The Road: Comac McCarthy

Very interesting take on the end of the world, being both believable and frightening. No Zombies, no mad scientist, no weird background story, you are left to determine what happened to cause anarchy. The conversations between the father and son tell a lot of what life has become. There is really nothing to talk about but survival. The man tries to make his son into a man so he can fend for himself (since he knows he is dying) yet the son is still a child, scared, forgetful, unable to think, and kind. He doesn't have the survival skills needed to make it in the new world and is lucky the story ends as it does, though I am not sure why the family followed them and didn't make themselves known until the father dies.