The Road

[Anonymous No.19753467]

Jesus Christ this is painful to read.

I almost want them to die at this point.

[Anonymous No.19753590]

>>19753467
>this is painful to read
Give examples.

[Anonymous No.19753632]

>>19753467
>Pulitzer prize
Dropped

[Anonymous No.19753650]

>>19753590
>The boy lay with his face in his arms, terrified. They passed two hundred feet away, the ground shuddering lightly. Tramping. Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen of them, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites, illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each.”

[Anonymous No.19753653]

>>19753650
>and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites
uh bros what if the end of the world happens and we all end up getting raped?

[Anonymous No.19753661]

>>19753653
I have a feeling those are the kinds of people who get killed first no questions asked just immediate summary execution

[Anonymous No.19753675]

>>19753590
Literally any dialogue between the guy and the son.
> I'm really hungry, Papa.
>
> I know.
>
> Will we be able to find our stuff?
>
> Yes. I know where it is.
>
> What if somebody finds it?
>
> They wont find it.
>
> I hope they dont.
>
> They wont. Come on.
>
> What was that?
>
> I didnt hear anything.
>
> Listen.
>
> I dont hear anything.
>
> They listened. Then in the distance he heard a dog bark. He turned >and looked toward the darkening town. It's a dog, he said.
>
> A dog?
>
> Yes.

[Anonymous No.19753718]

>>19753653
You should be my catamite ;)

[Anonymous No.19753728]

I thought it was kino

[Anonymous No.19753741]

>>19753467
McCarthy is a truly HEINOUS writer of prose, his technical style is complete shit, his philosophical ideas are some of the most surface-level meditations over baby's first nihilist musings, yet his themes and characters are interesting enough to carry a novel all the way to the end. For a prosefag like myself, reading his books is like sitting in some kind of limbo between great prose and a barely passable graps of written language.

[Anonymous No.19753871]

>>19753675
>t. has never been around kids as an adult

[Anonymous No.19753874]

>>19753871
kids arent that retarded.

[Anonymous No.19753878]

>>19753467
imagine running up to that faggy little kid and punting him in his stupid head lol

[Anonymous No.19753892]

>>19753878

[Anonymous No.19753897]

>>19753874
>boy born during apocalypse
>has probably never seen a dog before let alone hears one
OMG FUCKING MCHACKTHY HOW COULD HE NOT KNOW WHAT A DOG IS!!!!

[Anonymous No.19753906]

>>19753892
Benedict Cuminmysnatch has implied gay sex with him in The Power of the Dog (anthrax really). He also looks gayer than ever before in that movie too.

[Anonymous No.19753909]

>>19753897
i meant the way he talks. kids dont speak like braindead morons.

[Anonymous No.19753910]

>>19753892
>McPhee
DAMN this dude popped out of Nanny McPhee's snatch?

[Anonymous No.19753915]

>>19753909
>t. has never been around kids
Just shut up you stupid incel. Kids ask questions like that all the time because they are CURIOUS AND KNOW NOTHING AND REALLY ON THEIR PARENTS TO INFORM THEM ABOUT THE WORLD.

[Anonymous No.19753917]

>>19753871
That's probably a good thing!

[Anonymous No.19753918]

>>19753915
>t. hasn't read the book

[Anonymous No.19753923]

>>19753915
no idea what your problem but the kid objectively speaks like a brainlet

[Anonymous No.19753925]

>>19753915

Neither character talks like a real human being. The kid especially is glaringly simple. I'm sure McCarthy did this for some artistic purpose but it's shocklingly on the nose.

[Anonymous No.19753929]

>>19753741
You are a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.19753935]

>>19753909
>>19753915
The boy is probably autistic. He didn't have a normal upbringing after all. He was born to a world already gone to shit. Also McCarthy based some of the dialogue on his own son.... yeah.

[Anonymous No.19753978]

>>19753909
I thought that the frankness of the dialouge was supposed to represent the apocalypse changing the way people communicated with eachother, with the directness reflecting the genuine relationship between the father and the son

[Anonymous No.19753994]

>>19753978
i guess thats a reasonable idea. he took it too far though imo

[Anonymous No.19754009]

It's just a slow, boring read, I've been stalled at around pg 80 for a month now

[Anonymous No.19754046]

>>19753741
You know shit about technique, fake prosefag.

[Anonymous No.19754710]

>>19753467
Didn't interest me in even after 30 percent. Dropped it.

[Anonymous No.19755940]

Can I jsut watch the movie instead?
Is it close enough in plot to the book?

[Anonymous No.19756714]

>>19753650
pretty hot desu

[Anonymous No.19756730]

>>19753925
you're an idiot

[Anonymous No.19756734]

>>19753741

[Anonymous No.19756777]

It's been a while since I read it, but isn't it only 100 pages? And aren't most of those pages dead space because there's like a paragraph every page?

[Anonymous No.19756836]

>>19753906
Great movie but Benny Cum really sucks at playing a cowboy. I almost stopped watching twenty minutes in because he sounded like Roger from American Dad's impersonation of a cowboy. Why would they cast a Brit in a western?

[Anonymous No.19756876]

>>19753675
Pure dialogue in a novel almost always seems a bit dumb.

[Anonymous No.19757438]

The Road is hands down the worst book I've ever read, and I've read dozens of completely shit books. Only redeeming quality is that I ran into Jodie Foster while reading it and she complemented my choice of book.

[Anonymous No.19757457]

>>19757438
you should have lost all respect for her in that moment and ahted that book even more for ruining her for you.

[Anonymous No.19758262]

>>19753650
>”Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen of them, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites, illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each.”
Ave, true to Caesar!

[Anonymous No.19758290]

>>19753650
That's very easy and painless to read. Are you trying to say the content is disturbing? ("Hard to read"?)

[Anonymous No.19758311]

>>19755940
yeah

[Anonymous No.19758389]

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.

[Anonymous No.19758541]

Why is the world an apocalypse in this book?
Give me the tl;dr.
Where do they think they're going to get away from the apocalypse?

[Anonymous No.19758679]

Okay.
Okay.
Okay.

[Anonymous No.19759154]

Still a better story than Blood Meridian