The Road

It is rare for me to come across a book that I don't enjoy, but The Road was one of those books that I just couldn't get into. I felt that the entire plot was too convenient. The man and the boy continued to escape death by a hair and it can be assumed that the pattern was the same for the ten years prior to the beginning on the novel. How is it possible that right when they are about to starve to death they find an underground bunker filled with food? I can understand if the author wanted to include one lucky experience, but then at the end the veteran shows up right when the boy walks out into the road. It seems that the veteran and his group had been following the man and son for a while, but how did they manage to survive and keep track of two people? The meeting between the boy and the veteran grinds my gears. It was the one part of the book where I was happy for the little boy, but then someone had to tell me that it is quite possible that the veteran isn't one of the good guys. I could have gone the rest of my life thinking that the boy was taken in by a kind group of refugees, but for all I know he could be eaten.