Snap Out Of It!

I have been reading a post-apocalyptic book recommended by my brother called The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Save me. I am a little more than half-way through and so far it is all doom and gloom, and gloom and doom, and doom and gloom. I don't know if I can take any more. Then I step outside into yet another day of gloom here on Maui, and I'm not sure if I am in the book or just reading it. Since I've read this much, I have to keep on. Somehow something good has to happen sooner or later, doesn't it?