The Road Reviews

Only two brief flashback scenes take the reader back to the moment of destruction, which might have been a nuclear war, or possibly a series of meteor strikes, or something else entirely. There were explosions, the power went out, and everything began to...

Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, is not something that I would ever have picked up off of the shelf on my own.  One of the bartenders at our favorite watering hole and I have been talking and sharing books for several months.  His contribution to our informal little "book club" was lending me his copy of The Road.  To be honest, if I didn't know he was going to ask me what I thought of it, I probably wouldn't have even finished it... but I'm glad that I did.

The Road is commonly described as a "post-apocalyptic tale" that follows the progression of a father and son as they walk their way...

I will read the occasional post-apocalyptic book if a trusted friend or reviewer tells me it's worth my time and will cause me to think a little deeper.

 I have not returned to other such novels: On the Beach, The Stand, others.

Think of it this way: I saw Silence of the Lambs. I saw Road to Perdition. I am glad I saw them both. They gave me a lot to mull. They stick with me and change me. This is what good art does.

But I will never see these films again; they are too dark, the hard parts just too hard, to endure again.

This is how I meet the post-apocalyptic tale: I will face you once, take what...