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The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. ]]> 4178 4.00 104417 20899 2006 3 1 false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 11:10:24 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 22:30:32 -0800 2008 The Stand and parts of The Dark Tower series, both by Stephen King. Whether that is a pro or a con depends on your taste, I suppose. The story-telling in The Road is considerably better, in my opinion, and it is also a much shorter read (I nearly finished it in o...more...]]>