Yeah, I think the Sideling Hill tunnel is in the trailer.


All of you asking if you can read it quickly--yes. There are no chapters, but its broken up in really easy chunks. I've heard this is the most readable of McCarthy's novels. You should have no problem. Its like 290 pages.

I read this last year, but when I got to a certain section I had to put the book down for a couple days. It just got to me that much. Utterly harrowing story.

FWIW, the trailer has those snippets of an "explanation," but apparently those WILL NOT appear in the film.

I read it quickly last year and enjoyed it, but didn't have as big a reaction as others here. I'd like to give it a second go round. And I can't wait to see the film.

Great article in Esquire with an actual review of the film.

http://www.esquire.com/features/movies/the-road-movie-review-0609

"They want for people to walk out of the theater feeling it in their chest plate. They want them to say, perhaps for reasons they cannot consciously fathom, to everyone they know: You have to see it. Really.

You do. Not because it's grim, not because it's depressing, or even scary. The Road is all of those things, both acutely and chronically. But there was not a single stupid choice made in turning this book into this movie. No wrongheaded lyric tribute to the novel. No moment engineered simply to make you jump."

Maybe that Oscar buzz generated from such websites like JoBlo and Ain't It Cool News might be warranted?