Title: I guess I missed it.
Product review: Nothing happens. At every opportunity nothing happens. Too bad. Other than that it was not a bad read. Bleak will be well described for you from every angle. But doggone it when the occasion arrises for some plot to develop it doesn't. Couldn't they have had some interaction with any number of persons they came across. The espied little boy? The torture chamber operators? I would love to tell you what a great literary achivement The Road is, and it may well be, but to me it was little more than uneventful. Being a baby boomer this is not an unfamiliar story line. We've been exposed to any number of end of the world type tales, books, movies etc. I was looking forward to a fresh perspective and that just didn't surface. Some of my fellow amateur critics have suggested Mccarthy's works to be Hemmingwayesque. Perhaps. Not a lot going on with the 'lost generation' either. I gave it three stars for it's potential as a short story. Not the 'one star' that the scale shows.
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