I just finished reading "The Road" and would like to know if anyone would like me to send it to them to read? If you PM your address I will drop it in the mail this week.

 

About the book:

Description: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

I just finished reading "The Road" and would like to know if anyone would like me to send it to them to read? If you PM your address I will drop it in the mail this week.

 

About the book:

Description: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

 

I watched the movie a week or so ago. It was ok albeit rather bleak. I understand that the guys who made Fallout 3 were influenced by the book.

 

It was interesting that the reason for the devastation was never specifically noted in the movie. There were some bright flashes, but those could have been meteors or comets. Radiation was never noted and radiation doesn't affect plants so much so that couldn't explain much about the trees.

 

Watching that movie sort of led me into a post-apoc movie kick. I recently watched "No blade of grass", "Panic in the year Zero" and re-watched an old fascinating movie "The Quiet Earth".

 

I know I'm dragging this thread far afield, but I'll also note that "Threads" and "Testament" are interesting post apoc movies.

 

As far as books go, if you are into this sort of thing, I can _HIGHLY_ recommend, "Dies the Fire" by S.M. Sterling. AWESOME. The problem is, the next book is good, but the third book was leading towards something I didn't want to see happen so I stopped reading it. It was still good, but like the movie Misery, I didn't want someone to die, so I didn't read it. LOL.

 

Also, for some heavier sci/fantasy, the Word and Void series from Terry Brooks are quite enjoyable.

 

I don't have The Road, and although I am an avid reader someone else should probably go ahead and get it. I'll likely just pick it up when we do our next Borders trip. We tend to do 15 or so books at a time.

http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php

 

Its a good read, though I was sort of surprised that Hollywood decided to do a movie (probably was hoping for the same type of success from McCarthy's other lit-turned-film "No Country for Old Men," and the recent apoc/post-apoc craze). The movie was well done, and it didn't really ruin aspects of the book... though that could be why the movie was such a bore. But to note, I enjoy stories that do not necessarily re-write/speculate on WHY/WHAT led to this post-apoc situation... but instead focuses on the actual story... if I needed the overly-blown visual speculation, I would just waste my money on 2012 (which I did). I recommend the read, and actually anything by Cormac McCarthy.