Definitely sounds good...


You get moved in yet Grady? Be at breakfast Saturday?

No, I haven't moved into the house yet. After jury duty and catching up with the work missed the snow came...

I will definitely be at the breakfast Saturday.

No narrator, at least that I remember.

Very true to the book, no special effects (I read that they did screen out some greenery, changing it to brown in a few scenes.)

Filmed at Mt. St. Helens devastation, abandoned Penn turnpike and NJ abandonded neighborhoods.

A man's love for his son.

The movie seemed more hopeful at the end than the book for reasons I won't discuss here.

I'm still puzzled at what could happen that would kill all vegetation, all animals, fish and birds but not humans.

Recently finished it also. I can only remember a few books in my life that had me thinking and re-thinking about them. Certainly a depressing, hopeless story. Tugs at your heart-strings in a way that touches you deeply. Partly due to the innocence of the boy in the face of a mysteriously hopeless existence.

But, it seemed obvious that whatever apocolypse had occured, there was no vegetation left. Because the apocolypse had apparently occured some time ago (only a few souls left on Earth), and no animals, bugs, fish, etc., where did the oxygen come from to support human life? No vegetation, no oxygen....no? Maybe I missed something in 8th grade science class.

In any case, I just ordered MacCormack's trilogy off Amazon. I'm hooked on his writing. This is not fiction-trash a la David Baldocchi, Clive Cussler, etc. MacCormack is literature in it's truest sense. Impressive writing beyond my expectations.

Dude... Its literature.... They get to ignore all laws of biology, physics, and chemistry....