Even worse if there ARE people around like the book.

It is extremely extremely desolate. I personally love post apocalyptic, survival, prepper - ish stuff but everything I've read before 'The Road' was Sesame Street. Throw out all the cool plot building and factions. Colorful characters with deep back stories and character archs don't exist here. Its a man trying to keep his son alive. There is no real hope. It's prolly the closest I've read to a actual reality and that is what shook me the most. No speeches or grandstanding. No heroic last stands or helping others. Me being a parent, it's the absolute worst case scenario. Terrifying to be honest. I'm glad I read it tho. What people can do and become is more terrifying than anything that can be put in paper. Man o man. Reader beware.

Truly dread. 10/10 would not do it again