You should read House of Leaves

Just remember, human meat taste like pork and the best is babies(Snowpiercer).

Waterfall is in the book bro.

I would kill myself in the world of The Road

Something important to touch on. In the book, the woman and the man really have gone at great lengths debating their fates, life and death. In the end the woman can't do it anymore knowing that it'll only end with them murdered and r@ped. He knows he can't convince her anymore and in the end just asks that she waits a bit more and say goodbye to their son. She can't go do it and kills herself. Later, the boy asks about his mom and the man tells her she's gone.

It seems you are underestimating the impact you are making with this great review. Keep it up and regards from Florence, Italy

Here I am commenting 3 years after upload, but I gotta say I disagree with with your thoughts about the score. I thought it was some of the most moving music possible for the story. I couldn't imagine a better set of tracks for the movie. Especially "The Mother." It is heart wrenching and brutal.

Personally I think it’s a bit overwritten.Have you read Tristram Shandy by Sterne?

Where are you king? 😢

I think the movie did the job of telling the story well, while I would have preferred more length I think we are lucky. It could have been a lot worse,

cormac epic may be a prophesy/? armageddon is very much talked about cuurrently. ie the militias, a president promoting violence, the propaganda that who has the bigger arms will survive/ idiocy promoted by the cuurent republican politics , A GROUP THAT IS A tthreat to organized humanity as we know it. paranoia runs rampant in the white lowerr classes, encouraged by the pychopath trump and his cohorts.

I’ll be digesting this book for the rest of my life. It’s basically a not very practical joke on the reader.

All setup, no payoff.

What baffles me is that people look at this book, see how poorly written it is, and go "I'm up for a challenge."

i loved this book <3

Completely agree 🙏

Honestly good movie, but disagree with you heavily about Nick Cave and Warren Ellis soundtrack, in fact I played it while re-reading the book, I felt like it added to it

Have you never heard of Nick Cave? Do you live under a rock?

I really liked the video and unrelated but I love your face too!!!!

The waterfall scene was in the book. The music was good and Nick Cave is a well known musician/singer (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds).

If you need to beat a drug test all the info is here, not to mention a million laughs.

I always thought that Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter were excellent movie adaptations.

The kid got to me when his dad got shot in the leg then he goes all “paapaa!”Mode like cmon kid there killing your dad! 😂

There is a line of dialogue from a party Joelle attended that convinced me into treating plot with minimum attendance(I mean that after I've read the whole thing ofcourse, as in to stop spending time trying to figure out who sent cartridges where and who ate what): - way it can be film qua film. Comstock says if it even exists it has to be something more like an aesthetic pharmaceutical. Some beastly post-annular scopophiliacal vector. Suprasubliminals and that. Some kind of abstractable hypnosis, an optical dopamine-cue. A recorded delusion. Duquette says he's lost contact with three colleagues. He said a good bit of Berkeley isn't answering their phone.’ Here, some random guy at a party is obviously describing the Entertainment's properties. He states that its so compelling because of techniques it was created with. I think Wallace tried to do similar things with the book itself, plant a feeling that the plot is going somewhere, that you will understand it eventually if you be attentive. Just exactly the feeling that will help you stick to the end of the book, ofcourse not as ultimately compelling as it's fictional counterpart, but it led me to think that the plot is ONLY there to give you that sense using cues on cues on cues that never come to sort of finality.

can you give us the secondary sources, like the podcasts, etc.

You know, I also thought it was kind of cringe when she wrote out. Oh that’s mom downstairs but when you think about the fact the letters are a coping mechanism for the fact that her sister won’t answer her calls I think it’s kind of interesting that she decides to write the letters in a tone that’s like as if they were speaking on the phone like she’s trying to create an imagined closeness in the writing style but I feel like also she’s making a little time capsule at the moment that resistor might be missing out on, so I didn’t hate it in that interpretation

thanks so much this video is just what i needed to help with my homework

this video owns

helped me prepare so much for my literature class exam, thank you for the well thought out ideas and covering concepts!

I've been reading this book for about two months now and I'm only about 150 pages into it. You are so on point when you said it feels like short stories. I absolutely love that about this book. I have read other books since I've started this. I adore the chapters as they do feel like essays. Wallace's writing style... I love it. Your explanation of the book tells me that I am not crazy. That this is exactly how the book was supposed to be.

The ending was open ended though right?

Another similarity is the age difference between the two lovers, one is older and more experienced with life, the other younger and idealistic. And didn't both love stories started in a summer as well? I don't think it's homophobic to compare to CMBYN b/c CMBYN was clearly a very popular book that was made into a major film, so the publisher probably wanted to cash in on that. But I do agree that it's a bit reductive, but what ya gonna do?

My main gripe with the movie is the relationship between the man and the boy. In the movie the man almost seems annoyed with the boy. Someone he saddled with. In the book it's clear how much the man loves him and would do anything to protect him. He's patient with him almost to a fault. The boy in the book acts much younger and is constantly whining about how scared he is. Being on the road for that long, I don't think that the boy would still be constantly voicing it. I agree, the sickness is downplayed.

Will buy the book now because of your review 🎉🎉🎉

Seriously seriously thank you for this. I chose this book as the main topic in my English A Levels and this was so so helpful! Literally everything you‘ve said is what I thought too while comparing the movie and the book. Thank you for this! That was great for revising the plot a little bit! :)

thanks for this video; i read this book OVER AND OVER when it came out lol but now it's just an old obsession. i still love it and it's def soooooo influential ❤ also the structure almost mimes the video.. one could just become hypnotized by it and read it in a loop forever

I have to read this book because it was assigned my my english professor.

I am so sick of basically every MLM/Gay novel being compared to "Call Me by Your Name" like we get it article writers, you've never actually branched out and read other mlm novels

Saved this video months ago for when I finished reading it. The most unexpected ending maybe ever? I'd been spoiled on them digging Himself's corpse and was expectant of it until I realized it happened on the 17th page of the book. I really gotta read it again now

this SLAPS!!!!

2:25 😍

The kid saying "Papa!!" repetitively at nauseum.....ugg.

100% agree, eragon was THE WORST adaptation. Also this is the 2nd review of the road book vs movie and still no mention of the thumbless men.

I agree on everything you said. In my case, I still liked the books because I was interested in learning about Asian religion and philosophy, I know it's not the best way but it's a start 😅

Every time I come back to booktube I start with your videos 😂 glad to see you posted recently 😆

I can’t help but see the book as “the original” so I love it when a film artfully captures that. I understand that all content can’t be represented for a multitude of reasons and condensation must occur. No County for Old Men is a good example of film honoring the book very well. It’s what I love to see. I will say that I have enjoyed many films made from books and put aside the creative differences. Most often I will read a book before watching the film as the “original” is always my standard.

I recall a waterfall in the book.

I always liked Dune for just the exactly the characters fallibility and imperfections. Just to use your example, yes, Paul keeps Duncan around. Paul is the supreme mentat. Yet he’s also emotional and wants his friend nearby, even if his friend isn’t exactly his friend anymore. Whatever. You got the point of the books. They just weren’t your taste. That’s fine. However, I wouldn’t recommend that you bother with the rest of the books. It doesn’t get much better. And saying the fourth book God Emperor is the best is laughable! It’s ridiculously slow. Just Leto as a half man half worm doing very little. Whoever told you that’s the best book is trolling you.

Other analysis claims Infinite Jest is to be read in context of Shakespeare's Hamlet. It's one thing to be observing. It's another to have a possible solution or consequence articulated.

Read Pynchon!