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I finished this book about a month ago and I still have the creeps from it. I pick up other books, but my thoughts return to this one. What the hell happened? I am pretty sure it was a nuclear war, just because of the man's cough and the fact that he looks at all the dead things and says "Senseless, senseless." A natural catastrophe would have no pretense of sense.
But one thing that really irks me is the bands of bad guys: where DID they get the guns and diesel fuel? Are they the military/government? I guess we can only speculate, so I'm curious what anyone has thought of it.
PS: there's a film adaptation coming out in November.
muccapazza
06-18-08, 06:01 PM
I was thinking all the bees died and that's why everything stopped growing.
Who's doing the film?
nagsheadlocal
06-19-08, 07:04 AM
I just figured the guns and fuel were leftovers they had scrounged somewhere. I was surprised at how much food and gear the father found in the beached sailboat, for instance.
It's a grim book, but not as grim as Blood Meridian. I can't imagine what a movie of The Road would be like, but perhaps we'll be pleasantly surprised.
cbchess
06-20-08, 11:11 AM
I liked it. I immediately thought of Robert Duvall when they ran across the old man - the "wandering Jew" character that has shown up so many time in literature over the years. Turn out thats who they cast him in the movie!!
explain the wandering jew character. I'm not familiar with it as a convention. I only know it as a plant.
cbchess
06-30-08, 02:07 PM
explain the wandering jew character. I'm not familiar with it as a convention. I only know it as a plant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_jew#In_literature
EvilPhish
07-23-08, 01:01 PM
According to an interview with the author (which I can't source at the moment), the events in 'the Road' were preceded by an asteroid impact.
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