i have been reading the Road. this nis one of the most depressing boks ever. but the main characters are probably the luckiest people ever. in this post-apocalyptic world they find an underground bunker that the owner has died. this bunker has been prepaired for this wasteland to appear. later they find an abandonded mansion full of food when they are about to starve again. how they get this lucky in armagedon is beyond me. in all actuality they will have starved dehydrated and suffocated in that world. this shows that some authors are almost beyond realism.