The Road

I read the Road by Cormac McCarthy in two days. It was very bleak indeed. But it was strangely compelling. Considering you don't find out what the two main character's names are, and that, for the most part, not a lot happens, it's hard to put the book down. It's mainly about a father and son walking around a post-apocalyptic dead world pushing a trolly, trying to find something to eat. But you probably know that anyway, seeing as the film of the book was everywhere a while back. I haven't seen the film, but reading the book made me think that maybe it should just stay as a book, that a film doesn't need to exist. What a book can create with a few words, would take a load of money to create on the big screen, and whats the point, if it doesn't add anything to what has been created perfectly as a novel?