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49 Reddit comments about The Road:

u/danetrain05 · 17 pointsr/booksuggestions

The Road has always been recommended to me. It's about a father and son who are travelling to the coast but they don't know what to expect when they arrive. It's about their journey through a burned American landscape while dealing with bandits and the like.

u/CantRememberMyUserID · 14 pointsr/tipofmytongue

Cormac McCarthy's The Road

u/ItIsBack · 13 pointsr/movies

The Road(2009) is one of the best dystopian movies i have ever seen. A father and son journey in a post apocalyptic world. the movie was adopted from a book under the same title, it is definitely one of the best movie adaptations ever made IMHO.

u/dave9199 · 11 pointsr/preppers

u/TrustworthyAndroid · 10 pointsr/Games

Pretty sure that it's going to be implied that these desparate humans will probably just murder and eat you and kidnap your daughter. People during the apocoalypse are not friendly folk.

I suggest you go and look up "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy it seems to have been a huge inspiration for this game.

u/pantsoff · 10 pointsr/worldnews

The Road. Watch it (better yet, read it), get depressed and realize that it (or similar) could very well end up being a reality in the not too distant future for a myriad of reasons.

u/disanthropologist · 9 pointsr/books

[The Road] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307387895/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0307265439&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1SX7Y4HZP0E5X3D4H2YK) by Cormac McCarthy. I usually love dystopian/apocalyptic fiction, but I couldn't finish reading it because it was so disturbing.

u/cH3x · 8 pointsr/preppers

Lights Out by David Crawford
Going Home by A. American (and the whole Survivalist series that follows)
Patriots by James Wesley, Rawles
Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
The Postman by David Brin
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Breakers by Edward W. Robertson (and the rest of the series; good deals on Kindle bundles)

u/well_uh_yeah · 7 pointsr/books

Sort of off the top of my head:

Not Supernatural:

The Road
Lord of the Flies
One Second After

Supernatural:
World War Z
I am Legend
Robopocalypse

Often times books about survival don't need to be fiction to be amazingly interesting, so I'll add these:
Unbroken
Escape from Camp 14

u/omaca · 6 pointsr/books

The Road by Cormac McCarthy or The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

I'd post pics of the covers, but I'd probably be lynched. :)

u/mcjergal · 5 pointsr/books

If you're into war novels, you should definitely check out All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It's hands down my favorite war-related book. And if you're into post-apocalyptic stuff, the easy answer is The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

u/strolls · 4 pointsr/me_irl

Don't read The Road, whatever you do.

u/I_pee_in_coke · 4 pointsr/AskReddit

No, but The Road came very close.

u/[deleted] · 4 pointsr/suggestmeabook

I would suggest The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I was left jarred by the ending. Great Dysto book

u/Agyriac · 3 pointsr/Fantasy

Hi OP! Hope that everything's alright with you. I resonated deeply with Worm and Taylor's struggle during a hard period in my life. Here are some stories from that time in my life that I think might be interesting for you:

The Road (novel) - "A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark." Honestly one of the most depressing things I've ever read. The entire time it feels like the father's struggling against impossible odds, and this story doesn't pull its punches at all.

Human Moments in World War III (free short story) - this story is about people drifting from their humanity as they pilot a weaponized space station in orbit. The writing style is very distant, which I think is appropriate for the theme of dissociation vs. brief moments of genuine connection that runs throughout this work.

Chrysalis (free webnovel) - about a human-built AI and its war of vengeance for the burnt-out remains of Earth. The AI's internal struggle in resolving its hurt with its anger and drive for justice is a big part of this story.

Malak (free short story) - another AI story. This one's about an experimental US military drone in the Middle East struggling to figure out its code-imposed morality. A reconstruction of a lot of rationalist tropes that's ultimately hopeful. (Or at least I think so.)

Gonna Reach Out and Grab Ya (short story that's free on Google Books) - a depressed and overworked surgeon finds a corpse from the future. One of those bright-moments-in-a-shitty-life stories.

Dredging Up Memories (novel) - a story about a man trying to find his family in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. Everyone's dead, so he has to deal with his crumbling psyche on his own even as he kills the undead. This one's really beautifully written, and such a poignant illustration of struggling through mental illness.

u/RruinerR · 3 pointsr/booksuggestions

There are two books specifically about the Metro series.
http://www.amazon.com/Metro-2033-English-Dmitry-Glukhovsky/dp/1481845705

http://www.amazon.com/Metro-2034-Dmitry-Glukhovsky/dp/1473204305/

Also, try out The Road by Cormac McCarthy http://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895/

u/Silidistani · 3 pointsr/worldnews

Try the book it's from - Pulitzer winner for 2007.

Strangely, as terribly bleak and harsh as it is, it is uplifting yet still when taken as a whole. They carry the fire still.

u/wgg88 · 3 pointsr/PostCollapse

Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection
Don Roff, Chris Lane

Day by Day Armageddon
J. L. Bourne

Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
J. L. Bourne

Earth Abides
George R. Stewart

Swan Song
Robert McCammon

The Road
Cormac McCarthy

edit: This covers a good array of subjects on different ways the world might perish. All fiction also.

u/fivefoottwelve · 3 pointsr/literature

I'm noticing more and more sci-fi elements in "serious" classical-style fiction. Here are some examples:

Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss has memory downloading and uploading.
Cormac McCarthy's The Road is straight-up post-apocalyptic sci-fi.
Jose Saramago's Blindness has everyone in a city in Spain--and presumably everywhere else since no one comes to help--go blind, one by one. More plague/apocalypse fiction.

Earlier, user xmashamm wrote:
> If you set out to write a badass sci fi story, it's going to be bad. If you set out to write a deeply human story, and it happens to be set in space, you're probably on to something.

In all of the examples I gave, the sci-fi element itself is peripheral to the story of the people involved. There is little or no time devoted to explaining how the sci-fi element came about or how it works. In all three examples, the characters are three-dimensional[1] and the prose is top-notch. Blindness won the 1998 Nobel Prize for literature. So I do think the line is melting. I think that now it's more of a continuum, with placement depending on how much time is devoted to talking about the science and technology itself. I'd place Larry Niven's stuff waaaay on the sci-fi end, and the three authors above much farther toward the classical end.

The funny thing about this use of sci-fi elements by classical-style authors is that these skillful writers sometimes make rookie science mistakes that their core audiences don't seem to be bothered by. My biology training made me find the premise of The Road internally inconsistent and largely unbelievable, for example.

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[1] Possible exception of the one by Nicole Krauss, who doesn't write male characters well.

u/420_Towelie · 3 pointsr/dayz

And if you want to get the DayZ-Lonewolf-feeling, read (or watch) The Road

u/CampBenCh · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

I just read The Road and it was pretty good. Would make a great movie.

u/flamingerrol · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Amazing author. Amazing book.
This is a hysterical review though... http://www.amazon.com/Road-Oprahs-Book-Club/product-reviews/0307387895/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=0&amp;filterBy=addOneStar

u/PBJLNGSN · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Okay! Sure it's this one! I'm right above you! :P Have you by chance heard of the band The Classic Crime? Or Vocal Few?

u/ponytron5000 · 2 pointsr/MLPLounge

I've never been able to pick a best anything, but here are a few of my favorites where "respectable literature" is concerned:

The Bone People by Keri Hulme -- be warned: it does contain some serious child abuse. Not everyone appreciates the way that situation is resolved, either. Speaking of resolution, if you can't stand loose ends and unresolved mysteries, you're probably going to want to avoid this one. I've heard that Te Kaihau fills in some of the blanks, but good luck finding it at all. If you do, it will be very expensive.
Blindess by Jose Saramago -- Absolutely brilliant. That said, while the book is ultimately uplifting, parts of it are pretty bleak and brutal. Also be aware that Saramago's narrative convention in this novel is deliberately disorienting in several ways. I thought it was put to very good use, but some people will find that kind of thing annoying regardless.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Holy shit, this book is soul-crushingly bleak, depressing, and brutal from start to finish. It's also fantastic.

u/mattymillhouse · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

World War Z, by Max Brooks

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller

I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson -- fair warning: it's actually more of a short story/novelette. But even if you've seen the Will Smith movie, the book is different (and, in my opinion, better) so you'll still want to read this one.

The Last Policeman, by Ben Winters -- sort of fits. It's not exactly post-apocalyptic. It's more pre-apocalyptic. It's a sort of noir detective novel, except the government has announced that an asteroid is going to collide with the earth, probably ending life as we know it. So it's kind of a murder mystery while the world breaks down around the hero. The first book in this trilogy won an Edgar Award in 2013 for Best Paperback Original.

Parasites Like Us, by Adam Johnson -- This one's more light-hearted. The hero is a 2nd rate anthropologist working at a 2nd rate university. He illegally conducts a dig at the site of an early American settlement, and gets thrown in jail. Turns out that the dig unleashed a virus that threatens to wipe out civilization. It focuses more on the human elements of the story -- life, love, etc. -- and less on the apocalypse, and it's filled with dark humor and satire.

u/Tom_N_Haverford · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/The-Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895

u/PicaRuler · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

I had a bunch of friends recommend The Road by Cormac McCarthy. They described reading it as an almost religious experience. I had people tell me that it gave them hope for humanity etc. So I kind of approached it with that in mind.

I started it and got hooked, finished it in one sitting, but it was a different kind of fixation for me. It was super depressing; I couldn't clear the mental images out of my head. I kept thinking to myself, "it could really end like this" and I just dwelled on that. I thought about what would become of my family and friends in an end of days situation like the one described in the book. I walked around in a dark stupor for days. My wife and my coworkers kept asking me what was wrong and trying to find out what my problem was. It just fucked me up. Its one of the only books I have ever read that I have simultaneously hated and thought was a good book.

u/shamelessIceT · 2 pointsr/boardgames

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895

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terminator blu ray

walking dead comic

u/bigbeautifulbastard · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

i would throw cormac mccarthy's name into your selection, too. both "the road" and "no country for old men" are great introductions to his style. If you get a taste for his writing, definitely pick up "blood meridian." it's my favorite work of his. he's got a good sized catalog of 10 books if you get a taste for his style.

u/foreverxcursed · 2 pointsr/ProjectMilSim

Are you looking for pulse pounding, believable-but-still-inventive enough, hardcore mercenary action? Well look no further.

Direct Action - Written by a former Ranger/SF guy, this is the first in a set of (so far) 3 books featuring Deckard as the main character. Deckard is a former SF and CIA SAD guy who ends up getting contracted by a shady cabal to form a PMC for them to use in their attempt to bring about a NWO. He says "fuck that." This is honestly some of the best in the genre of military fiction. Written by a dude who has been there and done that, it's well written and believable enough, and the action...gritty, hardcore, doorkicking, operating action. It does not stop once it starts, and neither do the sequels, Target Deck and Direct Action. They're a blast to read and I can't recommend them enough.

Task Force Desperate - America's dollar has collapsed. The military is incredibly underfunded and no longer has the ability to project power. This all comes to a head when an American military base in Djibouti is attacked and taken over. With the US no longer able to respond to events such as these, Jeff's PMC, Praetorians, are contracted to handle the situation. The guy that wrote it is a former Recon Marine, so similar to Jack Murphy, he's been there, done that, and it shows. If you want hardcore action, this is another solid book for you. The plot is a bit out there, but hey, fuck it, it's fun.

Moving away from fiction...

Level Zero Heroes - Written by one of the first MARSOC dudes that went into Afghanistan when MARSOC was first stood up. He's his MSOC's forward air controller, and it's just a pretty cool and interesting look into the special operations world from a new (at the time) SOF unit.

Horse Soldiers - About the first ODA that went into Afghanistan within weeks of 9/11. They worked really closely with CIA SAD, and it's an incredibly interesting write up on what these guys managed to do in incredibly austere conditions. They rolled around the country on horseback. That's bad ass.

First In - Similar to Horse Soldiers, but written by one of the CIA paramilitary officers that coordinated with the Northern Alliance and the SF ODAs when they first came in country. A bit dry, but if you're interested in this sort of thing, it's one of the best (and only, from its perspective) accounts of the early parts of the Global War On Terror.

Now for some non military stuff.

Dune - The best sci-fi novel ever written, bar none. It has political intrigue, an oppressed people against an overwhelmingly larger force, oh, and giant sandworms. It's hard to describe just how rich the world of Dune is in a simple paragraph, so I won't even try. If you're into sci-fi and you haven't read Dune, you owe it to yourself. You're in for a treat.

The Road - The bleakest thing I've ever read. It takes place after some type of apocalyptic event in the US (which is never detailed), and is the story of a father and his young son attempting to survive in the wasteland amongst cannibals that keep their "livestock," chained in a basement, roving bands of marauders, and other horrors. It's written in an incredibly minimalist style which adds to the tone and atmosphere so much. If you want something heavy, this is your book.

I'll probably add more but here are my recommendations for now.

u/sarj5287 · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

If I had this then I could read it, and I've been told it's a wonderful book. If I were a book, I hope that I'd be a great one.

u/ChronicRhinitis · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

This seems like a good one. Here's an amazon link if anyone is interested.

u/imalittlepiggy · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Oh that's awesome! I wanna see both of those so bad! I loved Despicable Me, it was so cute and such a fun concept anyways! I also watch a lot of superhero and fantasy adventure stuff, but only in the past few years have been getting into scifi/fantasy and it's been so great, I don't know why I let myself miss out on so much gold! My favorites are Total Recall and The 5th Element. I even hadn't seen it when I had hair just like Leeloo's! *Doh!! :)

I'd recommend the GoT books if you ever want a good series or just something to take up a lot of time. It's far more interesting than the tv series can even begin to cover! But I'm not huge into reading that type of stuff so it's been a bit of challenge for me too. Definitely not for the faint of heart hehe. And the 3rd season is just... INSANE. BUT SO GOOD. I never thought I'd get super into GoT like I have been, especially after I saw the first season, but...ohmigosh I kinda freak about it now, haha!! There's a website that has pretty good quality collections of shows for streaming, just google project free tv, it should be fairly obvious which link it is, and they have all the GoT seasons on there and you don't have to do the risky torrenting. Although you sound pretty busy so I'm sure you might not even have time for more tv, hehe!

The Road is actually a 2006 novel, you're correct, I think my friends just qualified it as a "classic" because they were super into the genre when it came out, and I even had a few friends say they read it in school, so perhaps it'll be one for the "newer classics" haha.

Also, I absolutely adore that you like the videogames movies, Mortal Kombat and SMB are great, haha! I didn't realize they had made a DnD movie though!!! Is it actually good!?!?!!! <insert mindblown.gif here>

And yeah I love Bastion!! It's so pretty yet so fun and I can only WISH someone followed me around to narrate my life in the awesome way Rukus does it!! :D

u/netruassin · 1 pointr/thelastofus

book; movie

u/ggroverggiraffe · 1 pointr/worldnews

I really enjoyed it. Post-apocalyptic fiction but felt a lot more realistic. It’s not zombies or mad max, it’s just about a man and his kid trying to survive. Try a chapter or two...
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895

u/SedendoetQuiescendo · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

The Road by Cormac McCarthy!

u/juniperapolo · 1 pointr/bookexchange

I am interested in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and any apocalyptic books you may have.

Here are the apocalyptic books that I have remember having on my shelf.
[The Eleventh Plague](http://www.amazon.com/The-Eleventh-Plague-Jeff-Hirsch/dp/0545290155
/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345558472&sr=8-1&keywords=eleventh+plague)

The Compound

Children of Men

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The Road

u/elwood2cool · 1 pointr/ifyoulikeblank

The Fuckup by Arthur Nersesian;

The Road by Cormac McCarthy;

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

The Essays of David Foster Wallace, especially his social commentary

u/meelakie · 1 pointr/worldnews

I've been to a number of climatology scientific conferences and a decade ago the general feeling was, we've gone from being able to do anything to now we're just documenting the collapse.

I keep telling my non-scientific friends and family that the reason they don't hear the real story on commercial news is that it's...commercial. They're selling advertising minutes not truth. If people get scared, they'll stop consuming at their current rate.

Perhaps the most tellingly scary thing for me has been the utter rejection and denial of the situation from people I know who I thought were rational and science-minded. They want to cover their ears and LALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU....

And we can lay all the blame on capitalism and human greed. The scientific community (and fossil fuel companies, in particular) knew about this in the 1970s and did nothing because of profit$.

Cormac McCarthy is going to look like a prophet for writing The Road.

u/MercenaryOfTroy · 1 pointr/gaming

This is from The Road. It is a sub par movie about an AMAZING book that takes place after the apocalypse of a man and his son trying to survive. The book is less than 300 pages with largeish font and is less than $10 on Amazon. You all should read it.

u/newborn · 1 pointr/science

If you're concerned about how to prepare for the future... here's your new bible and survival guide: The Road.

u/danger_one · 1 pointr/AskReddit

This, this, or this probably. If that worries you, head over to r/collapse.

u/electric_oven · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

"The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller and "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy are both part of the modern canon, IMO.

u/trustifarian · 1 pointr/Fallout

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Earth Abides by George Stewart

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

Z for Zachariah Robert O'Brien

Deathlands series 116 books so far.

The Last Ranger by Craig Sargent. "Good" is debatable

The Road Cormac McCarthy

The Postman David Brin

The End is Nigh Ed. by John Joseph Adams. This just came out.

u/EdgeOfVision · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

The Road. It's such an engaging read, not the best thing I've ever read but definitely one of the most captivating, a real page turner. It's hard to put it down before you finish it.

u/what_the_heil · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Note to self: don't read sad books while you're on an airplane.

If you haven't read The Road, you definitely should! It's about a father and son coping with the aftermath of the end of the world.

u/aedusxerxes · 1 pointr/Philippines

:P

Sorry, ang malilibre ko sayo ay eto. I could not care less if it costs more than twice that of a Mortal Instruments or Kirsten White or Maggie Stiefvater or Roshani Chokshi book, eto lang kaya kong bilhin. :D

u/dispatcher_83 · 0 pointsr/AskReddit

site book

u/This-is-Peppermint · 0 pointsr/suggestmeabook

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I read it in a single day (into the night) because I couldn't put it down. http://www.amazon.com/The-Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1405051311&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+road

It's been awarded many many awards, so you don't just have to take some random redditor's word for its greatness. It's an easy read, too, so even if you don't love it you can get through it and get it over with quickly.