Member Review
Review by
Sara B, Reviewer
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Thank you Netgallery UK for a copy for an unbiased review.
It should be noted this edition is part of the Picador Collection, a series of the best in contemporary literature, inaugurated in Picador's 50th Anniversary year.
For various reasons this is a book that I've just never got around to reading. So with Netgallery offering the chance I decided to take it.
Where to begin?
In three words. It was awful!
That's it in the simplest terms, yet in this book the dialogue is anything but simple. It is a jumbled mess of repetition, is pretty often stilted and, well just bad. I heard that the author has been lauded for his mastery of language. Yet all I saw was a mess. I finished the book. Eventually. It has been nothing more than a slog start to finish, and despite being something I rarely do, I contemplated having this as a DNF book. Even though I did finish it, it was just so devoid of anything that felt as if I could be positive over it.
I'm rarely this disparaging over a book, but this one deserves to be placed into a deep dark hole somewhere and forgotten about.
If I could give this zero stars I would. So 1/5 stars will have to suffice.
Thank you Netgallery UK for a copy for an unbiased review.
It should be noted this edition is part of the Picador Collection, a series of the best in contemporary literature, inaugurated in Picador's 50th Anniversary year.
For various reasons this is a book that I've just never got around to reading. So with Netgallery offering the chance I decided to take it.
Where to begin?
In three words. It was awful!
That's it in the simplest terms, yet in this book the dialogue is anything but simple. It is a jumbled mess of repetition, is pretty often stilted and, well just bad. I heard that the author has been lauded for his mastery of language. Yet all I saw was a mess. I finished the book. Eventually. It has been nothing more than a slog start to finish, and despite being something I rarely do, I contemplated having this as a DNF book. Even though I did finish it, it was just so devoid of anything that felt as if I could be positive over it.
I'm rarely this disparaging over a book, but this one deserves to be placed into a deep dark hole somewhere and forgotten about.
If I could give this zero stars I would. So 1/5 stars will have to suffice.
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