reading The Road until something happy happens:

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[HaroldTheBad]

It would've been a happier book if Judge Holden was in it.

[connorhealy]

Man Carrying the Imperceptibly Heavy Burden of Hope in The Last Flicker of Humanity

[Tyc]

what a great ad to make me read the book

he can't keep getting away with this

[joerobins]

I've never experienced a book that made me feel an actual physical sensation before. The Road legitimately made me feel cold as I read it. Amazing book. I'm never reading it again.

[oneinathousand]

I’m literally on my way to buy this book from a store as I write this (I’m not the one driving), I can’t wait to find out what joyous shenanigans the father and son get into on the road ;)

[rotmuscaria]

I outright cackled.
I had a class once where that book was part of the suggested reading, only for the professor to say "Don't get me wrong, it's very good, but don't read it if you're in a delicate state of mind."
And, being the beautiful crystal glass that I am, I have resolved to never read it. Thanks for the heads up prof!

[becauseican]

Reading Three Musketeers until someone says M'lady

[Chikaras]

The Road is a fantastic book and the movie adaptation was great as well, though it does remove some of the freakiest details.

Also love the fact that while filming around Pittsburgh, Viggo Mortensen kept getting kicked out of restaurants because he was in costume and they thought he was actually homeless.

[thecalmbro]

Im not saying this to sound contrarian but I know it comes off that way:

The road is a weirdly peaceful and meditative book, to me at least.
I love how it's not very plot heavy and mostly just about the day to day mundane trudging through a cold, dead, empty world punctuated by occasional brief encounters where people don't really know how to talk or how to behave because human contact is so infrequent. And the simplicity with which the father and son interact and talk. It's all very simple and straightforward but weirdly beautiful and touching at the same time. I don't know why but there's something almost relaxing about how dour this book is? Somethings wrong with me probably?

I also just so happened to have finished the road today of all days so I'm pretty sure man carrying thing is watching me not sure how to feel about that.

[Liam_McGovern]

I was half expecting this to just be multiple hours of you silently reading

[caravanlifenz]

As a person who grew up in a broken home where our mother left us when we were kids and our father told us he didn't want us any longer, I will look forward to reading this happy family tale about a father and son, as I know it will brighten my day and outlook on life 🥰

[ZayJayPlays]

I think this is the only book challenge you've done where I've actually read the book.

[somewhatokperson]

As someone who doesn't read books, i can only assume that the book must have a very light tone to it and is not sad

[thebatman]

So sweet of McCarthy to dedicate this book to his son! I wonder how caring the characters in this book are with children😊😊😊

[ecta]

It’s worth reading twice. The first read for me was like watching a car wreck - I couldn’t look away because I was so drawn to the terrible things happening on the page. The second time through I knew what to expect there and the theme of hope was way brighter and more apparent. Definitely worth a reread imo - might even have been written to be reread.

[KiraLawliet]

They say Man could Carry Anything...

...but he couldn't carry the painful truth.

[andeve]

reading The Road until someone sees for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

[evanorsomething]

Reading Child of God until something grotesque happens

[glads-bwhe]

It's like one of those challenges videos on a game where the youtuber replaces every mob in the game with a boss or anything that sounds intriguing and genuinely interesting until he finds a bug where the boss's hitbox is too big so they all die because they're out of bounds and the challenge becomes too much easy so you end up disappointed

[Anonymous-ccvh]

I just started reading 'Butcher's Crossing' because of you. Thank you? There is a question mark at the end of that last sentence for a reason.