Search - The Road (Movie Tie In Edition)) (Vintage International)

I really enjoyed this book. I believe that it would be a great choice for a book club as the themes and questions about humanity would be an excellent discussion-starter. It is not a light-hearted book, but well worth reading.

The Road is an extremely dark story about a boy and his father traveling to the coast after the planet has gone through a devastating event that has poisoned the air, killed most living things, and laid down a layer of ash across the countryside. For the remaining survivors, staying alive has become the focus of their existence. Although the story is a bleak one, once I began reading, I could hardly put the book down, finishing it in two days.

At first, the first 50-40 pages, I thought this book was really depressing. A desolation of country, a father and his son walking, walking on the road to.....it was hard to tell where. But the deeper meaning of never losing hope finally poked through---The things that really matter....not money or more things than one can carry The love that is timeless and eternal. It was a pretty fast read, once I got into it.

Suspenseful, thrilling....but disturbing in some places. You keep waiting for the 'light at the end of the tunnel'...but...well...you'll have to read it for yourself, but this book definitely builds inside us an appreciation for our children. It also outlines the issues involved in the aftermath a major disaster.

Call me jaded from all of the "end of the world" books and movies that I have read/seen in the recent past but I just wasn't impressed.

I cannot recommend this book enough. Please be warned, however, that it is extremely dark.