The Road

I talked to the author Ryan Holiday about why he nominated Cormac McCarthy's The Road as one of his top books of the 21st century.

Can I quote something else from the book? It's just right on what you're saying.

I love it. The Road captures both the beauty and the horror of being a parent. Do not get me started on that scene.

Well, in the road you'd want to be with Klobuchar

All right. I think where we left off the United States was a version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Yeah, yeah. And The Walking Dead.

I'm gonna recommend a movie I've recommended it before. Did you see the road G? I've told you to watch it. You did. Okay, you enjoyed it, right Joe. Do you ever see it? The road no Viggo Mortensen.

It is a really amazing movie. It talks about the apocalypse, but they never tell you how they get there. Is it a volcano a nuclear strike? It basically I'm not gonna give away the whole movie, but it basically just starts with almost everyone's dead.

If you really want to get depressed go watch the road with Viggo Mortensen about what the end of the world it is the most Candid Frank assessment of what the end of the world would look like without the hysteria

It's this guy and his kid it's based on a fantastic Cormac McCarthy novel and the end of the world is here and there's just patches of people alive that basically hunt each other down and are absolute mercenaries and do whatever they want to do But man, it's real and it's raw you want to get depressed if that's what makes you happy go watch that you want that

I'm not going to, it would be cheating, but what I will say is that this is a great summer to revisit or to introduce yourself to the entire pantheon of Cormac McCarthy. Lots of people are familiar with The Road, but people are not generally familiar, I think, with some of his other works.

Lots of people are familiar with The Road, but people are not generally familiar, I think, with some of his other works.

You probably want some good books to read that are going to be easy and enjoyable and not bore you and make you feel despondent at the fact that you can only get through half a page without bowing out

At the very beginning of Cormac McCarthy's excellent postapocalyptic book, The Road, the protagonist, who's never given a name, says of his son ... the child is my warrant, and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

the road by Cormac McCarthy is the best novel of the 21st century so far I wholeheartedly agree and it's my all time favorite novel I first read it as a 16 year old and thought I liked it because it was a nuclear apocalypse book I'm reading it again after discovering my wife is pregnant and it turns out I love this book because it's about fatherhood

I first picked it up maybe 6, 7 years ago at a bookstore and I hated it I read maybe 15 pages of 15, 20 pages I sat there and read it and thought it was terrible I put it down and then a couple years ago I was motivated to pick it up again and my reaction could not have been any different it was a total 180 in terms of my perception of the book and I found it to be really powerful and moving I think I read the whole thing maybe not in one night but in two nights

the story revolves around this father desperately trying to protect his son at all costs, not just physically but also keeping the fire of goodness alive within them, even as the world collapses into cannibalism and chaos

I also thought it was just really well written Cormac McCarthy's style of writing is not for everybody it takes you getting used to it but now I kind of appreciate it

I read The Road in Miami or just south of it.

I read The Road in Miami or just south of there.

And in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, they're in a house looking for food and he finds some jarred some home canned goods on a shelf. And even though everybody's starving to death and has resorted to cannibalism, he finds them and leaves them.

I think even if Cormac McCarthy's The Road, right? There's only so much anxiety to go around.

As you think about your married life, read the works of Cormac McCarthy and look in there for the strict moral code that governs the world of Cormac McCarthy.

Because you'll find that the people that he's most severe with are people who make a decision to do something and then later try to live a life in which they hadn't made that decision.

If you're just flat out evil, Cormac McCarthy doesn't hurt you. He hurts people who dabble in evilness.

Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road, classic Rhodes Scholar.

Cormac McCarthy passed away yesterday, the formidable and reclusive writer who wrote All the Pretty Horses, of course, The Road and so many other classics.

No Country for Old Men. But, you know, I mean, The Road, I remember being particularly moved by it. Just incredible writing.

A combination of, I mean, a singular voice, an enormous figure in American, modern American literature and a guy who who's all of his work like hangs together this dark, stark, almost apocalyptic kind of vision anchored to this really profound moral sense and like that.

That the morality in that kind of shines through and all these very dark visions in his pieces is what made him something more than just a great wordsmith, but a really important artist in American life.

believe it or not, I didn't cry in The Road...the book or the movie, we don't talk about the movie, we'll talk about the book

he talks about carrying the fire like the kid is carrying that's what i think kids are but i also think like helping kids with it keeps the fire in

I stupidly reread Kormac McCarthy's The Road at the beginning of the pandemic.

But there were scenes in here where, you know, you're just chilling out under an underpass and someone takes a shot at you for no reason that kind of reminded me of the the dark insanity of of human beings.

In Cormac McCarthy's haunting novel, The Road, the man believed that everything depended on reaching the coast, yet waking in the night he knew that all of this was empty and had no substance to it. The coast was just an idea, a distant point on the horizon that served as something to measure progress against. No more, no less. So the man kept going.

Yeah, I read the first one. I did not read the second one. They sucked. Yeah, it was kind of sad

It's his last book.

I read the road. I actually read the road on my own and I didn't like it I don't like the road. There's better apocalypse stories.