I am 8 pages in, and CAPTIVATED. You already know my love of disaster novels. After the (semi) disappoinment of Andormeda Strain, I picked this up from The Next Chapter, and decided to try it instead of GRRM's next book. LEt me get a few more pages under my belt, and I'll fill in for you.
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AFTER THE FINAL CHAPTER:
Usually, I will post again in the middle of the book to let you know how it's going. THIS book, however, was SOOOOOO good, I didn't stop.
All i can say is to READ this book. If you like any type of End of the World novels, ( Lucifer's HAmmer, The Stand, Alas Babylon, etc.) This is a must have. It's not a feel good, non-complicated Utopia like Alas Babylon becomes, but a gritty, if-the -world -ends- bad-**** happens book.
The book portrays two journalists as they travel around what is left of America after a "limited" Nuclear exchange. They interview various people, describe what it's like, insert "government" document's they've recovered, and so on.
The irony in this book is rich, esp. when you consider how the world has changed since it was published in 1984. Refrences abound to the World Trade Center, California's immigration policys and the rise of Japen & the UK following WarDay.
It gets kind of dry when you read the reports, but you can skim them. I like how the Authors (Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka) "report" from the POV of different people in different situations, most of them extreme.
All in all, this book is a great companion to Lucifer's Hammer. Read LH first, then follow up with this one, (yes, i know, different disasters, but the same result) and you'll get a truer picture of what life will be like after "The End of the World".
FINAL VERDICT: 1st, Edition, signed by the authors.
