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The Road
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Start date
February 1, 2009
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February 28, 2009
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Robin

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Meghan
This is what hell is. I've read Dante's Inferno and Sarte's No Exit but this is what I think hell would be. An endless walking in fear and desperation with oases of hope only to take you just far enough before you're overcome by the pointlessness of it all with the knowledge that you are too weak to end it yourself.

From the man who wrote All the Pretty Horses this is a bleak, bleak tale of humanity's last moments. I read this story with my heart clenched out of fear for our narrator and his smal
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Suz
I really thought I hated this book at first, or was going to hate this book, but it sucked me in. The imagery and prose were absolutely heart rending.
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