From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article <10lehob$104c2$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G   wrote:   
   >McCarthy is one of my favourite authors but The Road was most   
   >disappointing. I think of it as a horror and shaggy dog tale which would   
   >have been better as a short story. The science aspect has been heavily   
   >criticised here previously but that wasn't a problem for me as I just   
   >accepted the situation as initially described.   
      
   There is no science because there is no explanation about how things got   
   this way.  Nothing at all, and that is part of the disturbing bit... I spent   
   so much of my time trying to figure out what had happened and in the end   
   I never did.   
      
   >I thought that the book   
   >was dull, apart from the shaggy dog ending, and depressing. I shouldn't   
   >have been surprised that Dimwire concluded something stupid or something   
   >contrary to the author's intention but the statement that the father   
   >saved his son is almost unbelievable. McCarthy doesn't do Enid Blyton   
   >nor teenage adventure.   
      
   I didn't find it dull at all, but I did find it extremely depressing.  I   
   liked both of the characters and I liked their relationship and I wanted   
   to know what would happen to them.  But then, I also liked Zen and the   
   Art of Motorcycle Maintenance a lot too.   
      
   Did the father save the son or did the son just think he did?  Does it   
   matter?  Shouldn't we avoid giving spoilers?   
   --scott   
      
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)