From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/28/2026 5:05 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > 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/   
   >   
   I watched that movie.  Incredibly depressing.   
      
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   dirty old man.   
      
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