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[Hyeon Een]

I LOVE end of the world/post-apocalyptic novels. I've been reading them since I was about 10. I love them. In no particular order, here are some I've read. I apologize if I don't mention the author name or I got it totally wrong.

Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)
The death of Grass (John Christopher???)
The Beach (Nevil Shute)
The Road (Cormac Mcarthy)
The Plague (some British 'teen' author)
Umm one of those Ringworld books
The kraken awakes (Wyndham)
Those "Tripod" books (John Christopher)
War of the Worlds (H.G.Wells)

Umm.. I just read my list and its lame. I know I've read at least 20 more but I can't remember them right now. I know I LOVE the genre though. Please, please, please me. Or better yet tell me some more End-of-the-world-novels. Or at least remind me of the one's I've read and forgotten.

[Ginormousaurus]

The Stand by Stephen King

I haven't really read any others in the genre (that I can remember off hand). But for a long time The Stand was my favorite book.

[Hyeon Een]

Yeah I read that as well. I have a problem with King though.

I like my suspension-of-disbelief to be somewhat, possibly, maybe believable to me. I find that with King I switch from "this is a great story" to "this is stupid bullshiit I hope it ends soon". The Stand and most of his work does that to me. Some of his short stories don't, and, if I remember rightly, Hearts in Atlantis also worked for me. On the whole though, I get to a certain point in a King novel and I switch from "this is a good story" to "this is crap aren't I at the last page already?". The Stand didn't work for me.

On another note, Cell lost me at about the second he got into the plot/reason of the story. I suspect that was ghostwritten. That book was another "End of the World" type book but it was the absolute shiiiiiitiest of the genre I've ever seen. It sucked my balls before I even opened the cover. If I want to read that style I'll read some Richard Laymon who at least has some hot seexxx in his writing. And he's gorier. (I deliberately didn't include Laymon in my original post because he's kinda trashy. Much like 80% of King who I also didn't include.)

If I'll include trash like King's attempts at end-of-the-world-ness I'll chuck in Laymon's Black Rain, it cuts out the neo-religious crap and adds extra violence.

[Young FRANKenstein]

I'm more of a fan of the distopic futures than apocalyptic futures.

Distopias:

1984
Brave New World
Handmaid's Tale
Fahrenheit 451

Farnham's Freehold (Heinlein) - IIRC, post nuclear war, it was the African continent that survived, and the blacks (and French language) are in charge of the world. Whites are a minority and many are slaves. Farnham and his family survive the bombs and awake into this world upside-down to what they've known.

Daybreak/Daybreak Rebel (Jose Farmer) - too many people populate the world, so suspended animation technology is used to put you in stasis for 6 days out of the week. Each person lives their life one day a week.

Apocalyptic:
The Forge of God (Greg Bear) - two aliens land on earth around the same time. One says he's there to save us, the other is heralding our destruction.

Nightfall (Asimov) - in a world where there is no night and 24 hours of daylight, the world descends into chaos when night finally does fall for the breifest of moments.

[Flash Ipanema]

I read one in 5th grade but the name escapes me. I think it takes place in Australia and an atomic bomb (or maybe bombs) have gone off, and Australia is the last place to be hit my the radiation. Everyone knows they're going to die soon, but not yet, and follows various people as they live out the remainder of their short lives.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Hyeon Een]

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[Lao Wai]

[schwa]

Check out The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

[Hyeon Een]

[Czarjorge]

The "Left Behind" series.



















hehehehe, sorry, i couldn't resist.

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