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>father and son go on journey that takes several months, where they don’t encounter a single friendly person
>dad dies from illness leaving boy to fend for himself
>guy shows up 5 minutes later to save him.

Bullshit ass book. Fuck outta here cormac.

>> No.22258972
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>>22258839
most upvoted goodreads review

>> No.22258978

>>22258839
This book is shit but plotfags are even worse get real you mongoloid

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>to save him

>> No.22259544

>>22258839
you know that they ate the kid once the book was over right?

>> No.22260474

>>22259144
I don't really remember the book. he said they had a boy and a girl with them. was there any indication they were cannibals?
>>22258978
>This book is shit
lol yes. the postapocalypse is drama on training wheels.

>> No.22260621

>>22258839
the story starts with a family
everyone is bad in between
the story ends with a family
it's that simple

>> No.22260641

>>22258839
Did you miss the heavy implications that the kid is some sort of prophet of the last times sent by God?

>> No.22260657

>>22260641
>The woman when she saw him put her arms around
him and held him. Oh, she said, I am so glad to see you. She
would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God
but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him
and he didnt forget. The woman said that was all right. She said
that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from
man to man through all of time.

I don't see it. as Mccarthy said the story is straightforward. it starts with a family, everyone while on the road is bad, then dad dies (along with him dies his over protective way of thinking he instilled on the boy and the reader), the boy comes across another family who reached the end of the road.

>> No.22260667

>>22260657
>He lay watching the boy at the fire. He wanted to be able to see. Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right

>> No.22260670

I read in a thread a long time ago a theory that the last scene is the dying father's feverish delusion/dream while he died. I really like that interpretation, personally.

>> No.22260682

>>22260670
Yo that's a sick theory. I always thought the ending was a bit lame. Like the whole book was bleak as shit and then we got a Disney ending from nowhere? No, bro. I wasn't buying that shit. But this theory makes me appreciate it more.

>> No.22260689

>>22260682
I think if you go and read the last chapter and then compare it with the previous parts, the tense is different. Idk, it's been a long time since I read it, and to be honest I'm not into misery porn anymore anyways so I don't think I would ever revisit it.

>> No.22260851

>>22258972
>t. I could not be arsed to look up words like bitumen or various plant species not native to my area, thus impeding the visual texture of the experience

>>22260670
>>22260682
Shadowing people vet them wouldn't be unreasonable or ill advised in their circumstances -- it's not like they weren't more lucky than brave any number of times on the way to the coast as is.

>> No.22260904

>>22260851
Yeah but, it's made clear in the narration that no living things except humans are still living, without exception. Correc me if I'm wrong tho.

>> No.22260919

>>22258839
>>guy shows up 5 minutes later to save him.
Guy was stalking boy for several months to get a husband for his daughter.

>> No.22261814

>>22260919
>Guy was stalking boy for several months
I think the simplest answer is the correct one: he has a family and he is super cautious. from his perspective the papa could be the monster. the same way papa looks at everyone else as the monster. papa dies, the man takes the boy into his family. the book starts with family and ends with family. it's like a sanction of humanity.
the fever dream and the prophet and the other one where the kid meets his own future self as a family man. all these ideas are too far off.

>> No.22261830

>>22260689
I thought it was a book of hope and optimism. Keeping on in a bleak world and carrying the fire

>> No.22261845

>>22258839
>but what about le plot???

>> No.22261962

Just to clear things up so people don't take the meme shitters seriously: the novel is dedicated to McCarthy's son. The kid is not getting eaten at the end, and he's not implied to literally be the messiah either.

>> No.22261980

>>22258972
Never read this book or author. I just wanted to point out how midwitty that one star review is. Treating a work of ficition and a meme of a research paper as if they are literally the same work is the biggest false equivalency I have ever seen. After, he doubles down with an appeal to popularity. And the whole time, the reviewer seems to believe some grand conspiracy that "intellectuals" and "erudite works" are all performing an elaborate joke on him.

>the book can't mean anything because that would mean I didn't get it. That can't be. I am a really smart guy!