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<blockquote data-quote="Alsos" data-source="post: 919999" data-attributes="member: 8894">&quot;The Road&quot;. I've read a lot of books that were not very good. I've read a very few books that weren't worth finishing. Not once have I read a book that inspired in me such visceral, passionate hatred of it.Five years after reading it I still can't put into words how much I hate that book and why. Suffice to say it had no plot and no explanation for the situation, despicable characters and gratuitous shock-value scenes, and page after page of blatant, ham-fisted, sledgehammer-subtle attempts at emotional manipulation. I forced myself to finish it, hoping that there would be some payoff at the end, some explanation for all that happened, something to make their grocery-cart-pushing quest across post-apolcalypse America meaningful and worthwhile. Imagine my disappointment when the father gets killed pointlessly at the last minute before rescue, leaving the little boy, who repeatedly deserved to die himself, to be taken in by an enclave of survivors, apparently unfazed by everything that's happened to him and the world around him.I should have known better. It boasted an Oprah Book Club recommendation right on the cover.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alsos, post: 919999, member: 8894"] "The Road". I've read a lot of books that were not very good. I've read a very few books that weren't worth finishing. Not once have I read a book that inspired in me such visceral, passionate hatred of it. Five years after reading it I still can't put into words how much I hate that book and why. Suffice to say it had no plot and no explanation for the situation, despicable characters and gratuitous shock-value scenes, and page after page of blatant, ham-fisted, sledgehammer-subtle attempts at emotional manipulation. I forced myself to finish it, hoping that there would be some payoff at the end, some explanation for all that happened, something to make their grocery-cart-pushing quest across post-apolcalypse America meaningful and worthwhile. Imagine my disappointment when the father gets killed pointlessly at the last minute before rescue, leaving the little boy, who repeatedly deserved to die himself, to be taken in by an enclave of survivors, apparently unfazed by everything that's happened to him and the world around him. I should have known better. It boasted an Oprah Book Club recommendation [i]right on the cover.[/i] [/QUOTE]

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