Comments on: An Alternate Ending to The Road by Cormac McCarthy

By: scriken

scriken — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:19:36 +0000

thanks for your input. this was written pretty quickly for an english assignment, so i know it’s not the best thing ever written. when i have more time i may go back to it, but i’m not sure. thanks for the comment regardless : )

By: mike

mike — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:01:02 +0000

it was ok. absolutely not amazing. absolutely not beautifully written. but it was ok. firstly, the man living for that long doesnt make too much sense, although who am i to be saying it’s unrealistic in a book about the apocolypse. and i can tell your language is trying to be like mccarthy’s in some places, but there is too much explanation. i feel like if the dropping the gun/ failing the man bit had been in the actual book before the people found him it would be cool, although that means that the father was a failure throughout the book, as his primary motivation was to prepare the boy to live on after he himself had died. not bad. not great. good idea

By: scriken

scriken — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:03:13 +0000

thank you so much! : )

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:43:05 +0000

This was an amazing alternate ending. Although it’s still depressing…I absolutely loved how it was written. Your so talented, i was searching for a happy alternate ending. But this is a good ending nonetheless.

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:41:42 +0000

This was amazing. I absolutely loved it. It’s written so beautifully. Your talented!