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> Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.

What did he mean by this?

No seriously, I've read this line like 20 times... It's on the first page of The Road. I think I'm having a stroke. "Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease." what the actual fuck is this supposed to mean? Is it missing some punctuation or something?

Are there any books that really feel like "The Road"?

I don't think I've ever read a book that describes and shows people in the same way. They don't talk much and just wander around, eating people. Probably the best 'people are unpredictable and scary' type of books.

Even the old dude who got hit by lightning creeped me out. He just sat down and chilled out. Didn't even ask for help.

I don't care what anyone says, the movie's far better than the book.

Every scene that's in both, the movie does far better.
>The movie does the roadrat scene better
>The movie does the cannibal house better and makes it far scarier
>The mother's a lot better in the movie: a sympathetic woman broken by depression and despair rather than some cartoon villain
Everything was better. It even kept out stupid stuff like the man who was struck by lightning.

>What about the army of cannibals?
That scene was stupid, even in the book.

>What about that group of men and one pregnant woman, and once the woman gives birth they roast the baby and eat it
That's the sole concession I'd make; that could've been in the movie.

Also, Cormac writes at a 4th grade level, and I'm not referring to the deliberately bad punctuation which he likes to do.

(If I made any "mistakes" in punctuation, it's because I'm also writing in Cormac's bad punctuation style.)

I think I got filtered.
30 pages of repetitive descriptions, but nothing really happens. Does it changes or is it like this the whole book?

This is Spot. See Spot run. Spot chases the ball and he catches the ball and he chews it then he spits it out.
Spot are you tired?
Yes. I am tired.
Okay.
Okay.

Finished reading it today. It was so good. My first read by the author. The words and prose felt weird at first till the 10% mark but after that i lost myself in the flow. Really liked it.

>this one is pretty accurate actually

This is the last great american novel written.
Few understand just how poignant it is...a brilliant masterpiece.

In its themes, lies a subtext addressing post-modernist nihilism, classism, historic dark ages, vulgarization of language, ethics of euthaniasia, and moral lessons of cannibalizing the past to move forward (like we did with the body of christ).

other pessimistic post-apocalyptic books?

>>18151996
imo this book btfos antinatalists for all time

Sad books about parenthood?

I know The Road is a post-apocalyptic book, but the themes are pretty set in stone in its relation to parenthood. Anything similar?

Books about suffering and endurance, whether it be futile or a worthwhile effort. Something gritty and realistic, not fantasy/aliens/zombies. Books like pic related

>look out onto the grey landscape
>almost out of food
>grey
>few days pass
>grey
>grey

>>13913092
*Blocks your path and sharts all over it*

Can this be considered Sci-fi?
(post apocalyptic wasteland survival)