i finished reading the road even if you plan on reading it you can still read my opinions about it i do try pretty hard to ruin things for everybody i don’t like to be the only one down at my level though i doubt my stupid opinions of this magically scary book will matter much i tend to focus on the smaller things rather the bigger obvious picture as i react to every other thing in my life. the road is cryptic and vague and the first several pages you do not know what is going on at all i don’t know if the hardcover is meant to have a jacket or if lise kept it cos she thinks i am a slob and will get ketchup on it or red wine yeah i probably would so anyway without a jacket i had no brief synopsis of the book to consult every few pages like a key i always have to have a synopsis even if it is a three line paragraph like halfway through the book the synopsis will hold my hand OH RIGHT HE HAS BLOND HAIR ok maybe you should stop reading my opinions as clearly i do not know what they are.

so this dad and son are travelling the land and it is all charred and burned away and ash is everywhere and they are survivors of some whatever happened to the earth and they have a shopping cart full of their belongings if you were to read this in school and do a book report on it i advise that you mention the shopping cart as it is SYMBOLISM for SURVIVAL or maybe HOPE wussy shit like that you could even get more wuss and say it is like a third character in the story holy fuck i would give you an F based on how pansy that is, though, secretly think you are smart.

um.

you could also say the pistol they carry is symbolic why i don’t know or care cos everytime it is mentioned i get scared because that means something dangerous is happening or about to happen.

there are other people they come across and they are known as BAD GUYS cos they are cannibals. the dad and son are travelling south to the coast where it is suppose to be better, but it isn’t. this book is pretty fucking depressing there are maybe two parts that aren’t and they are very short parts. you will probably cry at a certain point. i would like to know how fucking old the son is suppose to be he could be five or 8 or 4 whatever.

it is a terrific read and i love how it is written. A+.