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Tried reading The Road on a job site and it wrecked me for two weeks
I was working a solo job rewiring a basement in Aurora a few months back and decided to throw Cormac McCarthy's The Road into my lunch bag. I figured it would be some gritty survival story to kill time between pulling wire. Man was I wrong. I got to the part where the father finds the old man in the woods and just sat there with a half eaten sandwich staring at a wall. That book hit me different because it stripped everything down to just being a parent trying to protect your kid. I finished it in three days of breaks and cried in my van twice. Has anyone else here had a book sneak up on them when you were totally not ready for it emotionally?
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ivanb414d ago
Man that bit about sitting with a half eaten sandwich staring at a wall really hit home. I had the same thing happen with A Little Life - I was reading it on my lunch break at a hardware store and had to close my locker and just walk outside for ten minutes because I couldn't handle the heaviness. The Road got me too, especially the part where the father keeps repeating "my job is to take care of you" like a mantra while everything is falling apart, it's the kind of thing that sticks in your head long after you put the book down.
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lucas_price834d ago
Yo @ivanb41 that Road line is brutal, like he's trying to convince himself as much as the kid right? Crazy how those little details just bury themselves in your brain and won't leave.
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