Title: Falls short
Product review: Just finished The Road. Knew that it was featured in Oprah's Book Club, but decided to read it anyway. Have mixed feelings. I wasn't wowed by this book. I didn't know what to expect - but it seems like this would have been better as a short story rather than a novel. The characters don't really develop in a way that compliments the rich descriptions of the world they inhabit. It is a powerful book, but it was missing a "heart". Even the innocent boy is one dimensional. It seems to me that if one is going to write a book in which a post-apocolyptic cannibal-infested hell on earth is merely a backdrop- there needs to be more depth to the characters.It is really just a vivid description of completely random events - the story doesn't build at all. Maybe it isn't supposed to. Seems like wasted potential.
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