thread: 2009-06-07 : The Road
On 2009-06-09, James_Nostack wrote:
It's certainly a harrowing read. I guess the ending bothers me a bit as a cop-out. If you're going to bring faith into it at the end, suddenly there are many theological questions which deserve more than a page-and-a-half to answer.
I confess that for the first 50-60 pages I was mad at them for not doing the sensible thing, which in my mind would have been to go to a large land-grant university, where there would be lots of books to explain things, and scientific/engineering equipment, seed stocks, and many places to hide. I like to think that the communes, briefly mentioned in the novel, were thinking along the same lines.
