The Road

Title: The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Pages: 304

(NON-SPOILER INFO)
A man and his son travel along the road in a post apocalyptic world.

(SPOILER INFO)
Something bad has happened to the world. The trees and buildings have burned, all the animals have died, and the world is covered in gray and ash. Into this world a young boy is born. Shortly after he is born, his mother commits suicide, leaving her husband, the boy’s father to care for him. This is the story of how the boy and the man try to travel to the coast where they hope it will be warmer. Along the way they must protect themselves from human cannibals, they must find food, water, and shelter, and they must figure out a way to survive and hold onto their humanity. My favorite episode along the road is when they stumble across an underground bunker that is fully stocked and it is the first real hope for the man and the boy. But such episodes are few and far between, as I'm sure they would be in real life. Maybe this book was just to real for me. It left me feeling depressed and hungry for more story. So....

(VERDICT)
I give it 2 out of 5 stars. I think it will make a better movie than a book.