The Road by Cormac McCarty

[Fee-Fi-Fo-Figger]

Is the most depressing god damn thing I've ever read. It took like two days after I finished it to recall it's one good note. It takes place in a future that has no niggers; just plenty of humans acting worse than niggers.

Seriously don't read this book or see the movie unless you are in to graphic depictions of infanticide and cannibalism.


Its well written but it's just so damn bleak....

[umberto]

It takes place in a future that has no niggers; just plenty of humans acting worse than niggers.

With the way things are going, that might make it as prescient as "Brave New World"

[Al Sharpton's Race Card]

The movie is coming out early next year.

[Anonymous Coward]

I loved this book. The depiction of tenderness and love between a father and son in a brutal world is very touching. It is also very well written and Cormac McCarthy is a wonderful word-smith.

***SPOILERS BELOW***

And I disagree it's completely bleak, because the ending proves the boy's faith in humanity is justified. He ends up with a survivalist family who takes in as one of their own. The mother is religious and moral, and the father is honorable. I liked how the veteran father at the end promises the boy he would wrap up his dad for him, and when the boy goes back to check on the body, it had indeed been wrapped up and cleaned. I think the boy is going to be okay, and his faith in humanity was not totally crushed.

***END SPOILER***

[niggerphobe]

i was pretty reluctant to buy this author as one of his other books (or more ) is on Orcas book of the mumphf club. If fellow chimpsters approve it might not be too bad and if so what does Orca see in his novels