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   Titus G to Paul S Person   
   Re: Cormac McCarthy's _The Road_   
   31 Jan 26 18:36:04   
   
   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 31/01/26 06:25, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:44:29 +1300, Titus G  wrote:   
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   >> BIG SPOILER Follows Was the film ending the same?   
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   >> He couldn't relax because if he dropped his guard just once to trust   
   >> someone else, he would join his son on the BBQ.   
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   > He dies at the end. And, boy, was I happy to see him go. By that time   
   > he had turned unbearably cruel.   
      
   That is nothing like what I remembered happening in the book and I   
   wonder about to whom he  was cruel. I will reread the last chapter and   
   report back.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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