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This was the most recent Free Friday offering for the Nook. I started reading Friday morning and finished by Monday. It really belongs on an apocalypse bookshelf rather than a post-apocalyptic, but I don't want to add another shelf.
Most literary apocalypses are sudden and unexpected. One day, the characters are going about their normal business, the next they're fighting off zombies or looters to survive. In this bleak novel, the apocalypse is slow and nobody really realizes it's happening even ...more
Most literary apocalypses are sudden and unexpected. One day, the characters are going about their normal business, the next they're fighting off zombies or looters to survive. In this bleak novel, the apocalypse is slow and nobody really realizes it's happening even ...more
The end of the world set in Savannah and rural Georgia. The book is told through the eyes of an increasingly hungry young man in vignettes set months and sometimes year apart. It was honest and fair and scary and horrible. And the ending was neither exactly a win or a loss. This is not a happy book nor an even book but it had a great trajectory.
Three and a half stars.
This isn't so much post-apocalyptic as during the apocalypse. As the title suggests, this is a soft apocalypse, i.e., there's no one apocalyptic event, there's a series of smaller events that cumulatively lead to the disintegration of society. It's an interesting premise but there are some problems with it.
I was hoping it would start with the present day but the first chapter takes place a little over a decade into the future. Each chapter is 6 months or more in the futur ...more
This isn't so much post-apocalyptic as during the apocalypse. As the title suggests, this is a soft apocalypse, i.e., there's no one apocalyptic event, there's a series of smaller events that cumulatively lead to the disintegration of society. It's an interesting premise but there are some problems with it.
I was hoping it would start with the present day but the first chapter takes place a little over a decade into the future. Each chapter is 6 months or more in the futur ...more
And all of a sudden it seemed obvious. I was living through an apocalypse. I was at a dating service in the middle of a slow apocalypse. Things weren't going to get better like the government said, they were going to keep getting worse....more
Danielle told me that she'd really enjoyed meeting me; I said me too, although I had no idea whether I'd enjoyed meeting her or not. There was a song spinning in my head now, some really old thing about how when the world was running down, make the best of what's
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