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gnatsaredancing t1_j9xwbfs wrote

It reads like someone went on a wikipedia spree to just get all the shock schlock from warzones and sieges to string together into the most flat and generic possible "story".

So yeah, if you don't get your jollies reading about the miserable and cruel things we do to each other, it won't be for you.

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JoyousDiversion t1_j9xx4qs wrote

Cormac McCarthy going on a Wikipedia spree sounds like one of the least likely things to ever happen

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gnatsaredancing t1_j9yci7p wrote

I didn't say he did. I said that's how the novel reads. The Road is a tediously bland tale of two people slogging through the most generic possible apocalypse while failing to hold a conversation.

It's a dreary playlist of unimaginative atrocities that ends >!on a silly christmas miracle when the boy is picked up by The Last Nice People on Earth when his dad dies.!<

It's easily the most overrated book I've ever read by far.

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