Awesome book

I just read this awesome book called THE ROAD and I highly recommend it to anybody that likes to read. Here is a brief summary of the book.


Imagine the world as a dark, cold place as your standing over your child wondering if you were going to make it through the winter. A father is faced with this dilemma after some unnamed disaster. The father has only a nap sack, pistil and a lighter that he keeps in a shopping cart. The fate of two unnamed characters, rest in the hands of several factors such as, the weather, finding food, and shelter. Nor has the sun shinned since the disaster. The father and son stop at an a banned gas station, the father tries to call his old phone number grabs some oil, and leaves heading towards their distention the coast, where he thinks it will be warmer. Along the way ‘THE ROAD’ seems to be a very unsafe place. On the way they find out there not alone, there are a few other people who also survive. Along the way they stop at another farm house, locked in the basement to their horror they see people chained up and missing limbs apparently eaten for food. They run out after seeing people returning to the house. The father drops the lighter on the way out. After a week on the road with no food or fire they realize they need shelter and food they stumble in to a house and find a hidden root cellar full of everything they need. After a couple days they head bake out meeting an old guy on the road they give him some food and move on. The father is starting to get sick but he keeps pressing on. They do make it to the coast and find a ship caught on a sand bar. The father swims out to investigate and finds a few things they can use so they leave their belonging an off load the supplies. When they return their stuff is gone they follow the tracks and eventually find him and get their belongings back. They make camp the father knows he is dying and soon passes away. The boy covers his father with blankets and only ironically to meet a man on the road who promises him to take him back to his family.