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The road by Cormac McCarthyA father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. "The Road" boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, 'each the other's world entire', are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

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Anonymous Achingly good 0 Dec 10 2008, 9:13 AM EST by Anonymous
 
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I think this is beautifully written. I read it straight through and when I came to the end, I read it again. I don't normally like sci-fi/futuristic work, but this, I thought, was a harrowing and a special book.

"..... like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world...."
"..... the blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and inpenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening to.... he rose and stood tottering in that cold, autistic dark......"

The author does away with all normal punctuation because everything 'normal' in the man and boy's world has been obliterated too.

One of the best books I've ever read: I've recommended it to many people.
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Anonymous A sparse, grim horror of life after global warming 0 Dec 10 2008, 9:08 AM EST by Anonymous
 
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This story has an interesting relationship between a man and a boy.
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Anonymous Mesmerizing 0 Dec 10 2008, 9:05 AM EST by Anonymous
 
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This book is hopeful in a dreadful world. I didn't like the lack of puncuation though.
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