Gwilym Hughes answers “I read the first few pages, it is dark! ...”

Chris Ng asked this question about The Road:

I read the first few pages, it is dark! Would I commit suicide before the end of the book? Or are there any light in the ending?

Gwilym Hughes This book was hyped in the UK as the best dystopian book of the last 10-20 years. Don't be fooled.
I found this book to be full of hope and faith in s…moreThis book was hyped in the UK as the best dystopian book of the last 10-20 years. Don't be fooled.
I found this book to be full of hope and faith in something beyond mankind's stupidity and greed in ruining a perfectly formed planet for all our needs. There were beautiful moments between a knowing father and the usual teenage son in this book but, unfortunately, it tried to deal with a huge topic in a meandering, 'Holywood' sweep (I feel a lot of writers see film rights in their books and write them with that in mind).
The natural minutia of what it would really be like is not delved into sufficiently for my liking, relying instead on the 'Mad Max' syndrome, as I like to call it.
I found Robert Edric's 'Salvage' a more believable read bar none.

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