SUSAN S. (susieqmillsacoustics) - , reviewed on 5/15/2010 + 1062 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

This is a very strange book. It is written as a continuous tale-there are no chapters and no quotation marks when people speak. It is of a father and son surviving each day in a dangerous post-apocalyptic world. It is somehow mesmerizing and kept me reading, though always tense with what would come next. It does not have much depth-no real explanation of how it became a post-apocalyptic world, you never even know the main characters' names. It sticks to the journey of this father and son in a hopeless world and their relationship and their differences in how they see the world, and also their love for each other. One thing this book does is make you appreciate things we take for granted everyday. One example is the father finds a canned coke and gives it to the boy to drink and he asked "What is it?" It was worth reading, but not especially satisfying.

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