I love end of the world books such as The Stand, The Postman, Childhoods End, Earth Abides and Damnation Alley. What in your opinion are the best books of this genre? I need something new to read.
elric1001 Slacker Posted 10 December 2008 11:11 AM I love end of the world books such as The Stand, The Postman, Childhoods End, Earth Abides and Damnation Alley. What in your opinion are the best books of this genre? I need something new to read.
I assume you know that you are posting of a "movie" thread not a "book" thread. I'm going to, however, offer an older book you may want to look up, it's probably out of print though. So if you want something "old" to read, I read it years ago, but I recently went on-line and purchased it to read it again. It was published in 1959, written by Mordecai Roshwald, the name of the book is simply Level Seven. In same ways it's an emotionally tough book to read, but it really reflects the horror and the fear of the times and the possibility of the end of the world that still may exist even today in terms of premise of the writer - nuclear holocaust. Other books are Fail Safe and Seven Days in May both which also deal with the same threat of nuclear attack (and both also which were made into movies).
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By far the BEST Ends Times Novel, is "Scars" By Patience Prence. It is better then Left Behind because Left Behind was not accurate as far as Bible scriptures go. Reading "Scars" helped me really understand Revelation. And I really loved the characters, Becky Silver, who is in prison awaiting her execution, and Brook Summers, who is a journalist. The ending is sooo amazing, I JUST LOVED IT! I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO EVERYBODY, YOUNG AND OLD! I give is an AAAAAA++++++++++++++
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Fitz Know-It-All Posted 31 March 2009 06:22 PM Cormac McCarthy - The Road
assuming "end of the world" and post-apocalypse are the same thing. incredible book.
I wouldn't necessarily make the assumption that "end of the world" and "post-apocalypse" are the same, but based on the examples provided by the originator of this thread, appears to share your opinion. In fact now that you pointed this possibility out, you may have actually described this thread better than the person who started it. Nice catch, something I didn't. However, it would still insist on a distinction because there is a huge emotional or psychological shift in whether there is an "end" or something "hereafter" in tone, in just the preparation and acceptance or denial of the ultimate or not.
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I assume you know that you are posting of a "movie" thread not a "book" thread. I'm going to, however, offer an older book you may want to look up, it's probably out of print though. So if you want something "old" to read, I read it years ago, but I recently went on-line and purchased it to read it again. It was published in 1959, written by Mordecai Roshwald, the name of the book is simply Level Seven. In same ways it's an emotionally tough book to read, but it really reflects the horror and the fear of the times and the possibility of the end of the world that still may exist even today in terms of premise of the writer - nuclear holocaust. Other books are Fail Safe and Seven Days in May both which also deal with the same threat of nuclear attack (and both also which were made into movies).
