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Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the written word, not only bringing horror to new heights, but trying his hand at nearly every possible genre, including children's books, graphic novels, serial novels, literary fiction, nonfiction, westerns, fantasy, and even e-books (remember The Plant?). With Lisey's Story, once again King is trying something different. Lisey's Story is as much a romance as it is a supernatural thriller--but don't let us convince you. Who better to tell readers if King has written a romantic thriller than Dennis Lehane? We asked Nora to read Lisey's Story and give us her take. Check out her review below. --Daphne Durham

Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his series about private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, wowed readers with the intense and gut-wrenching Mystic River, blew fans all away with the mind-bending Shutter Island, and switches gears with Coronado, his new collection of gritty short stories (and one play).

Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. --Dennis Lehane

AUTHOR: Cormac McCarthy

CATEGORY: Book

MANUFACTURER: Vintage Books

ISBN: 0307387895

TYPE: Literary, Fiction / Literary, Fathers and sons, Survival skills, Robinsonades, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction - Adventure, Fiction, Fiction - General

MEDIA: Paperback

# OF MEDIA: 1

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Customer Review of The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
An Average Read
Yes, it was fully of stark, horrifying imagery. Yes, it was about love, and being a parent, and trying to protect innocence where it's nearly impossible to do so. But, I found it a boring read, predictable, and only completed it out of an obligation to myself to do so. I did not like the style of prose, and found it very cold. The story stayed with me for a few day, but so do other books, songs, and movies. <
>Very average.

Am I missing something?
This is hyped as a masterpiece yet I don't see why. Is it the writing style? There is no plot, no climax. Only character development (and rather surface at best) as we enter the lives of a father and son on the road after an apocolyptic event (which is never explained), follow them for a few months, then end as the father dies and the son goes to live with the only "good people" they encounter. <
>Pass.

Something weird
I enjoyed this read, although I don't know if it's all that original. The theme of the post-apocalyptic world has been covered before.. There are many fine writers who have explored these themes--many under the unfortunate label of `Sci-Fi'(Heinlin, Bradbury, Phil K. Dick) --when, certainly,at the time, their works were rather visionary, especially pre-dating our techno world. (Many of these authors being older than this one, even). But I liked this novel. I liked the sense of what are we to do with all the techno-knowledge and massive destructive capabilities that we have. We are in the 21st century--we are in the very world of what many authors envisioned some fifty years. So now what do we do? Are we cultivating for the good or are we going to blow it? <
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>Do we get the warning here? <
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>So the prose might seem simplistic, but I believe that's deliberate. And the point is still very much intact, anyway. To me, the test of a good read is the kind of lingering impresssion I am left with once I am done. I had this sense here with THE ROAD, but also with some others, most recently, LIFE OF PI, and the little known, SIM0N LAZARUS, each a different kind of quest.

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