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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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The Road is quite a peculiar novel since there isn't much of a plot to speak of. A boy and his father walk along a road in a post apocalyptic setting where the snow is grey and living human beings are a rare sight.
The whole setting is so bleak and tragic that you cannot help but feel empathy with the two main characters that seems to be all alone in this depressing world. All of the novel?s elements go extremely well with each other, the lack of plot, the grey landscape and the simple but yet touching conversations between father and son.
Thrown together, this creates an atmosphere and an entire world that seems complete and without flaws and more importantly believable, even though it is never explained how the world got to be like this. That is left for us to imagine ? world war III? A global natural disaster? You don't know and that wonderment is part of what keeps you reading.
It is hard to find any complaints regarding this book because it is very well written, but something that bothered me was the lack of punctuation. Perhaps this was only in the Danish translation, I cannot say, but that did throw me off a few times. Another thing you have to get used to when reading this book, is that there are no inquits at all, no indication of who is talking or when someone is talking, though it doesn't take very long to adjust.
In conclusion The Road is a very touching book and it is definitely a good read but the fact that not much happens in the book might cause some readers to put this book down after a while. It is a simple and immersive novel and paints a depressing but still compelling picture of a broken tomorrow.
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