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Someone please tell me why everyone loves/gets heart broken over this book. It was kind of interesting at parts but overall it was really plain to me. Even the relationship between the father and son we kind of dull.

>> No.1970021

I couldn't read the book, but the movie was depressing as fuck.

>> No.1970039

From what I understand, it's because the novel won the Pulitzer.

The Pulitzer has a long history of being awarded to an accomplished (and otherwise good) author who just had some turd of a new book published. The committee can't go back and award McCarthy the Pulitzer for "Blood Meridian," for example, so they just give it to him for "The Road," despite the fact that it is a tedious work McCarthy probably shit out in a few hours.

>> No.1970053

>>1970021
Really? I thought the book was reasonably lyrical, but the movie was really boring.

>> No.1970071

Shit gets dusty
Wear old clothes over and over again
No food, starve until more food
Tons of tins
See 1 or 2 disturbing sites
Walk walk walk walk
rain rain rain
Sleep
Dead
Walk off with another family

that's pretty much the book in a nutshell.

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>> No.1970118

>>1970117
Got a better summery?

>> No.1970127

I don't really get all the hype over it either. It wasn't bad though.

>> No.1970136

The moral of the story is: suffering is caused by not trusting people and fearing that everyone is out to get you.

>> No.1970138
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1970138

You are an emotionally stunted individual if you didn't understand this book. Or you are fucking retarded and didn't "understand" it.

>> No.1970141

>>1970118
>Got a better summery?
>summery?
Words fail me.

>> No.1970150

>>1970141

Words obviously fail >>1970118 too.

>> No.1970152

>Even the relationship between the father and son we kind of dull.

I've been saying this for over a year

>> No.1970161
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1970161

Listen to this album while reading this book.

>> No.1970168

Seems like a lot of buildup to nothing.
I thought all along that they were gonna reveal toward the end that they had some plan that wasn't made too obvious to the reader
I thought the references to "carrying the fire" was gonna turn out to have some kind of deeper, euphemistic meaning.
the style was obviously unique but idk if that made it worth reading

>> No.1970172

>>1970161
What album is this?

>> No.1970173

>>1970168

But in that kind of world, what possible plan could you have? Humanity was doomed and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

>> No.1970174

>>1970172

Jesu - Ascension

>> No.1970176

this one too

>> No.1970178

>>1970173
I was just hoping there was some kind of trick up their sleeve or at least some kind of destination or goal - not just: shit sucks, humanity is doomed ->shit still sucks, humanity is probably still doomed

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1970467

Haven't read it, but I saw the film. I felt it rather well. I can imagine the book being "better" or moreso.

Could it be that the OP is just an emotionally dead shell?
Not trying to make fun of you OP. Just wondering about your ...connectivity to humanity, if you will.