Wendy's Friend Comments

M.L. wrote: "Really. Five stars for "The Road"? Wendy...come on. I thought I was the one who liked the dark side of things. You're supposed to be the happy one!"

Yep, we're all in trouble now!!!

But seriously, doesn't The Road make you want to live so as to ensure The Big What If never happens? This book made me a better Quaker. . . and gave me the complete creeps. And reinforced my belief in the power of innocence.

Although I do think the author was just trying creep readers out at one point; there was no need to gild the lily - or in this case, paint the dead rose black - with that baby scene. That was just "how low can I go" nastiness. He'd been plenty low by then.

Okay, one more thing. For how many people in the world is horror and innocence mixed a reality rather than a self-indulgent, ward-off magic read (if I read this, it won't happen). For all its power, The Road holds an unlikely premise as to how a war of that type would work (although as Asimov said, every writer gets one improbable premise per book). What if the war looks like Sierra Leone or Rwanda - people keep coming through and killing everyone you know and then you don't have any food? Was The Road horrible because it was the end of western civilization, or because it implied Americans would hit the survival-of-the-meanest points other people have to live with now?

Okay, so I clearly need to lighten up. Maybe I should read a Meg Cabot novel next . . .

Really. Five stars for "The Road"? Wendy...come on. I thought I was the one who liked the dark side of things. You're supposed to be the happy one!