Icon Re: Ok, been reading The Road...
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Well, I can give you a cyber punch in the mouth right?

I think I should have read a different book from him to start with. Basically in this one not only has he stripped the landscape bare but the people too. They are all skin and bones and their basic instincts. While the lead character keeps returning to the idea that there is no past and no future he dreams and remembers his past constantly and it's all more pain and suffering. The scenes with the wife were pretty brutal to read and set-up the dread of dealing with his present. I'm drawn to the book and repulsed at the same time. The idea, and it's a real one, that we feed our children to the world we have created is obviously quite timely.

I might need a cyber hug before I can finish this damn thing.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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