The Road: Mc Carthy C.

Ich fand‘s ganz großartig, toll erzählt, traurig, schön, beängstigend, erschreckend und einfach gut. Ein Buch, das absolut im Gedächtnis bleibt.

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We follow a man and his son on the road trying to survive in a burned down country where nothing exists anymore. The mood throughout the book is hopeless and you can feel dread on all of the pages. While I do not know if that is necessarily something I like in a book I think the author does it well.I really like the language of the book, the author painted a picture of a world in black and grey really well. But through the writing style it was hard for me to connect with the characters. The narrator always referred to them as 'the man' and 'the boy' and while we get some thoughts and feelings of the protagonist it still felt distant and not like you could really see inside him. I would also have liked a bit more insight into the relationship of the boy and the man because I thought they had a really insteresting dynamic. I also liked that the book made me think about certain topics like what makes life worth living. I have kind of mixed feeling about the end.