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To: carranza2 who wrote (183661)	10/22/2006 2:02:11 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793809

I saw the book as a recitation of "how miserable it is to be miserable." I spotted the slight uplift at the ending, but I like my apocalyptic fiction to be "problem solving," and upbeat.

To: carranza2 who wrote (183661)	8/3/2007 6:46:13 AM
From: ig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793809

In a lot of ways, The Road is IMO one of his most uplifting novels despite the setting. I thought so, too. He unforgettably registers the simple beauties of life -- the color of peaches, believing in the goodness of another person -- by immersing us in a world so bleak that the appearance of these things seems miraculous. (And they are, but we get numb.) The Road was no more about post-apocalyptic happenings than The Deerhunter was about weddings, hunting, or the war in Viet Nam. The Deerhunter was about friendship; The Road was about what there is to live for.