Ever see "The Road" with Viggo Mortensen?

[MrScorpio]

It's like a Right Wing paradise in that movie... No government, no regulations of any kind, anybody who wants a gun can have a gun and you never have to worry about paying any taxes.

Just don't mind that money is worthless, the environment is a wasteland and most of the surviving population has turned to cannibalism and you have a situation where just about any teabagger can feel right at home.

Great movie, by the way.

[knowbody0]

1. agreed

anti socialist paradise

[quinnox]

2. nope, missed that one on purpose

I heard it was pretty boring actually. *shrug*

[paulk]

3. the book is much better

Cormac McCarthy

[Gormy Cuss]

4. +1

[Tom Ripley]

5. +2

[Dawgs]

11. +3.

:hi:

[Bluenorthwest]

6. The book is far better....

Although the film was good too.

[LonePirate]

7. Having not read the book, the farmhouse basement scene gave me chills. It was intensely frightening.

[valerief]

8. Life is unpleasant enough without viewing realistic horror. nt

[kestrel91316]

9. Fabulous book and film. The book is pure poetry for its spare, stark

style. Takes the whole TEOTWAWKI scenario and turns it into fine literature.

The film is exquisite in its starkness also.

[SheilaT]

10. I actually could not get through

the book. It simply made no sense to me. How did they get food? What exactly were they doing on the road? I simply could not get why it was thought to be so fabulous, other than it was a version of science fiction that appealed to those who normally never read science fiction.

[Dawgs]

12. Doesn't sound like you read the book at all. n/t

[SheilaT]

15. I must have read at least fifty pages

which is a fair try for any book. I'm actually not stating what I thought of it very strongly out of respect for the fact that others liked it.

[Dreamer Tatum]

19. Maybe you should reserve opinion on books you don't finish.

As it is, your opinion that it's science fiction is utterly laughable.

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. Did you not see that "getting food" was pretty much THE POINT of the book?

And where do you get that it's "science fiction?" There was zero science, zip, zilch, nada in that book.

Are you sure you read The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, and not something else?

[SheilaT]

17. Yes, I did start that specific book.

My brother passed his copy on to me and I was quite amazed at how bad I thought it was. And generally speaking "science fiction" includes all post-apocalypse novels, even though if you're considered a mainstream author, your work will get published and promoted as mainstream.

[Dreamer Tatum]

18. Your own thoughts amaze you? nt

[WCGreen]

23. It wasn't Sci Fi, it is a allegory for the waste of man and how family

is so imporant to ready us all for a brutal world.

[NNN0LHI]

14. Sounds like the movie A Boy And His Dog

[graywarrior]

16. I thought the same thing!

[WCGreen]

20. It was much better as a book....

The terror was palpable as I read it.

The movie, not so much. To episodic.

[Iggo]

21. I started watching it two or three times, but I just couldn't get into it.

Finally deleted it.

[evrstrong]

22. It was no "Soylent Green." n/t

[txlibdem]

24. It was the most depressing movie -- pales in comparison to Soylent Green

[applegrove]

25. I read the book. It was depressing enough that I never saw the movie.

Yes. What the GOP wants looks like Pakistan.