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A man and his son take a stroll during the end of the world.

Actually, that‘s not even a bad description. It‘s pretty much dead on.

Oh my God who did this ???

If Cormac McCarthy helped write Old Town Road...it's a SPOT ON writing impersonation.

"Old Town The Road" by Lil Nas X and Cormac McCarthy

Full text:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/old-town-the-road-by-lil-nas-x-featuring-cor...

#litsylaughs

Horrifying and unforgettable

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to

Less #highwaytohell and more destroyed highway IN hell. Not my usual cuppa, but I was entranced by this sparse dystopian tale of a man and boy trying to get . . . somewhere.
#maymoviemagic @cinfhen @rohit-sawant

“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”

#highwaytohell #marchintothe70s
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen

“The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held by cores of blackened looters who tunneled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying charred and anonymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commissaries of hell.”

#MarchIntoThe70s | 13: #HighwayToHell

📷: Made with Typorama

1. -33 and falling today, but I found a little rainbow.
2. I kinda like our neighborhood. It‘s really quiet. But I don‘t know many of my neighbors. But it‘s a great central location.
3. Favourite read in a long time. It won‘t leave my head.
4. Before bed, when everyone is quiet.
5. Roasted chicken thighs and a cabbage salad with sesame dressing. Side of basmati for the kids.
#friyayintro @howjessreads

Bleak, haunting, beautiful, brilliant. It ripped out my heart and stomped on it. And I absolutely loved it.

The windchill is -30 again. Ugh! I‘m so over winter. Hubby said The Road did things to him and I should watch the movie. But why watch a movie when you can read the book? My library hold come in, so this is what I‘m reading today. It matches the bleak, snowy cold outside my window.

#MusicalNewYear #BoulevardofBrokenDreams Chances are that if you have ever posted about this book I‘ve probably commented that the sun does not shine while you read this book. This is also filed under my “too sad to cry” section. (Right next to House of Sand and Fog, the movie) Cormac, who hurt you in life? Lol

May well be his greatest work, while quite probably his most intensely personal one.

"You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."

• The heartbreak starts early with this one... •

• Trying but I'm not sure I'm emotionally ready for it right now •

A few snags from a church book sale! #bookhaul #oprahsbookclub #tbr #brandnew

The classic post-apocalyptic novel about a man and his son, walking through a wasteland of America. It's bleak and sparse and depressing and utterly engrossing.

Day 13: #adventrecommends
@emilyrose_x

Reread for work. I never enjoy reading this book but it is so well written.

Completely bleak, but I loved it. I tried reading the book years ago and struggled to get halfway. The audio was much easier. McCarthy isn't for everyone, but fiction of the dystopian/post-apoc variety, even the more literary versions like this book, makes me contemplate survival and all its complexities. Not sure why I like that, but I do lol.

This is the kind of dystopian survival story I like. I really had to get used to not having quotation marks for the dialogue, and I think in a book with more characters/conversation it would have been frustrating.

Welp. Not the best run for me right now.

I felt like this was one I *should* read & that 117 pages was a good test of Cormac McCarthy. I don't mind dark/depressing subject matter (I'm about to move on to Gillian Flynn), but the sentence fragments & lack of punctuation drove me crazy! Not to mention having to look up 3-4 words per page, many of which aren't in the dictionary.

Am I the only one?

Usually I have 2 to 3 books going at the same time; physical book, audio book and an ebook or short story collection.
#tuesdaytidbits @SilversReviews

Probably between pick and so-so for me? Some bits are really sluggish and hard to wade through but I really appreciate the symbolism and originality of this book! I‘ve never come across a book as stylised as this one; it‘s fascinating! And although some of the language and descriptions are lengthy and confusing, they were also beautiful and poetic. It‘s not an engrossing story but it is a fascinating one.

(My brother detests it 😂)

Uh. I have many questions.

I was scanning bar codes into LibraryThing. I‘ve heard The Road called many things but never this.

This is absolutely the most miserable book I've ever read. But it's also one of my favorites. What's that saying? #misery loves company? 😉

#octoberxfiles
@Cinfhen @Robothugs

So much #misery in this one! #octoberxfiles

Not doing a lot for my Monday mood. Seriously, though, so far so good.

Father and son focus on pure day by day survival, in this post-apocalyptic novel, rather than thinking of #thedayaftertomorrow. #septemberdanes

Expanding the definition of science fiction for this month‘s Sci-fi Book Club

Brilliant storytelling, the wording and imagery he creates is just so vivid.

He writes in short chapters and it just keeps you wanting more, I read this book in a few sittings.

It's one of my favourites. It's gripping, scary, heartbreaking, and beautiful.

❤🔥

#cormacmccarthy

A solid and quick read. I was expecting a lot more violence. I am curious on what happened. was there a volcano chain that went off? #southern

#bookclub meeting on Friday! At #tedandwallys and went with a Nutella fried plaintain ice cream

Just a small haul. No big deal.

This was a so-so for me. In the beginning I found it to be a real pageturner, and was curious to find out what had happened to this grey, grey world. In the middle, it got a bit repetitive though. Even though I found the writing to be great, something was still lacking for me. I guess my expectations were too high going in, as I had heard from several people that this was the best book ever. Unfortunately not the case for me. #unpopularopinion ⬇️

This was the first audiobook I ever listened to back in my freshman year of college. It totally changed my world- realizing that this medium was so popular and so accessible. I just relistened to it and it was just as haunting, beautiful and heartbreaking as I remembered. An amazing story of perseverance (physical, mental, spiritual, emotional) in the face of adversity #theroad

#readingresolutions day 24 #father @jess7

"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God, God never spoke."

The man and his son are the first to pop in my head for this prompt. It is an absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking story and I love it with a fierce passion. It drives me mad when people say they do not like it, so seldom do I discuss it.

Contemporary classic

#cormacmccarthy #theroad #bookdiscussion #novel #postapocalyptic #horror #booknerd #bookstagram

Depressing but allowed me to think a lot

It has been tons of fun and we are so sad to see our first photo challenge end. We are planning the next ones and hope to see you all back for that! If you want us to tag you in the next one just let us know below! Keep posting any days you might have missed. All participants please email me at erinsgrantham@gmail.com with your Litsy name and #requiredreadingredo. You made it a huge success and we want to send some treats!

I‘ve challenged my husband to a reading commitment/book club. His first choice is Adrift by Rob Boffard and I have chosen the lighthearted story of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. 😬

Seven day FB challenge pick.

Less than $5 total for these finds. Top 3 for my daughter @Schlorholtz , the other two are something different for me. Don‘t know when I‘ll get to them.....

I finished it just now. I'm overwhelmed by the feelings it evoked in me.