/lit/ - Literature

>>19811771
You love them because at least your instincts work

>>19811799
This scenario doesn’t makes sense. What’s going on?

>>19782941
>82802nd time this has been brought up
>Not once is the book mentioned

It's been years since I read this, but I remember that I stuck with it to the end because there was no way some truly awful shit wasn't going to end up happening. The world this father and son inhabit is completely hostile, basically just armed and organized cannibals and their victims. No fucking way this is going to end well. I thought McCarthy was going to have the balls to write a truly dark ending, because what other option did he have given the setup?
>oh wait they're actually nice lol
>if only my dad had been more trusting of the other inhabitants of cannibal apocalypse world, maybe he'd still be alive right now
This ending was a complete cop-out. The idea of a happy ending in that world is not at all plausible. And no, the dad dying and the boy being rescued does not fucking cut it. There was also a moral message implied about the dad's refusal to trust, which falls completely flat because he was totally right not to trust anyone given the shit they'd seen. What a joke.