review today on the LT front page? "What the hell. Nothing ever happens in this book. Ash. Cold. Hunger. Push a shopping cart. Repeat for a boring ass 287 pages. I don't give a ...

... what a book. It's dystopean and shows the worst of humanity, but also some of the best. In a lot of ways, it reminded me of The Road, not the least because of the unconventional but captivating use of language.

February was a slow month, but definitely The Road by Cormac McCarthy was the best.

... leading up to its release last year and I have never even bothered to pick it up. Hype I believed and was disappointed: The Road by Cormac McCarthy and The Gathering by Anne Enright.

... d by Catherine Asaro p 45-48 ********** Thursday 8 January 2009 The Night Bird by Catherine Asaro p 48-66 The Road by Cormac McCarthy p 3-14 ********** Friday 9 January 2009 The Night Bird by Catherine Asaro p 66-200 From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Rel ...

... on, it became more and more...not intriguing, I guess, but engaging maybe? What bothers me most about books like this and The Road is not how far-fetched they are but how we just don't seem that far away from those kind of things. A little scary. Still, I enjoyed them both. Probably liked T ...

... read. Plus The Declaration by Gemma Malley which is a Young Adult dystopian novel. I plan to read Handmaid's Tale, The Road and something by John Wyndham but not sure what yet. The rest are still open.

... this very much, but am going to review it later as my brain is clearly not in gear enough to do it properly... 15) The Road - Cormac McCarthy 999 Category 7: Prize Winners (Pulizer 2007) (2/9) Recommended by several people on LT. A father and his son travel across America ...

... an example of being pleasantly surprised, would have to think about that. However, I have found myself disappointed (i.e. The Road). Sometimes I think hype threatens to rob me of my own experience of a book; maybe I don't like the pressure of the expectations to like the book . . . (that's it, ...

... Burger's Daughter two years ago and don't remember noticing the lack of quotation marks. A lot of you must of read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Do you think the lack of quotation marks had any effect there? Is it really style or 'coolness'?

... about the lack of quotation marks and what effect/s do you think it had? I have noticed this in three books I've read: The Road, The Idea of Perfection, and the forthcoming The Winter Vault. I thought the lack of quotation marks created a distance between the reader and the character or ...

... on dialogue punctuation - I've come across the lack missing quotation marks a lot lately, always new or new-ish books. (The Road, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Sweetsmoke (where the free people have quotation marks and the black slaves don't), etc) It hasn't bothered me. The ...

>re: lack of quotation marks in a novel. I've read several books in which the authors do not use quotation marks - The Road, The Idea of Perfection and the forthcoming The Winter Vault. I can't say whether this is the authors' style or not, I've not cared enough to compare with other works, ...

... away for later re-reading, but other books I just chuck (or put up on BookMooch). Recent rejects are Foucault's Pendulum, The Road, and Cloud Atlas. I've set aside Beloved because I think I might re-read it again, but the first few pages was just not that interesting. We'll see. I have a ...

... and I decided to start a Nobel lit group (we call it the Nobel Three), and this was one of our picks. Almost gave up on The Road, but decided to push through. Not sure now what I gained by doing that.

Did the publisher actually refuse to submit The Road to the ACCA? That seems odd since 1997's winner, The Calcutta Chromosome, was published by the same company, Picador.

... Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Road by Cormac McCarthy Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

... forthcoming The City & the City. I love his stuff for the sheer inventiveness of what's in it. I was less impressed with The Road than most readers, it seems. I thought it a somewhat emotionally contrived, neo-Western and I will forever associate it with the Bush years. It's classic post 9/11 ...

Here's what I thought of The Road. I have read Perdido Street Station but I couldn't get as excited about it as everyone else seemed to be.

>161 That probably wasn't the first time such an event occured, and certainly wasn't the last. To take a recent example, The Road could've been in contention for a SF novel prize but the publisher refused to provide any copies of it for consideration. There was another book which too fell victim ...

... between mainstream (and literary) and SF. There is cross-fertilisation with literary people writing SF (e.g. McCarthy's The Road) either consciously or unconsciously. Very often as HoldenCarver says they are not that different in quality from comparable real SF despite receiving raves from ...

... written. I'd also observe that while plenty of literary critics may have been greatly impressed by Cormac McCarthy's The Road, it's not actually that far removed from many other works of post-apocalyptic fiction, quality-wise. Finally, to bring this post full circle, Sturgeon ...

... agree that one doesn't read McCarthy for plot. It's all about the language and the characters with him. I didn't see The Road as either uplifting or discouraging. He presents real, human characters in a situation and makes you interested in them. No Country For Old Men is the same way.

>64 - I totally agree about The Road. It's strength lies in the writing style and the emotional connections, not the actual plot. I would encourage everyone to read it, as it really was an outstanding novel.

>63 Thanks Tad, fixed typo. re: The Road: Also, be aware that what Wings said isn't THE end, it's just a part of the end. It really doesn't give away the entire book. And it's hard to describe, but The Road is really not about plot. Yes, things happen, but not really a lot. It's far more ...

>61 Zoe - It seems like a lot of people disagree about whether The Road is bleak or uplifting. I think it's both, and for me the scales tipped to uplifting. I think this was one of the best books I've read in the bast few years, and would highly recommend it. If nothing else, revel in the way McCa ...

>51 - Wings, I think you need a SPOILER ALERT in your message. I have not read The Road (on the list for this year), and now I know something I probably did not want to know before reading it.

>63 - The Road was amazing, wasn't it! So far, it is my top read of the year!

Just wanted to send a big THANK YOU for recommending The Road last year. I just listened to the audiobook (read incredibly by Tom Stechschulte), and I don't know that I've ever been so moved by a book. Wonderful.

17. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Wow. Probably one of the most powerful, saddest, optimistic, and all-around fabulous books I have ever experienced. I listened to the audio book narrated by Tom Stechschulte, which was a wonderful way to experience it. Scary because it's a world that may ...

My favourites for January: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier The Road by Cormac McCarthy Quiver by Peter Leonard Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz Swimmers Rope by Stephanie Johnson

... get into it despite liking Atwood's other books, including her 'futuristic' The Handmaid's Tale and also books such as The Road etc. I tried to read it 3 times and all 3 times I only got about 100 pages in before stalling.

Stasia: Me too, anything like The Road, World War Z, Blindness etc. I wonder what it is about apocalyptic or dystopian ideas that appeal so much. Have you read Eva, a young adults book by Peter Dickinson? Thats an exceptionally well written book about the demise of humans and the ...

... evocation of a lost time, being lost even then. (And a violent time too, some scenes were disturbing, but not up there with The Road.) I need to find more McCarthy to read.

I've never read Race For the thingy thingy, but i've read The Road. >#6: drop the gummy bear and kick it over here, ma'am.

Here's What I've read so far: The Road By Cormac McCarthy (Fantasy/Futuristic) A modern classic. McCarthy creates a world that is post-nuclear war. In this story, a man and his son have to fight freezing temperatures, hunger, and cannibals in order to survive. Very disturbing at parts, but ...

... Little Mistakes comes immediately to mind), I read things I wouldn't have read otherwise. Two stunners this year were The Road and Independent People. As many suggestions as I get through LT, I would never have picked those books from what I read here. We meet for 2 hours, have ...

Hello AWilkins, lots of neat reads on your list - we share quite a few: Watchmen, Brave New World, The Road, Maus. I've already read Watchmen - not the best book I ever read (it was my first Graphic Novel), but worth it - I liked it. And I read The Monk last year - I really enjoyed ...

>4, The Road will be my introduction to Cormac McCarthy too! I fell in love with Haruki Murakami when I read After Dark, but many other people who have read more of his works and been fans for longer did not like it. I have a tendency to gravitate towards books that are moody, ...

... of the time I put into it. It's an early contender for my Best of 2009 list. I chased that most excellent book with The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It was deep and meaningful and all that, but I was expecting a lot more from it on an emotional level. Next up was Foundation by Mer ...

... happens to Oedipus' daughters after he dies and his two sons kill each other fighting over control of the kingdom. Also, The Road is a good one...good for you for putting it on your wish list :)

Ok, I've finally given in and put The Road on my wishlist. I'm not sure why I've resisted this one so much, especially since every once seems to like it so much! BTW, Did you like Antigone?

... of fluff and hackwork. I've been in conversation with some of Sher's female friends and when I mentioned Oprah and THE ROAD, one of them piped up with: "I couldn't get into THE ROAD--it was such a guy's book." And her friend nodded agreement. Perhaps all of this is anecdotal--but I ...

I have also read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and thought it was really good. I am going to now read a few of his others. Will be keeping watch to see what you think of his other books.

Book No. 17 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 4 stars A man and a boy, father and son, “each the other's world entire,” walk a road in “the ashes of the late world.” In this book McCarthy envisions a postapocalyptic scenario. Cities have been destroyed, plants and animals have died, ...

27. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Finished 19 January 09

... which said a lot about her character without saying anything at all. I'm interested to see what you think of The Road and The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I've read The Road, and have heard mixed opinions, and have heard nothing but good things about The Wondrous Life...

... and intelligent, yet naive and confused. A great book club book, definitely discussable. 2. Blood Meridian. I read The Road last year and was initially unimpressed, but then grew to appreciate it. I haven't read No Country For Old Men yet, but loved the movie.

... me think, it was enjoyable and I would certainly recommend it! If you like books like The Five People You Meet In Heaven, The Road, and The Lovely Bones, this had elements of all of them. Wonderful poetic writing, a plot that makes you think and want to know more, and characters that colour ...

7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy I read this book for a face-to-face book club. The novel tells the story of a father and son making their way across the country after.....it never really says what happened. Some sort of global destruction; from one paragraph it seems it was probably ...

Hey Jacey25 - I read The Road recently, and I also loved it. I checked No Country for Old Men out of the library, and so far it is just as good! McCarthy is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors :)

Among other books I'm reading right now is The Road by Cormac McCarthy and wow I am blown away; such a beautiful way with the written word- so evocative. This is the first novel I've read by him and I think there will be more to follow.

... I'm holding off on the larger books until after my degree work is finished. While I was not as enamored with The Road as most, I thought Cormac McCarthy might deserve a closer look some time, if for no other reason then to look at what he's doing with his neo-westerns (at least ...

... it. It certainly has a slower pace than some post-apocalyptic novels, but I got through it very quickly. I'll be reading The Road this year; from everything I've heard, I'm sure I will like it.

Thanks suslyn and Cait86. I credit The Road for reigniting my passion for fiction. For years before I picked it up, I read essays, histories, etc. exclusively. I'm pleased that I took a chance on that book on an impulse buy in Borders one day. One of the best purchases I've ever made because of ...

Hi Omphaloskepsis, I read The Road last week, and to say that I loved it would be an understatement :) so I will have to try are find The Pesthouse. Thanks for the review!

... Crace on NPR's "Diane Rehm Show," I thought of the other recent successful post-apocalyptic novel, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." I loved "The Road," so, for whatever illogical reason, I was expecting similar great things from Crace's novel. I was not disappointed, but I got something I ...

... p://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wRiIP25/counter.png"> Books read: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008) The Road (2007) Middlesex (2003) The Color Purple (1983) Advise and Consent (1960) The Old Man and the Sea (1953) Gone with the Wind (1937) One of Ours (19 ...

#42 Dianestm - I hope you like The Road - I can't wait to read more McCarthy!

I just finished How I Live Now and loooved it. Kind of like The Road for kids!

... in hearing what you thought of it when you read it. I'll probably read Fahrenheit 451 from your list too and perhaps The Road. I like your D category.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Road by Cormac McCarthy Timbuktu* by Paul Auster Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Mystic Arts of Erasing all Signs of Death* by Charlie Huston *A couple of these I had rated at 4 stars right after I read them, but the ...

In the last few days I finished The Road and The White Tiger - both wonderful reads! 4 read, 77 to go - and since I go back to school tomorrow, I am guessing my reading rate will slow quite a bit :(

One of the last ones of 2008 on my list was No Country for Old Men. The style is similar to The Road, and perfectly suits the dry, dusty Texas it's set in. If you liked this one, you probably like it too. Warning, though, there's a bit of violence...

Book #3: The Road by Cormac McCarthy My year of reading started out with a bang - three great books right off the bat! The Road was my first McCarthy novel, and he goes on my list of authors to read. This novel was everything a novel should be - emotionally moving, ...

Links in this first message take you to the message in which I wrote my review. Here are my tickers: Noisy in Bug Collectors : Blood Meridian show 'The Road' book covers (Jan 1, 2009, 10:41am)

Not quite all ... some links would be nice. Blood Meridian The Road

It's not yet midnight here but I'll still be reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I didn't really know what it was about before I picked it but I'm pleasantly suprised with it. The only thing I don't really care for is the style of writing like the sentence structure. I like the character ...

... bought/borrowed before 2009) list: 1. Lord of the Dance by Andrew Greeley 2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 3. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

So far, I've received The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I expect to receive more when I visit my parents tomorrow night.

The Host by Stephenie Meyer The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Hidden City: The House Wars: Book One by Michelle West The King’s Shield: Inda: Book 3 by Sherwood Smith The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold Ender's Game by Scott Orson Card

... of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester 2 Pulitzer Prize winners: The Road by Cormac McCarthy March by Geraldine Brooks With a Wisconsin connection: Driftless by David Rhodes The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski ...

I finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness last week, and finished The Road this morning. Haven't decided what to read next. I won't get most of my Christmas books until later in the week when I visit my parents. In the meantime, I'll likely continue to read some short stories from The Sa ...

#5 Recieved The Road for Christmas. This is a gripping tale, and I couldn't put it down. It's a stunning novel of morality, despair and hope.

I finished The Road on the 24th, now I am going to read Watchmen before the film gets released. I have a review posted about the former ;-)

... paid off.." & when WILL I get all my charge cards paid off?" Sometimes I think a catastrophe that happened in the book The Road is the only thing that will end the everlasting chargecard balance...

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton The Road by Cormac McCarthy Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson The Road Home by Rose Tremain The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

... of the Earth by Ken Follett Duma Key by Stephen King A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Road by Cormac McCarthy Mudbound by HIllary Jordan World War Z by Max Brooks The Host by Stephanie Meyer

>11 ireed, I am not a fan of The Road so I can honestly say that I don't know it's excellent. I found it average. The Lightman got a Pearl-Rule 50pp and then went out my door. So not interested in it. Sounds like you're on the same page on that book! SNOW DAY! No grocery shopping! No ...

... comments, it's going right onto my wishlist. Anyway, I have just finished reading Duma Key by Stephen King and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and I have begun Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence. Duma Key was as good as I expected. I found the combination of ...

... o. I wrote a review. I am going to take a break from the Tower and go down another road for a while... I'll be reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

50. TaDAAA! I did it. 8-) The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This is a holy shit book. Relentless. 5 stars.

... of these might be from 2007. The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter. On of the best books set in Middle ages. the Road by Cormac McCarthy Scarey because we keep coming closer & closer to this destination. Empire Falls Richard Russo. A good reead & well-written. The March by ...

I've got The Riverside Chaucer, which of course includes The Canterbury Tales, next to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Two very different travelogues.

Have just started latest Wally Lamb am enjoying just getting into the angst of it all plus have just finished The Road by cormac mccarthy.. loved it , gripping and terribly sad...

The obvious guess would be Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Do you remember what the cover looked like? I'm asking because I remember a small press zombie book that features a road on the cover, with a zombie hand popping out and it was called something like Twilight of the Dead or Eve of ...

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Middlemarch, George Eliot To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee The Road, Cormac McCarthy Wise Children, Angela Carter

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton The Road by Cormac McCarthy Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

This list doesn't include rereads, because this list is long enough! Gentlemen of the Road The Road Fragile Things Heart-Shaped Box Coraline Night Watch Reaper Man Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Flowers For Algernon No Country For Old Men The 19th Wife Mort A ...

You should read Hiroshima and The Road back to back, in that order. They are both excellent and, of course, have much in common; albeit one is non-fiction, the other fiction.

... (only counting book lovers like me..) that I should definitely read it.. One of my acquaintances also recommended me The Road as well..

... of Suzuki's Ring. So far it's pretty good - his terse style reminds me of some of Cormac McCarthy's stuff, especially The Road.

... 'science fiction'-- because apparently all apocalyptic fiction is science fiction-- but it's no more science fiction than The Road is. It's about other things. It's about humanity in the same way that The Road is. But it's very different. Absolutely no reason not to read that book.

... library sales throughout the year just to put in my BM inventory. Sometimes they are books which are in high demand like The Road and Twilight, other times it is literary fiction. Thus, I don't have the slightest bit of guilt about the few I put on reserve. I agree with others though, ...

Welcome! Nice list. I really liked The Road too. We're doing this again next year, so be sure to join up!

... I had the free time to do it. Medieval peasants are cool beans. Out of all the one's I've read so far, though, I think The Road was my favourite.

... (Penguin Classics) Uncle Fred in the Springtime (A Blandings Story) The Children of Men Burmese Days: A Novel The Road (Oprah's Book Club) No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) Perfume Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Maus: A Survivor's Tale V for Vendetta F ...

... by John Sandford 68. Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman -- I recommend this set of short stories by Lippman. 69. The Road by Cormac McCarthy -- Pulitzer prize for fiction 2007. Movie being released in 2009. I'm thinking of concentrating on Pulitzer prize winners in 2009.

... by Richard Matheson. Also a classic! Earth Abides by George R. Steward. Yet another classic in its genre. In time, The Road by Cormac McCarthy may be one as well. 6. Ghosts & Demons Bag of Bones and Lisey's Story by Stephen King. I guess they will complement ...

... Golding. 5. Post Apocalypse & Dystopian: The Stand by Stephen King, Swan Song by Robert McCammon, The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. 6. Ghosts & Demons: Ghost Story by Peter Straub, The Parasite by Ramsey Campbell ...

I really didn't like The Road. I generally enjoy(?) post-apocalyptic novels so I read this in spite of Oprah's recommendation. I should have gone with my first instinct and avoided it.

most of Cormac McCarthy's work would fall under this list. Especially The Road which I just re-read, and Blood Meridian, mentioned above. American Psycho was a terrible book, a complete waste of the paper it was printed on. A recent read, 1491 by Charles C. Mann detailed how ...

... in Antarctica, sets out across the continent to look for help. Her struggles are described vividly by Brockmeier. Not since The Road have I been so worried for a character in a book. I was on the edge of my seat. This is the first book that I've read by Brockmeier, and now I want to read ...

My nudge is for The Idea of Perfection as it is a very enjoyable read. I found The Road and On Chesil Beach amazingly powerful and wrenching stories - well worth it but be prepared. Great bunch of books. I love these bookshelves!

... Time Storm* by Gordon Rupert Dickson 4. The Chameleon Variant* by Carol K. Mack 5. Mockingbird* by Walter Tevis 6. The Road* by Cormac McCarthy 7. The Speed of Dark* by Elizabeth Moon 8. Jumper* by Steven Gould 9. Down to a Sunless Sea* by David Graham Selected my first book ...

... about it. Stone Diaries I read a very long time ago and remember liking, but must confess that my memory is very hazy. The Road was one of the top books I read in the last few years, so definitely my choice out of your pile.

Nice bookpile! I would choose March or The Road. You have a great group to choose from!

... Brooks Empire Falls by Richard Russo The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Stiff by Mary Roach The Road by Cormac McCarthy Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates Edited due to this being ...

Finished The Road and I've done gone reviewed it. Now reading Al Reynold's House of Suns.

To be fair to Oprah, she picks some good books. The Road was an Oprah pick, and I think Moondust was too (um, that might have been Richard & Judy).

... comments with the idea that maybe I should schedule reading books the way I do writing. I've been reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road forever. Of course, the road the characters on is always so bleak, I can only take so much of it at a time. I do want to finish it, though. --Chris

Just started The Road.

... my house - Luna (1) and Bobble (nearly 1) Favorite Book (so far): HP series, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Blue Sword, The Road, Blindness and a LOT of others! Favorite Movie (so far): Lord of the Rings, The Shawshank Redemption, Stardust, 50 First Dates, Two Weeks Notice, Notting Hill, ...

28. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Again, this book is not a classic dystopian. It is a post-apocalyptic tale - and a depressing one, at that. I can see why it won a Pulitzer. I was surprised to find the story as emotional as it was with the writing style - there is no emotional insight to the 2 ...

I just had this happy thought today and had to post it somewhere... I'm sooooo glad The Road by Cormac McCarthy wasn't on the updated list. I would have put money on it that it would be selected and it wasn't. I HATED that book.

... I don't read a lot of fantasy, but we have similar taste in terms of other novels. I've read Life of Pi, Saturday, and The Road too - and liked them all. But Gilead is much different than all of those. The story meanders, and as I said above, the book is really more about character ...

... things, am mostly reading historical and fantasy at the moment but also like things such as Life of Pi, Saturday and The Road if that gives you any inclination as to my reading preferences

... Dream Eaters by GW Dahlquist The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes My Dirty Little Book Of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen The Road by Cormac McCarthy Ascent by Jed Mercuio Hav by Jan Morris Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Surveillance by Jonath ...

... science fiction section free" card by merit of having an author known better for other things (e.g., A Handmaid's Tale, The Road). Still others could be seen as SF or not, depending on your point of view (e.g., Cloud Atlas, Being Invisible). And on the fringes of this category, ...

... - 3/5 - Historical Fiction (Ancient Egypt) 26. River God - 5/5 - Historical Fiction (Ancient Egypt) 27. The Road - 5/5 - Sci-Fi /dystopia (near future) 28. The Seventh Scroll - 3/5 - Historical Fiction (Ancient Egypt).....but also present day!! 29. Suzanne's D ...

... Last Place by Laura Lippman Ratcatcher by James McGee Breath by Tim Winton Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly Down River by John Hart

... christiguc and GeorgiaDawn! It's not a happy ending kind of story, but very impactful and thought-provoking. If you liked The Road, then you'll probably like this book. Let me know if any of you get to it!

...and I've finished The Road, and excellent it was indeed! next up for me (a slight change of mood): Deja Demon by Julie Kenner - I enjoyed the first two books in this series but book three felt a little flat - here's hoping book four is back on track...

... (the trailer screened before WALL-E and it looked like something my kids might enjoy) I'm still reading The Road and enjoying it very much. It is a book I could probably devour in a single sitting, but the style it is written in makes me want to read slowly and savour it (plus ...

Oh, I thought The Road was awesome, but I think I still need therapy for dealing with some of the issues. A very (VERY) powerful and upsetting novel. (They are adapting it for a movie. I will NOT be seeing this movie.) I too have No Country for Old Men in my TBR pile, but missed the movie. (D ...

kicking this month off with The Road by Cormac McCarthy which I'll be starting on tonight - it'll be the first of his books I've read, inspired by re-watching the excellent film adaptation of No Country For Old Men (which is also in my TBR crates) last Sunday. last month was unfortunately ...

... Dream Eaters by GW Dahlquist The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes My Dirty Little Book Of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen The Road by Cormac McCarthy Ascent by Jed Mercuio Hav by Jan Morris Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Surveillance by Jonath ...

The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson The Ice People, Maggie Gee The Road, Cormac McCarthy anything by Thomas Pynchon Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell Resistance, Owen Sheers

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2. The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery (nonfiction on global warming) 3. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 4. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson 5. The Secret River by Kate Grenville

... and gets people thinking and discussing. The writing style is not at all easy to follow, in my opinion much harder than The Road. Long paragraphs with little indication of proper speech don't work for me; I get bored trying to entangle them. Saramago makes some very insightful statements ...

... my own experiences of post-apocalyptic novels, of literature at large, and of previous McCarthy books. I concluded that The Road wasn't anything very special after all based on those factors. And the tightrope point goes flooey here because the function I performed was that of a critical ...

yareader2 - you made me wiki. I've been meaning to post something from Cormac McCarthy's The Road, but I didn't have a chance to type anything out. So, here is something. For those who don't know the context, this is a post-apocalyptic novel. I know this is long, but I couldn't figure out how ...

I'm with y'all on Cormac McCarthy. I loved The Road, just saw No Country for Old Men and am still chewing on what I think of his work in general. I'm going to read No Country soon and start poking into his other stuff, so I guess we should keep comparing notes.

... Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry The Lost Dog, Michelle de Kretser Breath, Tim Winton The best of the rest The Road, Cormac McCarthy Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood Unless, Carol Shields

beeg, In my short experience with McCarthy, I've gotten the same feeling. I've read one book (The Road) and watched No Country for Old Men, and I've definitely felt like there was no happy ending or that I even understood either one... That McCarthy is puzzling to me! You're from Louisiana, ...

... >60 sisaruus, I very much enjoyed The Terror Dream and found her theory intriguing (don't you think novels like The Road fit right into it?). >kidzdoc, can't wait! When you said it would be volumes, I was reminded immediately of The Raj Quartet. I would recommend either The Glas ...

I mooched The Road from a new moocher who responded by saying they not only did not own this book but hadn't even listed books yet. I asked the moocher to reject the mooch (still pending as we speak but we were all new once), but I don't understand how I was able to mooch a book that wasn't ...

The movie version of The Road is slated to be released in the US in November. It's got Viggo Mortensen and Guy Pearce in it, so I probably won't complain much. Of course, the book didn't really do it for me to begin with...

Exact match first would be wonderful. Every time I touchstone The Road, the default that comes up is On the Road. Annoying.

A Thousand Country Roads by Robert Waller The Road by Cormac McCarthy Off the Map: Western Travels on Roads Less Taken by Stephen Hume Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene Around the World With Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

... I started reading contemporary fiction. Without Coben, I would never have joined LT. :-D #6 karenmarie: I loved The Road, as well. It's not like anything I've every read. #7 RedBowlingBallRuth: I hated Forest Gump, the book! It was sooo depressing. I loved the movie ...

#6 - I completely agree re The Road. Finished Dear American Airlines. The best I can say for it is that it was 'okay.' Half through The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, which is considerably better. Had a terrible time deciding which novel would replace Dear American Airlines, but finally ...

... matter. I had previously read No Country for Old Men which I really loved and everyone here said wait till you read The Road, it was an amazing book, but I think I still liked Old Country better.

Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy - wow! What a read. I'm about 5 pages into The Fire by Katherine Neville. Plus I'll get to pick another 4-5 books out (for backup, you understand) to take to the beach.

... all who wish to weigh in on the merits (or otherwise), the beauties (or otherwise) and general importance (or otherwise) of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This thread will be LOADED with spoilers, so read on at your own risk. No one here should hold back from revealing and/or analyzing plot ...

#216 - perhaps it's time to start a discussion on The Road, to avoid any spoilers in these threads. Just a thought.

I finished The Road on break this morning and found it stunning - strong, terse, compelling. I wasn't looking forward to it particularly, but it was for bookclub and on my 888 list for Prize Winners (The Pulitzer in this case), and am very glad I read it. I will definitely search out some more ...

... in the middle and that the last section summarized too much. I saw the musical last night and thought that it was fun. The Road was one of the books that I received through the library this week - I am going to start it next. I am intrigued by all of the talk about it on this thread.

... and feel very impressed afterwards, which probably reflects more about me than about whether the books are any good. Maybe The Road is just another one of those books - same stuff, different details. Not sure, but at the moment I'm finding it very hard to put down and even harder to stop ...

So The Road is freaking me out. Last night I worked late and drove home on empty dark roads with nothing to keep me from thinking about the book and its implications.

30) The Road by Cormac McCarthy The language is really what makes this book complete. I enjoyed it despite there not being too much going on in the story itself.

Just started The Road by Cormac McCarthy for my September bookclub read. I'm also going to try to sneak in Breaking Dawn.

#103 Talbin The Road sounds like the 21st century version of the style of Virginia Woolf! Mostly description and interior musings rather than actual plot? I love Virgina Woolf--(I'm rereading To the Lighthouse right now). Should I try this?

Finished John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown last night and then started Cormac McCarthy's The Road this morning. If anyone is familiar with both books, it's a little bit of an eerie transition. To a God Unknown was my first John Steinbeck. I'm still processing it. It was formal and slow, ...

103 Talbin -- that's a really good take on The Road - I agree, it was the language and the relationship. I thought it was spectacular for a really depressing book!

That was quick. The Road it is.

>99 heatherlynn85: With The Road, you need to just let the language roll over you. Nothing "really happens" in most of the book - for me it was mostly about the relationship between the man and his son, and about the beautiful poetic language used to describe such a horrific landscape and life.

Sounds like The Road to me.

... interest you, this book is definitely worth reading – it would be hard not to be interested in it by the end. 45. The Road by Corman McCarthy - I love dystopian fiction - the grittiness, by definition, highlights aspects of human nature that don't often appear in other genres. So when I ...

... Watts * Carlucci, Richard Paul Russo * Viriconium, M. John Harrison * Scar, China Mieville * The Road, Cormac McCarthy * The End of Mr. Y, Scarlett Thomas * Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell * Tales of the Dying Earth, Jack Vance * Dahlgren, ...

... the narrator) and Oryx and Crake is as engrossing as The Handmaid's Tale. I think that this book is quite different than The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I'm glad that I have read all three of these books. What is troubling is the way disaster happens quickly- and we have seen contemporary ...

#118 & #120 I finished The Road just before the 1st of the year (Christmas present), & it is still haunting me, too.

... why studying contemporary literature seems to be left until college. Why not read Salman Rushdie, Khaled Hosseinni, Cormac McCarthy or Phillip Roth? I don't think you should eliminate classics altogether, but I think plenty of students would take more interest in what they're reading ...

61. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Grim, absorbing tale of a post-apocalyptic world where the bad guys eat people and the good guys are no where to be seen. In the middle of this world, the man and his son walk the road, going south in search of food, warmer weather and the good guys. Quick read ...

... it is never as good as the book, I thought the Coen brothers did a great job bringing it to the screen. I decided to read The Road afterward too, I liked it also, but liked No Country better. I have got All the Pretty Horses waiting in the wings.

#88 chc - I just finished The Road and found it very interesting.

... intersting read for lovers of the coast and/or of a good lobster salad roll. 15. Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir 16.The Road by Cormac McCarthy For book club...Boy. This was dark. And depressing. But with a glimmer of light and hope at the end. Mankind and love will overcome all ...

The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Here's my list folks:) Of Human Bondage by Wm. Somerset Maugham Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Blaze by Stephen King The Death ...

... Stirling, which was great. All of a sudden, all electricity in the world fails and guns also don't work anymore. Kind of The Road meets Alas Babylon. Excellent and believing story, very 'real' characters, great development. All in all a great read and I highly recommend it. #29 was The ...

The US can have some very large print runs. The Road's first paperback printing was 975,000 copies. It's now in its 23rd printing. Not all of them were 975,000 books printed. Volume discounts do drive the cost per unit down. That's one reason the US has such a large remainder market. Almost every ...

... might sound, lol). It's great to think about when I'm sweating it out in the Texas heat. I'm glad you read and liked The Road. It was interesting... when I read the book, I wasn't totally sure if I liked it or not (I definitely recommended it, but not sure if it was something I "enjoyed," ...

I finished The Road, then finished Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, and have just started Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.

"No. Come on." The Road by Cormac McCarthy "Would you die if you fell?"

... list of their top picks for new classics: 1. The Road, Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000) 3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987) 4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995) ...

I am somewhere in the eastern United States in a post-apocalyptic stupor with The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

... and spindled and the two of clubs was missing but still they played sometimes by firelight wrapped in their blankets." The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I admit it's not a feel-good happy-go-lucky kind of book, but I really liked The Road. And I didn't think the ending was quite as hopeless as others have said they thought it was. BTW, it was surprising to me just how much I liked it, since I have so far hated every Oprah book I've ever read (or ...

I liked The Road as well, although it is indeed creepy. I'm currently reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali's memoir, Infidel, which I've been wanting to read for some time. I saw her on TV, and listened to a radio interview, about the time the book was published. Her story is truly fascinating.

mckait and hemlokgang: I liked The Road. It was on my top five for the first quarter. It was very creepy. I agree that it's short; I read it in a couple days and a friend read it in 3 hours.

55 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner My Antonia by Willa Cather The Road by Cormac McCarthy Middlemarch by George Eliot Call of the Wild by Jack London

... Looks like you are halfway to your goal a little less than halfway through the year! Good going! Re #25, I heard that The Road was like that (no paragraphs, punctuation, etc.) and therefore was hard to read, but it was great as an audiobook. Do you think The Double would be likewise ...

I scored a trade paperback (Oprah's Book Club) edition of McCarthy's The Road today. Very good condition. Leave a msg on my profile page if you're interested and I'll reserve it for you on BookMooch.

May was a busy Month for me and not a bad book in the bunch but I'd have to say my top 3 are: The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Namesake Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri And honourable mention, just for the fun factor goes to Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

... be made into a movie starring roombas A Roomba With a View Books that couldn't be made into a movie starring roombas The Road

... that throws off my pace. Last one that did it to me was The House of the Spirits by Allende. Also in that category was The Road by McCarthy, Hotel du Lac by Brookner, and The Lions of al-Rassan by Kay. Still, I'd rather have the experience of reading such brilliant novels and having ...

... Tale I think.....power, politics, totalitarianism, etc. Last time I seemed to have a bit of a father and son theme with the Road Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance and The Heart Shaped Box.

#23. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - This was the fastest read for me in a while. I checked it out from the library yesterday morning and finished it at about 8:30 last night. I was sucked in from the first paragraph. This is about a man and his son traveling south. Something has ...

2006 Cormac McCarthy, The Road was awarded August 2007. The winner for 2007 will be awarded this August (2008)

22. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Depressing. Beautifully written, but very little happens, and it has perhaps the biggest Deus Ex Machina ending I've ever read. Disappointing.

... Weir...I'm so glad that she made the jump over to fiction! The Lady Elizabeth was equally as engrossing. Next up is The Road for book club.

... enjoy reading without all the quotation marks, had no problem understanding dialog. Have only read one other of his The Road, enjoyed it also. About Love in the Time of Cholera I believe you have a treat in store, I remember several late-nignt reading sessions because I just couldn't ...

McCarthy is my favourite too. For those who haven't read any, his last two, No Country For Old Men and The Road are perhaps the most accessible, before moving on through The Border Trilogy to the others? I recently read Plainsong by Kent Haruf, which was compared to McCarthy in several of ...

Two BookMooch arrivals: The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Road by Cormac McCarthy

... person but I will run to get Interpretation of Maladies. I'm still reading Middlemarch, I believe I will finish The Road today (also loving), and I just picked up The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell to start when The Road is done. I have had a couple of weeks of really good ...

For all the lovers of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, I was just on imdb looking up the kid who played Eric Bana's son in Romulus, my father and I discovered that he is the movie version of the book. To hear that this great book was being made into a movie made me very happy but I was made even ...

I am still reading Middlemarch, listening to The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri in my car and just started The Road. I also just picked up another one from the library Unaccustomed Earth which I need to start and finish quickly as it has an early due date back - it's in high demand. I also ...

... day, I then went to the library to drop off one book, and picked up 2 more. On audio, The Namesake, and in hardcover, The Road, I just read No Country for Old Men and loved it and I know many here have praised The Road so I am looking forward to reading it.

To Waterstones to get The Road, follow up to No Country for Old Men which I greatly enjoyed. '3 for 2' offer on that so "forced" to buy Fall of Kings, which I had been waiting for in paper-back, and Man of War, again a waited for paper-back. I also got The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke ...

#107 - Oh, I want to hear what you have to say about The Road when you are done. We talked about it a smidge in this thread: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=34174

the Road by Cormac McCarthy is the first McCarthy book I've ever read, and, I can honestly say I'm going to be reading more by him. The Road is little more than the tale of a nameless father and son wandering around a post-apocalyptic America trying to survive. This is not a happy story, nor ...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Gripping.

... H. Jones Posted a review in the library and you can check it out if interested. This was an ER book for me. 28. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Can't say enough about this book or Cormac McCarthy. His spare and beautiful writing is superb. #25 wunderkind. thanks for the ...

... for that tidbit of news! I had blue cheese dressing on my salad yesterday eveing, and then last night I dreamed I was on The Road with my kids in a post-apocalyptic world. Somehow we managed to walk all the way to Australia (don't ask) where things weren't quite so bad. There was a food ...

I'm reading the Road by Cormac McCarthy. Its the first McCarthy book I've read, and, as disturbing and dark as it is, I'm really enjoying it. I'm also reading Esoteric Psychology Volume 1 or rereading it rather, the first time I burnt out about 2/3 of the way through. the Hero With a Thousand F ...

Finished Thursbitch which was different but a quick read. I think I might take a break from 1001 and read The Road next.

... be as good as I hope, as book adapted movies never live up. I have not read any other McCarthy, I think next I'll read The Road as there is much praise all over LT. edited due to wrong touchstone

I haven't read The Road because Blood Meridian put me off McCarthy. Charlie Huston's novels Already Dead, No Dominion and Half the Blood of Brooklyn were very violent, even taking into account that it's vampire fiction.

... Lac by Anita Brookner The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman Local Girls by Alice Hoffman From PBS: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

This morning I finished reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and it is, without a doubt, the darkest book I have ever read. It was this month's Library Book Club read, and I'm willing to bet half of the members didn't finish it. (I'll let you know if I'm right next Wednesday night.) So, ...

... and cowardly as an elderly author. But I've also read Saturday and really love Ian McEwan style. I plan on reading The Road again, and I expect that I'll get something more out of it.

Not poetry, but I thought The Road by Cormac McCarthy was written in a beautiful, poetic manner.

Thanks for the tip...I'll try it here. The Road Sweet!

I am just finishing up Brasyl by Ian McDonald which I enjoyed quite a lot, and starting The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

I'd be in for a group read if it's anything but The Road. (Sorry, I've tried three times to get into it, but it's not working for me.) I'd vote for We or Oryx and Crake, both of which I haven't read. But I'd also be happy to reread The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Brave New World, or to read The Sl ...

... Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 7. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 8. Chocolat by Joanne Harris * 9. The Road by Cormac McCarthy * 10. Come to Me by Amy Bloom (short stories) 11. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve 12. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy * 13. Gardens of Wate ...

... Sea by Stephen Marche Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahir. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay Triangle by Katherine Weber The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret Non-fiction Th ...

In no particular order: A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell The Road by Cormac McCarthy On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey March by Geraldine Brooks

... I needed something lighter to read after reading two very emotional draining books lately (The Pillars of the Earth and The Road). Hornby's got a way of expressing himself that I find amusing, and he manages to, despite writing about a very serious topic; suicide, make me smile and even ...

... Eldest in that order." I've gotten through almost all the ones I planned to, am on Eldest right now, and read The Road as well. If I could get rid of the kids more often, I might be able to get through 100 books this year. The same two that have been gone this past week will ...

All the Pretty Horses was very good. If you could handle The Road that one shouldn't disturb you too much.

Does your club read only fiction? If so, I would also recommend Half of a Yellow Sun, The Road, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Life of Pi. In addition, I would suggest: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar Mister Pip by Lloyd J ...

... The Giver and it's definately one of my favorites. My shortlist reccomendations for this quarter would be Middlesex, The Road, and The Giver. p'shah on the rest of 'em... Maybe include The Store. Finished Larryisms and had to trudge the last half. It would have been better as ...

16) The Road by Cormac McCarthy It took a while to get used to the style of writing; a weird mixture really short and really long sentences with no in between, but when I did I really started to warm up to the story. The story shows in a very brutal way the means of wich human beings will ...

... LINES. THANKS.*** 20. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. 7 stars. Just today, I read someone's review of The Road. They said something along the lines that they hated it because it was one of the most depressing books they'd ever read and it left them with no hope. Well, The ...

Finished The Road. I liked it, but it was sad and depressing. The ending surprised me. I was expecting both of them to die, and I liked the way he ended it. It seemed a bit long, though, and I kept saying, "get on with it!" for the last 50 pages or so. I am working on my ER book, Larryism ...

>1 As I understand it, filming for The Road has begun already. Good news for all! http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08016/849427-42.stm Viggo Mortensen is playing the lead. I'll say that The Onion's AV Club did an article a bit back on the 20 books that needed to be made into movies right ...

7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy A haunting account of a father and son's post apocalyptic journey through an ashen and repugnant landscape in the hope of finding something better. I loved this book.

#66 RedBowlingBallRuth I'm with ya on The Road. It's kind of dull in spots, depressing in others, nerve-wracking in still others, and I can't figure out what all the fuss is yet... But I kinda like it... especially after Atonement.

... for more enjoyment than reading Atonement. blech. The only thing about the book I liked was I loved Briony. Now on to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Hoping for better from the dystopic genre. Hoping to get the atonement taste out of my mouth. finished 9 still haven't finished Mac ...

Finished The Road (6). Frightening, depressing, powerful. Excited to read more McCarthy, Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men at the top of the list. Apparently, there's a movie adaptation of The Road in the works. I'm guessing it will be a decent film, but will lack the emotional ...

#13 whymaggiemay The Road is on my TBR pile... and with your recco it's going to be bumped up a few spots ;-) I just mooched Wild Swans on BM yesterday... it's cool you liked it, can't wait to get it now. #11 teelgee I'm dying to get my hands on The Invention of Hugo Cabret ...

I've had a good quarter in both fiction and nonfiction. Fiction: The Road by McCarthy The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Hamid Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie Lolita by Nabakov In the Country of Men by Matar Nonfiction: Wild Swans by Chung Dreams From My Father by O ...

... of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Chocolat by Joanne Harris The Road by Cormac McCarthy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Of course, if I finish War and Peace by the 31st, I'll have to amend this. Nonfiction - I didn't ...

I just finished The Road. What an amazing book!

27. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. All I can say is "wow"! I was so affected by this book-the spare writing, the relationship between the boy and the father,and the view of humanity. This book is so haunting and for me, a very emotional read.

16. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Great book set in a post apocalyptic America. I think that like many forms of media today we have become steeped in a form of communication that is full of artifice and verbosity, these are absent in this book. The language is so simple and abrupt, it may take a ...

I am currently reading The Road, not expecting to like it because I didn't like All the Pretty Horses. But I am liking it very much -- perhaps I will try this one, too ...

... than The Emporer's Children, but I still thought that the event resonated more in Emporer's than Third Brother. Starting The Road (6).

Angela's Ashes and Teacher Man were powerful and inspiring, as is The Road... #3 has it right; I think good literature can inspire us in that we want to then lift ourselves up to be at the same level of quality as the feeling the book gave us -- read a good book = we may cook dinner a ...

Have to agree with you Teacherdad . . . I have recommended and / or bought a copy of The Road for friends and family.

The paperback is already available in the UK. That's the edition I bought. (I also bought The Road by Cormac McCarthy at the same time.)

I've been thumping people with The Road for a year now, especially since the No Country for Old Men movie came out, and for anyone interested in YA/Juv it's Lois Lowry's The Giver or Gossamer or Number the Stars...

... Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Road by Cormac McCarthy None are too heavy on the science but take the reader out of the ordinary world.

... list for the Book Club! And just in case I left a false impression, I should mention that The Glass Castle and The Road are very different from Water for Elephants. I just finished The Book Thief, another 5* book for me (and I'm pretty stingy with 5*s -- last year of ...

Finished The Road 03/01/08. Started Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, it's a long one.

... got it from me as a Christmas present). I also would give 5 stars to two other books on your list: The Glass Castle and The Road.

I started Cormac Mcarthy's The Road on my eReader this morning after I finished my book this morning. I'm on page 115 of 359.

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... Cormac McCarthy's book, don't you? I have it, but haven't gotten to it yet. I think this is the link, maybe, possibly: The Road I love McCarthy, though his books are never 'happy.'

#22 I think the beard is for The Road, but couldn't swear to it. jewels if you get a chance to read The Road do, it's a beautiful heart breaking book. I was thrilled when I heard Viggo was chosen for it. I hope the boy is good, to parapharse Viggo, the movie rides on the boy's shoulders.

The Road. I was inconsolable for days. The man sitting next to me on the airplane hated me by the end of the flight.

I recently finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy and I was depressed for days afterward.

... Having come fresh from a pop culture class, I'm inclined to agree with you (and yes, I suggested in a paper that McCarthy's The Road was a neo-western). In the mid-19th century, New England was awash in literary and philosophical culture with Thoreau, Hawthorne, Emerson, Fuller, Bronson Alcott... ...

Yesterday I bought Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, American Gods and Neverwhere, both by Neil Gaiman.

... it. I found it to be a bit different, but a fun read. #76, Blood Meridian was my favorite McCarthy until I read The Road last week. I love McCarthy's work. I started A Complicated Kindness yesterday. I had a good laugh while reading it last night. The character's voice ...

... some longer books (Dostoyevsky) this year. 1. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 320 pages- I read The Road last year and loved it. This was my second foray into McCarthy, and I loved it as well. While a great story, it also makes poignant points about ageing and keeping ...

I reading No Country for Old Men. I really really enjoy (if that's the right word) The Road and was hoping to read this one before seeing the movie.

Ooohh, hard to pick just one. I'll have to choose Chocolat by Joanne Harris. Something completely different, The Road by Cormac McCarthy would be a very close second.

For me: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively Chocolat by Joanne Harris The Road by Cormac McCarthy

In non-fiction, I'm half finished with Eat, Pray, Love and three chapters into A Pound of Paper. Started The Road yesterday. I'm enjoying all very much.

... before--post-apocalyptic America, baffled by broken machines and bad bad bandits, on an endless journey across country, on The Road, all down-homey folky ma-and-pa wisdom and poignancy--and don't feel like he did anything new with it.

I've left the post-apocalyptic world of The Road and have landed in New Hampshire with Light on Snow (Anita Shreve).

The Road? This reminds me of the "first line" game in the What are you reading Now group ...

Oooh, I felt the same way after finishing The Road! I didn't feel at all like reading anything for a day or two. Then judylou suggested I read something entirely different, and I think I chose a romance or something else light, and that did the trick. The story stayed with me, though, a long ...

>159 That's exactly how I felt after I finished The Road. I plant to re-read it soon.

I finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy last night, which was compelling and disturbing and beautifully written. I can't say I enjoyed it, but I loved the experience of it. I think I need to take a day off of reading to let it sink in.

Add me to the "loved The Road" camp! Glad you enjoyed it, teelgee.

I loved The Road too - one of my favorite books last year. I just read that they're making it into a movie. Not sure how that will work....

Wow -- Chocolat to The Road -- you must be suffering whiplash! I really must read The Road. Onto the wishlist.

... src="http://www.librarything.com/i/covers/med/4296676-m.jpg"> 9. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Post-apocalyptic tale of a father and son just trying to survive as they travel south to find .... well, they don't really know what. ...

I finished Chocolat by Joanne Harris last night, a feast of a book! and then started The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which looks more like a famine. Glad to hear raves about The Blind Assassin as it's fairly high on Mount TBR.

"...the stature of a Paul Auster or Cormac McCarthy." The Road is science fiction.

Heat The Road No Country for Old Men

... regardless of context. The winner with 17 mentions is A Thousand Splendid Suns. The remaining top ten are: The Road The Thirteenth Tale TIED with 13 mentions Half of a Yellow Sun with 11 mentions The Book Thief Water for Elephants TIED with 10 mentions Harry P ...

Books I own category 1. A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini 2. The road by Cormac McCarthy 3. Smashed: growing up a drunk girl by Koren Zailckas 4. Tamar by Mal Peet 5. Me talk pretty one day ...

In no particular order: The Road by Cormac McCarthy Heat by Bill Buford Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Not in order The Time Traveler's wife Bel Canto Possession The Road Truth & Beauty

26. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Very powerful book, I'm not sure its possible to call it enjoyable but I found it insistent I stayed with it and cared. (Edit - I did find it enjoyable - a book I'm sure I will think a lot about. Whether it be about its vision of disaster - or the fathers ...

... rdrich The Jane Austen Book Club -- Karen Jay Fowler Case Histories -- Kate Atkinson AND a friend sent me The Road -- Cormac McCarthy Such abundance!!!

... cco American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde The Road by Cormac McCarthy ..... I read a lot of really good books in 2007.

... I just finished reading Blood Meridian and the punctuation is nonexistent in that as well. Blood Meridian makes The Road seem like a trip to Disney Land. I thought the lack of punctuation gave his work more of a punch to the gut. Somehow it makes the words more 'matter of fact' ...

... Literacy 10 the Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity 11 the Looking Glass Wars 12 Seeing Redd 13 The Road 14 Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir 15 Quantico 16 God at 2000 17 Hearts of Horses 18 Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordin ...

... couple of weeks ago, thinking that it was unlikely that I'd read another favorite by the end of the year... but I was given The Road by Cormac McCarthy for Christmas, so I have to revise my list: 1. Water for Elephants 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns 3. The Road 4. His Dark Mater ...

... five books, but after much deliberation, here is my top five list, in order: 1) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2) The Road by Cormac McCarthy 3) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 4) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 5) The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setter ...

64. The Road by Cormac McCarthy An amazing book! One of my favorites of the year...

December 2007 65. Slash - Slash 66. The road - Cormac McCarthy (book club)

I liked On Chesil Beach as well, but was confused at first, because I had it mixed up with The Road - so I was expecting a post-apocalyptic novel and here's this introspective quiet little book about expectations and gender differences. Heh heh. It didn't take me too long to figure out my error. ...

... Ngozi Adichie (won the Orange Prize, 2007) The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly (won the Orange Prize for 1st novel, 2007) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (won the Pulitzer Prize, 2007) Twilight by Stephanie Meyers Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (many awards, including a Commonwealth Prize) Mid ...

... Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly The Road by Cormac McCarthy Twilight by Stephanie Meyers Book Thief, by Markus Zusak Middlemarch, George Eliot Of course, the month isn't over yet...

Interesting. I enjoyed The Road but not like some readers who raved about it. I thought the novel somewhat contrived, oversimplified in order to tell his moral tale. I also thought it was an emotionally manipulative as any Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. Out Stealing Horses is a far better ...

#133 Detested The Sea Loved The Road

... the story just seemed so torturous. Took me about a week to read, and it's a short book (a week is a long time for me). The Road by Cormac McCarthy - same problem as above, really. I do like "sparse" prose, and it practically dripped atmosphere, but I just couldn't like it. I don't ...

#59 - SqueakyChu - I have to confess that I got the idea to read The Muse Asylum from your top 5 list of 2007! You had The Road and The Book Thief, which are two of my favorite reads of 2007, so I checked out your other favorites - and ended up with The Muse Asylum from the library today. I ...

The Road Cormac McCarthy Sea Glass Anita Shreve The knitting Circle Ann Hood Dream Catcher Margaret Salinger The Suicide of ReasonLee Harris. Maybe there will be more, still 3 weeks to go.

Lucky A memoir The Road We Need to Talk About Kevin Come Back: A mother's and daughter's journey through hell and back Any one of the dozens of true crime/mass murderer profiles I've read

If you haven't read The Road, I'd give it a try. It was outstanding.

... There's an appeal there that is strictly generic in terms of what it's trying to achieve. As opposed to a book like The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, which works as literary fiction, PA fiction and even on a certain level as Sci-Fi. I also think there's an attempt at being a "bestsel ...

... Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 2. Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics) by Hesiod 3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 4. Royalty's Strangest Characters: Extraordinary but True Tales from 2,000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers (Strange by Geoff Tib ...

48. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Wow, I'm not even sure where to begin for this one. This is possibly one of the most bleak yet amazing books I have ever had the pleasure to read. The story takes place in an unnamed post-apocalyptic future where pretty much 99.9% of the people in the world ...

... gway Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Civil Wars by Julius Caesar Fiction Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Road by Cormac McCarthy Find Me by Carol O'Connell The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay Judas Child by Carol O'Connell Honorable Mentions in Fiction (wh ...

... thought I'd join in the conversation. :-) There are still 4 weeks left in 2007. The funny thing is that my husband read The Road and hated it so much that he refused to finish it. Different strokes, I guess. After that he read Peony in Love by Lisa See and loved it more than he ...

Funny how different we all are! I thought The Road was wonderful ~ it's one of my top 5 of 2007. Then again, I listened to it on audiobook, so maybe that was cheating, considering the punctuation issue. I do plan to read it in book form at some point and will let you know if I change my mind ...

#45 - Squeaky I'm not doing my list yet, but when I do The Road is sure to be on it! That was one fantastic novel.

Best of the year - 2007 1. The Road - Cormac McCarthy 2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See 3. The Muse Asylum - David Czuchlewski 4. Troll: A Love Story - Joann Sinisalo 5. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

I thought of another to add to my clunkers list: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It came highly recommended by a co-worker and I know a lot of people here rave about it, but I found it hugely depressing, both in its punctuation (or lack thereof!) and themes. Thoroughly unenjoyable.

two jump out at me as head and shoulders (spine and pages?) above the rest: The Road by McCarthy and The Giver by Lowry... I'll have to get back with the next 3...

... as I somewhat expected (that honor goes to 'Salem's Lot). (7/10 -- 'n' I go easier on him and similar authors... >_>) The Road -- Also meant to read in '06 when it came out, but kept pushing it back. Excellent novel; deserves the praise it's since gotten. (9/10) Gravity's Rainbow -- I ...

... it was very very depressing not to mention boring. This just goes to show how people's opinions differ. I *loved* The Road. I consider that book my best read of 2007 so far. I recommended it to my husband who absolutely hated it and refused to finish it, also considering it too ...

My clunkers this year were: The Road --I thought it was very very depressing not to mention boring. Eat, Pray, Love (agree w/ Kirstenr) was very very boring in spots, especially after she left Italy and she was so whiny and self centered I couldn't stand it. Tipperary as with others listed ...

I doubt many would call No Country... one of McCormac's "lesser" works... but then again they all pale in comparison to The Road, an amazingly gripping and powerful story -- please, give it a try. My only qualms w/ No Country was the endless violence, is the movie also mucho blood and gore?

... and think I wouldn't have enjoyed it near as much without the wonderful, salty voice of the narrator. I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy and am not sure I could have stayed with the bleakness of the story without the audio supplement.

Amanda, I agree with your assessment of prize-worthiness, at least for those I've read. Adding to your list, I suppose The Road is prize-worthy, having won the Pulitzer & all that. And I'd put Water for Elephants on the NOT prize-worthy list. I enjoyed it, but there are better books out ...

... : Half of a Yellow Sun One Good Turn The Inheritance of Loss The Keep What is the What A Spot of Bother The Road Special Topics in Calamity Physics While I liked most of these, I was disappointed in One Good Turn (which I had high hopes for after Case Histories), ...

I was surprised to find how many of the books I've already read: Half of a Yellow Sun, The Inheritance of Loss, The Road, Alentejo Blue, One Good Turn, Water for Elephants, Black Swan Green, The Tenderness of Wolves, and The Thirteenth Tale. I'd say Half of a Yellow Sun was my ...

... on my wishlist. I have read, in order of enjoyment (most to least) Half of a Yellow Sun, The Inheritance of Loss, and The Road. It is an interesting list to mine--and I am off to increase my poor sagging wishlist!

... to America, and Wizard of the Crow already in my TBR pile and I have read Half of a Yellow Sun, Zoli, Mister Pip, The Road, and The Inheritance of Loss. Has anyone read any of these? btw, the list by nominating library is avaland in The Prizes : IMPAC/Dublin Prize (Nov 25, 2007, 8:08pm)

... Netherlands likes The Silent Sin by Ania Sicking *and it's no surprise that the USA likes the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road. Mentioned by multiple countries include Everyman by Philip Roth, Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (several African countries, Russia and Ireland ...

Cormac McCarthy's The Road was more disturbing than anything I have ever read. Not so much for what happens in the story (Stephen King & other horror authors have written much scarier stuff) but the whol premise of The Road, the underlying message, is that what happens in the novel COULD HAPPEN ...

... is the story of an extinction from a species - a bird, a fish, a lion ect. Before I started he 6th Extinction I finished The Road which I read in a day - Tuesday. I try to alternate fiction w/non-fiction but I'm thinking maybe following The Road with a book on extinctions wasn't such a great ...

... of the handmaid's tale! I read it in high school and again a couple of months ago and it still blew me away! I have the road TBR, I was really looking forward to it, but after reading the comments, I'm a bit less enthusiastic... No punctuation, sounds irritating... ^^

61. The Road by Cormas McCarthy I'm really impressed by this book. It's been a long time since one has disturbed me so much that I had to buckle down and read it cover to cover. I can't imagine what havoc this wrecked on Oprah's fan base.

... The Power of Art by Simon Schama, (a b-day present since I LOVED the series), and on suggestion of a housemate, The Road by Cormac McCarthy (yay squalor). .

... the U.S. Constitution. I'm also reading Colonists for Sale: The Story of Indentured Servants in America and rereading The Road so I can analyze the deeply rooted American beliefs and values it challenges and reinforces (let's not forget the iconic shopping cart!). It's oozing with them (as ...

... way back to Nigeria with Arrow of God by Achebe. I will also be in a future post-apocalyptic mid-America once again with The Road (reread for an analytical paper) and will also be in colonial America with Colonists for Sale: the story of Indentured Servants in America (nonfiction).

>47 John Hillcoat is also directing an adaptation of The Road. If you are familiar with Hillcoat's previous film "The Proposition" you'd see why the paring of him and McCarthy's work is perfect. If this is successful I hope he undertakes an adaptation of Blood Meridian. The books are always ...

... lewis "brave new world" by aldous huxley "1984" by george orwell and i have to second...third...or whatever "the road" by cormac mccarthy it was mind and life altering...

... profile. 8. In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster In a lot of ways this book is similar to the much-lauded The Road but I think it employs those themes in a much more literary and enjoyable manner. Highly recommended as is all of Auster's work I've read so far. 9. The Paris R ...

Another vote, deargreenplace, for The Road. How about World War Z by Max Brooks?

... to women. It also includes a good glossary on terms that overlap somewhat -- chador, hijab, burka. My next read was The Road by Cormac McCarthy which was quite sobering. It served to remind me of the importance of tolerance and respect. It was quite a troubling read, although ...

I just ordered The Road but it's in backorder... Oh well, still got a tantalising stack of books waiting for me, I have the time ^^

I SHOULD be reading for school, but I couldn't resist and am also reading The Road right now. After that it's back to archival science and computer science...

I found my errant copy of The Road so I've set aside Bangkok 8 which will wait until I finish The Road and Luminous Cities, my early review book.

There's nothing we could have done. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

... finished Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks. Excellent read that furthered my knowledge of Islam. I misplaced The Road was to be my next read so for now I'm reading Bangkok 8 by John Burdett. It was in the trunk of the car--where I thought I'd find The Road.

I've just finished The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw. Good story, thought-provoking ending. Next up is The Road by Cormac McCarthy for book group. I'm looking forward to it based on all the comments here.

RE# 30 Was this the first McCarthy you read? He does take some getting used to. I haven't yet read The Road, because I am not a fan of apocalyptic fiction. But some of his other work impressed me a great deal. All the Pretty Horses and The Stonemason particularly.

... a place? Like I said, I come to Roethke that way. Rilke. Richard Ford's stories. Stone's "Helping." McCarthy's The Road.

30) The Road by Cormac McCarthy - I'm generally a fan of apocalyptic books because I find the theme interesting and usually worthy of good writing. Despite the fact that this book has received great praise, I must say I did not particularly enjoy it. I found the descriptions of the gritty ...

... -- Grapes is important and a classic, and Cannery Row is a favorite i've read several times.... I highly recommend The Road by McCarthy....

... more difficult a book is to read, does not mean it is serious, although often this is the case. An example of that is The Road I found it so readable, I thought there must be something wrong with it or with me. Obviously, a post-apocolyptic world is serious reading. I loved your ...

#22 - I wonder if you will like The Road. I was actually disappointed after all the hype. I am trying to read all the Pulitzers and there are certainly better ones, I thought. I grew up in St. Albans, near Charleston, but have been globe trotting and have ended up in Northern Minnesota on a ...

... released. I've spent a lot of time, and more than a little money in The Paradox book store. Just picked up a paperback copy The Road for a buck.

... pick apart a Michael Crichton novel and discuss which beliefs are evident in it, but one can also do the same in McCarthy's The Road.

32 The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron 33 The RoadCormac McCarthy 34 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moshin Hamid

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Lost Illusions by Honor de Balzac Right now I'm on Suite Francaise which I already know will wind up near the top of my 2007 ...

... sure I've missed some): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini The Road, Cormac McCarthy Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See The Lizard Cage, Karen Connelly The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield Half of a Yellow Sun, C ...

So the lack of punctuation is consistant for McCarthy? I thought maybe in The Road, the apocalypse burned all the quotation marks.

... by David Sedaris 5.) The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson and The Road by Cormac McCarthy were close to making the list.

This has been a great reading month, so it's hard to limit it to a single favorite, but I'll go with The Road.

This month I bought The road The wind up bird chronicles The body artist White noise July's people Max and the cats

... by Markus Zusak 2. The Devil in the White City (non-fiction) by Erik Larson 3. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (IF I did read that early this quarter...not sure it squeaks in there.)

... here are the creme de la creme: 1. Storm Front by Jim Butcher 2. Killing Critics by Carol O'Connell 3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 4. Find Me by Carol O'Connell 5. Moveable Feast by Hemingway Honorable mentions go to: The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy ...

Here are my top five for this quarter: 1. The Road – Cormac McCarthy 2. The Muse Asylum – David Czuchlewski 3. Troll: A Love Story – Johanna Sinisalo 4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See 5. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly hollows The Road Woman in White Endurance Time Traveler's Wife Overall, it's been a rewarding summer. I'm also reading Mayflower, Team ofRivals, We Need to Talk About Kevin and listening to Constant Princess Most all of the books I've read this ...

The Road, oh, I was disappointed. It was OK for me, but not the great book I pictured. Much better was The last town on earth which has to do with the Spanish Influenza epidemic. clear light of day written by a Methodist minister about a minister. Wrong touchstone, should be by Penelope Wi ...

I read The Road by McCarthy then Night by Wiesel. Before I killed myself in despair, I started Secrets of a Summer Night by Kleypas. I think I'll need to read light and fluffy for rest of the year after reading those back to back.

While I realize I'm in the minority, The Road felt a bit contrived to me.

... the Choctaw Road by Tim Tingle 12. Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison 13. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 14. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 15. Widdershins by Charles de Lint I took a course from Tim Tingle and love his writing and storytelling. Of these five my favorite was Th ...

... they really weren't the kind of thing I usually enjoy, and ended up absolutely loving! These include: The Book Thief The Road Twilight Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Pride and Prejudice (yes, I confess, I hadn't read it until just this year) The Wallflower series by Lisa Kley ...

Something that hasn't been mentioned on this thread: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. The Road is also on my TBR pile and I wouldn't mind reading and discussing The Giver again.

... It's a young adult read about beauty and perfection, but I enjoyed it. I also heartily recommend The Giver. I've got The Road, Fahrenheit 451, and The Handmaid's Tale all on my to be read list, so it sounds like I've got a few good reads in front of me!

Costco seems a strange place to be buying books, but there it is. Today I bought The Road and The Rug Merchant, both on recommendation by LTers.

The Road, after being so hyped and winning the Pulitzer was quite a disappointment to me. That was my last August book. I thought my first September book, The Last Town on Earth was much better. So now I must go eat chocolate and start Gilead. I am working on the Pulitzer prizes as I can ...

The Road OK, everyone raved about it, so I ordered it off Amazon. I did read it in one day, and it was...OK. I just didn't find it to be the great book everyone else seems to think it is, and I couldn't believe it was the Pulitzer winner. OK, you may all beat me with a stick for being a ...

The Road! I can't say enough about how brilliant it is. I wanted to reread it as soon as I finished it and had a hard time settling on what to read next. Second favorite was Killing Critics, a Mallory mystery by Carol O'Connell.

... . . . But I definitely do not see Trond as Everyman, whereas (although I never would have considered comparing this with The Road until avaland brought it up) I certainly saw the father in that book as Everyman, or at least as Every Good Man.

#5 OK, I'll try, but it's hard to ignore The Road. ;D Best novel I've read so far this year!

#12 I'm with you, judylou ~ my favorite for August and for the entire year so far is The Road. Brilliant! #17 I also loved Never Let Me Go when I read it a couple of years ago but like you felt that one Ishiguro was enough for awhile. This year I read When We Were Orphans and again, ...

... are some exceptions to that and there are "literary" authors who write works of genre fiction - The Handmaid's Tale, The Road, The Plot Against America, etc. - that are well-received simply because of the author's standing. I think defining "literary fiction" is based more on what ...

PRETEND I DIDN'T POST THIS...but read these books anyway... 1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2. The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski 3. Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo 4. Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan 5. You Can't Catch Death by Ianthe ...

... Marion Zimmer Bradley's death. I'm not really sure whether it's going to be any good, but I live in hope. After finishing The Road three days ago, I've had a hard time finding anything I want to read ~ it was so good, I just want to start reading it all over again! :)

The Road was the real standout for August.

I just left India (finished reading Heat and Dust), and am now in post-apocalyptic America reading The Road. Desolate and scary.

... due to a genetic disease. I read this one after reading judylou's advice to read something completely different from The Road. I figured this would qualify, and it did! I'm now reading the third Dresden Files novel and the latest Darkover novel. ETA: Couldn't get into the Darkover ...

#135 - lindsacl - I am very curious to read your review of The Road. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. =)

Finished Heat and Dust last night and am now starting The Road. I have been looking forward to this one, having heard so much about it here.

I admit, through most of the book, I thought this a better father-son story than The Road (which I felt a bit contrived). I know, different kind of stories, but all the same, it's what crossed my mind.

I've finished The Road and it was brilliant! The reader was fantastic. It is the best thing I've read this year and probably the best of the year, although Team of Rivals was also excellent. Well, one is a novel and one is non-fiction, so each can be best in their respective groups, I guess. ...

... ! 4. Blink: the power of thinking without thinking 5. Harry Potter 6 6. Harry Potter 7 7. Half of a Yellow Sun 8. The Road--yuck! at least it was a fast read. I've just started The Corrections and am loving it! I've also been reading A Confederacy of Dunces off and on. I just ...

I have to agree about The Road. I've been advising everyone I meet to read it. I think a reread in a couple of months is called for too. Such simple prose but such a complex story.

73. The Road by Cormac McCarthy(http://www.librarything.com/author/mccarthycormac) 5 stars. Audiobook. One of the best books I've read this year. Maybe the best. Amazing. I need to read it again.

... arkand 45. The Dangerous book for Boys. 46. The Kitchen boy 47. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. 48. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Ick, I was not a fan of this one like the rest of the reading world. It was kinda dull, and I didn't think it was all that well written. 4 ...

... Then, probably Lean Mean Thirteen, which is due back to the library soon. Also still listening to the audiobook of The Road, which is brilliant (in a really depressing way). I am absolutely loving it! ;D

... by randomarbitrary (msg 76). Of course, I always thought those and the Oprah books were one and the same. Did she endorse The Road yet? If there's one SF book I won't touch with a ten foot pole it's that one! It sounds absolutely miserable.

--> I found The Road by far the best book I've read by Cormac McCarthy. I also read All the Pretty Horses and No Country for Old Men.

In the middle of The Road So far so good. Has anyone read his other works?

... terrorist attack and turns into a resistance fighter bent on revenge. Pretty good reading! Also still listening to The Road and surprisingly am enjoying it.

... Rowling 27. More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin 28. Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin 29. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ...

... Peril. In my purse on the chair next to the printer cabinet is my iPod which contains the following audiobooks: The Road, Jane Eyre, Jonathan Strange, Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception, Find Me, Cod by Kurlansky, Dark Guardian by Feehan, and Dark Assassin by Perry.

... the last person left on the planet who intends to read it who hasn't already finished it), and am also listening to The Road by McCarthy.

... I heard about the series on LT. It hooked me, and I'm going to start the 4th in the series now, right after I finish The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which I started last night. (In the past week, I've read (either on audio or in book form) a book about a wizard detective named Harry Dres ...

... Sagan On the beach by Nevil Shute Spin by Robert Charles Wilson The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau The Road by Cormac McCarthy to my wishlist and will start reading them all as soon as I am humanly able. I have discovered a love of this genre that astounds me.

since i was out of town and on flights i had lots of time to read, i read The Road and am now halfway through the first part of the border trilogy All The Pretty Horses. Mccarthy is one of the few writers who after i read only one thing by him (no country for old men) i felt that i had to read ...

... the next one, but not to be (for me). I found Labyrinth way too wordy and found myself skimming pages. However. loved The Road and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

... saves first girl who then dies for him! A bit of a fable - war and religion. Not bad but I think reading it straight after The Road was not to its advantage.

... by Barbara Kingsolver 22. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill 23. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler 24. The Road by Cormac McCarthy I'm not including non-fiction and probably not youth fiction.

Just finished The Road today, excellent read.

I just crossed the US with The Road, am currently in fictional "The City" with Australia's Rodney Hall in the Last Love Story, and will move on to New Zealand with The Bone People.

63. The Road by Cormac McCarthy What can I say that hasn't already been said on LT? This was one of the most moving books I've ever read. How can such a simple story at the same time be so complex? Read it in one afternoon. Highly recommended!

... I am listed on there as lisakay123. So far I have read The Reader,which I didn't really like. Right now I am reading The Road.

... by Jeannette Walls - I laughed myself off my Lazy-Boy with this one. And I'm still working on Cormac McCarthy's The Road. I still feel like I'm waiting for Godot with this book though. Oh to read to read to read every day!

This is the first book I will receive from early reviewers. Can't wait, but until it arrives I am reading The Road and have just finished reading Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter the whole series and I'm wishing for a copy of The Harlequin.

I'm half way through Middlesex and have The Road waiting patiently. After that I'll hopefully start Pretties and Uglies. I think that'll do me for the week!

... Fowl The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer Find Me by Carol O'Connell Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I finished The Quiet American which was very interesting. I'll probably start a Cormac Mccarthy book next, either The Road or All the Pretty Horses

--> 14 Ooooh! I LOVED The Road. Start with that one, judylou!

I finally received a phone call from the library to say my requests for The road and Middlesex were finally in! So that's my weekend reading.

... ) I see from your profile that you like Cormac McCarthy. I just finished his book (Book #30 of the challenge) called The Road. Have you read it yet? I thought it my best read so far this year. I'm presently working on books #31 and #32.

48. The Road by Cormac McCarthy http://back-to-books.blogspot.com/2007/07/road.html

Reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It's a little like Waiting for Godot. I don't know whether or not I like it. I have to finish it to tell.

I have to echo SqueakyChu's sentiment about The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This is also my favorite book for July - and probably one of the most important books I'll ever read.

It's The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Run, don't walk, to the nearest book store to buy this one. This is a very quick but tender and haunting read about a father and son trying to survive in a burned-out country. The book is fabulous!

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Got it at Costco. A store that I have to drive to since I also spend $100 plus whenever I'm there - lol.

... reflects the pain of being forced to leave home and being separated from other family members. Rating -- 3 stars 30. The Road – Cormac McCarthy This Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a must read for everyone. It is a quick and easy read but simply haunting. The story is of ...

... or They Shoot Horses Dont They? by Horace Mccoy. probably the latter since its short and afterwards i'll read The Road on the plane to the midwest

Not only for June, it's my best book of the year. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It blew me away!

Here's an update: The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby The Road by Cormac Mccarthy The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer Angels & Demons by Dan Brown Misfortune by Wesley Stace Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote Harry Potter and ...

... started nicely and looks like it will be a good read. After that I'm hoping to get a phone call to tell me Middlesex or The Road are ready to pick up from the library.

... Jim Crace. If his previous work is anything to go by, this should be a good book. Also not bought yet but will be is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Prophetandmistress - I can well imagine you had to read through a lot of dross for your thesis! But the main premise sounds pretty interesting. ...

I've jumped from the ashen world of The Road - fabulous book! - by Cormac McCarthy to the brightly colored world of Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall. This is her debut novel. I just started it but am enjoying her keen insight into people. One passage of Morrall's book ...

I was seriously considering a comparison between The Road and The Pesthouse but you have beaten me to it with the excellent reviews above. I have yet to read The Road so it is difficult to compare directly, but The Pesthouse is also a post-apocalyptic world described by an English author ...

43) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (review)

6 The Road by Cormac McCarthy. A post-apocolyptic story of a man and his son trying to survive the deadly atmosphere, hunger and other people. Very moving, and really not at all what I was expecting from this author.

Had to buy Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. Also picked up The Road by Cormac McCarthy

... .. ******************* I would like see this page updated. I've never seen it change in the last two months. For instance, The Road has really climbed on that list. Besides an update maybe a archive also? Say a list by quarter so someone interested could hit a link for Q3 06 to see the list for ...

... As a kid, my very favorite animal story was Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune. Meanwhile, I'm in the throes of The Road by Cormac McCarthyand find that book fascinating. I gave up on Chronicles, Volume 1 by Bob Dylan. Too much name-dropping and not much else was ...

--> 176 It *is* very hard to put down The Road. Today I took it to my dentist's office and was sad I couldn't read it while the hygienist was working on my teeth! :-) It's that engrossing (the book, not my dentition)! Isn't the writing beautiful? I know that the author does not ...

>173 and >175: SqueakyChu: First time I've read any of McCarthy's books. I couldn't put The Road down. Wonderlake: re Wild Swans - Don't worry about the names etc.. It's worth persevering for the 'meat' of it.

I'm excited to finally be reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's very unlike the book of his I read previously. The story is mesmerizing. The language is beautiful. It starts with a father and son walking through a burned-up country....

I'm not reading it now, but I've read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving four or five times. I've read The Road by McCarthy twice. And I'm sure I'll read Finn by Jon Clinch multiple times.

#10 - aluvalibri - I'll second you on Possession. Definitely my favorite. Although I am just finishing up The Road, and it is going to be way up on my list as well.

... (Yeah, right.) Harry Potter 6&7--hopefully borrowed :) Blink: by Malcolm Gladwell The Corrections Saturday The Road Slaughterhouse Five oooh, what's that one the library has waiting for me? Oh yeah, Half of a Yellow Sun, a recent LT suggestion!

I finished The Road, not exactly an upper, but I liked how simple it was. The relationship between the father and son is pretty intense and powerful. I am going to start Under the Duvet for a bit of a lighter read.

... Guide to the Galaxy. It was a interesting way to see the Jane Eyre novel. Also finishing up American Gods and The Road in the next day or two. I had an eventful weekend so not as much reading time as I would have liked.

... on Saturday and that has been the perfect setting for the novel. I have convinced my non-fiction reading husband to read The Road. I hope he likes it! Happy reading!

Thanks Hazelk #138, for not spoiling The Road but I discovered that I am no. 9 on the list at the library so looks like it will be a while before I get to read it! On a happier note, have now got into The Post-Birthday World and am finding the second half of the book much more interesting! ...

Having read The Road by Cormac McCarthy in about a day I've just started Spies by Michael Frayn Regarding The Road I was totally gripped by it as well as haunted with the proviso I didn't think too much of the ending. I won't 'spoil' as I've noticed judylou on here (>117) is going to ...

#56, I've been looking at The Road recently... I'll have to pick it up sometime. This weekend I was in Mexico with All the Pretty Horses, also by Cormac McCarthy, and now I'm in Amsterdam (with some memories of Lisbon) in The Coffee Trader by David Liss.

... I found We need to talk about Kevin to be a very powerful and moving book, and hoped this one would be too. Next up is The Road on order from the library.

I'm in a post-apocalyptic USA with The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I only started it this morning and I'm already half way through. Haunting is the word.

... your family in cordoroy and denium and could not stop laughing...dangerous to listen to while driving. I just started The Road, one that I probably wouldn't have picked up if I hadn't heard so much chatter about it on LT. I'm also reading Forever in Blue as a fun summer read. Still ...

June was a slow month... Attempted: The Road Cormac Mcarthy Call me a wimp but I could not finish this book. I would be lying in bed thinking about it making me upset. 29. The Glass Castle: A memoir 3.5/5 Easy and quick to read. Incredible story about a tough childhood and really bad ...

... Saramago (from the library) 2) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (from PaperBackSwap) 3) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (from Zooba) Interesting, #1 and #3 have no commas and quotation marks! Must be marks (or lack thereof) of genius writers! =)

... not like The Lovely Bones either. I thought it was extremely depessing and had a hard time finishing it. Same thing w/ The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Everyone loved it but I hated it--again depressing and actually pretty boring.

If you read The Road, you should pick up a copy of The Pesthouse. Jim Crace is a very talented British author.

... is actually quite uplifting despite the topic and deals with American decline after an apocylapse. Similar in theme is The Road by Cormac McCormac, which is on my TBR pile and deals with the same topic in a more violent manner - I think. Anyone read these?

The Road isn't considered a genre title (even though it could be) but I just tried a BookScan Google search just to see what numbers it would spit back at me and I got this dated from 4-23-07. "The Road" is also one of McCarthy's most popular books, spending several weeks on numerous best-sell ...

I finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy yesterday. What a stressful book--I was exhausted, reading with my heart in my throat the whole time. On to something lighter--I just started Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris.

If you tell me where a limited signed edition of The Road by Cormac McCarthy is offered for sale I'll go buy a copy or two. Or three or four.

... in Alabama by Mark Childress, Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres, Looking for Alaska, All Over but the Shoutin', The Road, Ethan Frome and Gramercy Park. And who knows what I could add by the end of next week :) It has been a very good quarter of reading for me.

... Philip Roth A perverse book (in a good way). I wish we read this book in high school that would have been fun. 27. The Road by Cormac McCarthy His newest book is suppose to be his best one yet, I liked No Country for Old Men better, but what do I know?

... and uncomfortable, and I know I'll be thinking about it for the next few days, poking at meanings. Today I'll start The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

... the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

... for Vendetta by Alan Moore and I second Canticle for Leibowitz. The recent The Pesthouse by Jim Crace and The Road by Cormac McCarthy were pretty good also - although the things they have to say are more subtle than, say, the Atwood or the Bradbury.

Recently finished: * Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson -- which I didn't like as much as Gilead * The Road by Cormac McCarthy -- depressing but very engaging ... I read it in about 2 sittings Currently reading: * Coffee, Tea, or Me by Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones -- ...

45 McCarthy, Cormac The Road 256 pages 46 Gaiman, Neil Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders audiobooks 47 Hesse, Hermann Steppenwolf 248 pages

... lower 3 (replace by The Road), but it is still one of my favorites of the year: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ...

... change things later): Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 4.75 The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg - 4.75 The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 5 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho -5

... by Kate Mosse and enjoyed it, then read Water for Elephants all yesterday. Very good. Now I'm thinking of starting The Road before getting back to my Kathy Reichs "Bones" books for a while, which are nice for summer reading. OH, and I'm waiting for hubby to finish Blaze by Richard ...

... But now that it's handed in I've started reading The glass castle : a memoir which is quite good so far. I gave up on The Road which I started a few weeks ago but couldn't read, and just today traded it in at the second hand shop. Too much for me.

I recently read The Road - I wouldn't necessarily compare it one way or the other to books by Jack London. But I loved the message of The Road - couldn't put it down!

I'm going to re-read some of Bill Brysons books. I am going to finish The Road and read The Glass Palace: a memoir then I'm going to start on a trilogy by Isabelle Allende starting with Daughter of Fortune. That will probably take me right into July!

... and times of the Thunderbolt Kid: a memoir Bill Bryson 5/5 28.Meridon : a novel Philippa Gregory 2.5/5 Attempted: The Road Cormac McCarthy 0 29. The Glass Castle: a memoir Jeannette Walls 30. The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 4.5/5 31. The Alchemist Paolo Coelho 32. Lik ...

... it will be my next read. Apparently Oprah picked it as a summer read. I don't know what that implies, but I thought The Road (thoroughly enjoyed) was an odd choice for her as well.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837 by Ben Wilson The Time Machine by H.G. Wells with illustrations by Edward Gorey (!!) Also awaiting, but not yet received: The ...

I would have to say The Road was my favorite for May but I also enjoyed All Over But the Shoutin' - I read two other books in May - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax and Because It Is Bitter, and Because It is My Heart. Enjoyed the Mrs. Pollifax but wound up hating Because it is bitter. I hope ...

... SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini (31/05/07) **** 2. THE THIRTEENTH TALE by Diane Setterfield (02/06/07). **** 3. THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy (05/06/07) ** 4. THIS BOOK WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE by A M Homes (10/06/07) *** 5. DEAR GHOSTS, by Tess Gallagher (16/06/07) **** 6. THE ROAD ...

I thought the ending of The Road was wonderful.

... relegate it to bedtime reading. That way it doesn't bother me if I only get through a chapter a night. Of course, if The Road is really disturbing, it might not make for the best bedtime reading. I'm working my way through The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. It's not bad, ...

Last week I started reading The Road and as a result didn't read at all for 4 days. It's not the writing but the content that is troubling me. It's really depressing me and I'm finding other things to do than read. So I bought and read Meridon the last book of a trilogy by Philippa Gregory ...

Just finished About Alice which was wonderful and am about to start The Road

... It's really fun to read in bits and pieces any longer than 30 minutes and I have to put it down. Next I will read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and if there if there's time The Glass Palace: a memoir by Jeannette Walls. Both books I heard about here at Library Thing - Thanks!

23. The Road by Cormac McCarthy- The Road is a novel about a father and son's attempt at survival in a burned out future America. Above all else, it is a story about the love between a father and son as well as being about he clash of cultures in the modern world. This is an amazing book. ...

... with artists choosing not to conform to societal conventions, and I appreciated Maugham's twist at the end. I started The Road by Cormac McCarthy last night, and I am about 180 pages into it. I cannot put it down. McCarthy's descriptions of a postapocolyptic wasteland are mesmerizing, ...