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Instead of sensing an “aftertaste of tired irony,” I was deeply affected by Roth’s novel and have reflected on it for years after my first reading. Coincidently, I began to read McCarthy’s “The Road?? and never finished it; however, I would never write a review without completing it. Give “American Pastoral” a chance and don’t be so lazy...
While “The Ghost Inside” demonstrates how Mercer’s voice merges with Burton’s aesthetic, opener “The High Road?? slips back and forth between two respective worlds, sounding more like The Shins as imagined by Danger Mouse then a project of its own. The song finds Mercer’s piercing voice singing a refrain with just the right amount of poeticism—“Cause they know and so do I / The high road is hard to find”—over...
...contrast to “American Pastoral,” Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road?? has room for love, purpose, and human heroism despite being set in a post-apocalyptic world. “The Road?? centers on a father and son who try to survive while traveling through a ravaged American landscape that has been destroyed by some unspecified disaster. Both the inner and outer lives of the father and son are essential to the novel’s message. The external scenes where the pair hide from...
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road?? is one of the few recent novels that has achieved commercial as well as critical success. Given McCarthy’s elegant minimalist style and simple, episodic plot, I wondered how this post-apocalyptic novel was capable of capturing the national imagination. It was only after attempting to read Philip Roth’s 1997 novel “American Pastoral,” however, that the merits of “The Road?? became apparent. One can learn important things from a novel without even...
...Road?? is a flawed film but a great one, brutally affecting and finally, unexpectedly, uplifting. It crystallizes our greatest fears about our own capabilities into a truly original and discomfiting vision of the world, and it very nearly does McCarthy’s book justice. Viewers may leave the theater not entirely sure what they just witnessed, but “The Road?? will stick with them, as will the pressing questions it poses...