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I don't buy that you forgot "that" -- "that" was one of the most harrowing images of the entire book: a meat locker of decaying, but living, human meat crying out for help.
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Some people are better off sticking to Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
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02-11-2009, 08:57 PM | #23 |
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There are many things to say about a book like The Road and I don't think it makes someone an imbecile to focus on McCarthy's unusual punctuation if it's the first McCarthy book they've read. Because they don't start with the larger points you silently have in mind doesn't mean the book's larger points escaped them or failed to move them. Stop being an obtuse dipshit and say something intelligent yourself about The Road.
You probably just read The Road as an emergency preparedness parable.
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Gave me a chuckle, so funny.
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Mike will do an adequate job of reviewing, The Road. It's not that complex but represents a journey from the Appalachians after an apocalyptic event involving a sophisticated, intelligent father and his son, about ten or eleven. The Father is mentoring the son in maintaining his humanity even though he may have lost hope that humanity still exists. The end portends to some realization of the struggles and hopes of the two.
It shows not survivalist intentions, but rather shows a degradation of humanity. In some respects, I see it as anti-parallel to Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."
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