09-08-2009, 06:18 PM | #1 | ||
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Post Apocalyptic Books!
Do any of you have suggestions of books centered in the post-apocalypse? im thinking about going to the library and trying to find a good read, suggestions would be welcomed.
Right now i only know too look for 2 books; World War Z and George Orwells 1984
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09-08-2009, 08:12 PM | #2 | ||
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Terry Brooks does a series on a post apocalypse. But it contains fantasy too so maybe not what you're looking for.
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09-08-2009, 08:49 PM | #3 | ||
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An old one, but somehow a 'must'.
The day of the triffids by John Wyndham. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid If you really want the classic post apocalypse: The Crysalids by again John Wyndham. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysalids
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09-08-2009, 09:04 PM | #4 | ||
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"The Survivalist" series by Jerry Ahern isn't bad, if very action-centered.
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09-08-2009, 09:12 PM | #5 | ||
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ill have to read the Crysalids next year for school anyways its part of the curiculum for some reason so i wont bother gettign that from the library, but everything else sonds good, keep them coming
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09-08-2009, 09:20 PM | #6 | ||
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I hear The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a good post-apoc book.
Link at Amazon.co.uk |
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10-08-2009, 12:28 AM | #7 | ||
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McCarthys books are hard to read though, ive read al lthe pretty ponies, the crossing, and no country for old men...
All of 0 punctuation! he is a good author though
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10-08-2009, 12:36 AM | #8 | ||
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Stephen King's The Stand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand) and Robert R. McCammon's Swan Song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_%28novel%29). Of course, only if you are into horror stuff (although the horror parts are quite minimum here).
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10-08-2009, 06:22 AM | #9 | ||
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Richard Matheson's "I am Legend" was pretty interesting, a while back.
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10-08-2009, 06:41 AM | #10 | ||
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I really liked "Earth Abides", by George R. Stewart. It's very interesting the reconstruction of society afterwards, although I don't really buy some of its ideas. But it is interesting, nonetheless.
I read it some 8 or 9 years back, and I would love to read it again, although I didn't make any effort to find it again. Maybe I should... |
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