Okay. It started here --
http://www.greatsociety.org/forums/index.php?topic=1435.msg53217#msg53217
Went here --
http://www.greatsociety.org/forums/index.php?topic=2810.0
And, now, the books... Or a few of them. I'm really trying to drink here, okay? Get off my back.
The Postman (Bantam Classics)<img src="
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I've said it before....I'll say it again. I love The Postman! The novel, of course, is weird and crazy and dark and hopeless... If you want to watch the movie...do so before you read the novel. Otherwise you'll be out for blood. If you've read the novel, avoid the movie.
I Am Legend<img src="
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Read this. Now.
Lucifer's Hammer<img src="
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The big daddy of meteor apocalypse novels. This shit is gripping... And has just about everything you could want. Right down to a small island commune of criminals run by a highly principled Soviet cosmonaut.
Swan Song<img src="
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My favorite nuclear apocalypse novel. The supernatural element is controlled, subtle, and well done, the destruction of the earth is wild, and the president ends up as a screaming lunatic on a West Virginia mountaintop. I couldn't put this shit down.
Eternity Road<img src="
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The brilliantly flawed Eternity Road has so much wrong with it, you have to love it. And, despite the problems, McDevitt is an excellent storyteller, and paints a lovely journeyman apocalypse that goes to all the neat places you'd want it to.
Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)<img src="
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You poor bastards. Let's go ahead and say Jericho stole everything from this novel.
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book)<img src="
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This should go on your priority read list. Amazing... and...uh... AVOID THE SEQUEL. There is no sequel. I deny it.
The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)<img src="
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The apocalypse novel. The uncut version does a better job than the original... It's eight million pages long and, strangely, you can read it in a weekend. Absorbing.
A Clockwork Orange<img src="
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That's right. A little of the old ultra-violence.
