The Road

I read this back at the end of April first of May. I wanted to have it with me when I posted but it wasn't that amazing. I was in the book store and I wanted to find a book that I'd never heard of, meaning no movie, not a well known author, totally abscure. I grabbed the road and admit I was foolishly swain by the Pulitzer Prize mumbo jumbo on the top of the book. Yet despite my best efforts after I finished the book I read in the back that the author wrote, All the Pretty Horses (Movie staring Matt Damon and Penolope Cruz), and No Country For Old Men (the Cohen Bros Best Picture winner staring Tommy Lee Jones). Then surprise, surprise, this book is a major motion picture staring Viggo Mortensen. So abstract. . . yeah no. Anywho this book was quite a downer, which wouldn't have bothered me if it hadn't been so predictable. Life on the road in dominated by a post apocaliptic world that has been burned to grey ash, no critters about to eat. At one point the man a boy wandering down the road are ready to starve to death, before I got concerned I looked at the book and said, "hmmm not yet half way, they'll find a mormon bomb/food storage shelter" bit later BOOM! Underground shelter loaded with food. Before this they stumbled upon an old house open up the underground pantry to discover it full of people waiting to be eaten (best to keep them alive, keeps them fresh you know). Then the real kicker, they spy three people walking by two men and a pregnant women. Instantly I said, "They'll eat that baby as soon as it pops out" And yes I was three for three. Wander around, blah blah man destroy their world blah. But the most irritating parts of the book were when it would launch into some strange poetic kick. I'm sure there was something significant buried in these ramblings but I didn't care enough to explore deeper. And that sums up how I felt about the whole thing. Not bad but it never made me care, and the predictability just further distanced me emotionally from the whole experience.