The Road. Why?

For our English independent study unit, I chose to read "The Road". The honest reason that I chose this book is because of the movie. I have not seen the movie though. My original choice was Fall, but then I saw Randy looking at the movie trailer for The Road. It looked really awesome, so I figured that the book must be ten times better, because the books usually are. The author of the book is Cormac McArthy, and it is 256 pages long. I read a lot, so I will probably just end up reading a little bit everyday, so as not to finish it too soon.