From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/28/2026 4:20 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Why haven't I heard of this before?   
   >   
   > If you crossed Stephen King's _The Stand_ with Pirsig's _Zen and the Art of   
   > Motorcycle Maintenance_, you would get this book.  A man and his son are   
   > headed out into the wasteland after some terrible apocalypse that has burned   
   > all the land and killed many people and all of the vegetation.  Anything that   
   > could kill kudzu is serious.  There are philosophical discussions, there is   
   > a fight for survival, there are good people and bad people.  Some of the   
   > bad people are pretty bad.  I enjoyed the book and I didn't really expect to.   
   > I think it's SF.   
   > --scott   
      
   It is apocalyptic SF/F.  Awesome book and scary bad.  The man and his   
   son survived the apocalypse where they were at in the USA and then   
   walked to the Gulf Coast when all of the food was gone.  Before the walk   
   started, the man had already gotten poisoning from scrounging for food.   
   But he protected his son from the apocalypse.   
       https://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895   
      
   There is a movie version also.   
       https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/   
      
   Lynn   
      
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