Oh, post apocalyptic novels, how I love thee. What kind of phase is this? I can’t seem to get enough. (I am getting killer tips for prepping and food storage though, ha ha.) One Second After covers the fall of American civilization as we know it after an electromagnetic pulse blast [...]
Category Archives: Post-Apocalyptic
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
January 5, 2010 – 12:01 am
Alas Babylon follows a group of survivors in a small town in Florida after the USA and USSR launch their nukes in a MAD war. I liked this book. On one hand I thought it felt dated, and on the other hand I really enjoyed peeking into the mindset of 1960 and the [...]
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
October 18, 2009 – 6:41 am
I enjoyed this book. The Hunger Games is a very quick read and a real page turner. Set in a near future dystopia after the fall of the United States of America, a young girl and boy from the 12th district in the nation of Panem must compete in a death match type [...]
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
October 7, 2009 – 4:24 am
This book follows two sisters as their lives change through tragedy and the decline of the world as we know it. Have I mentioned before I’m an apocalypse junkie? This book is a fairly easy read. It isn’t split into traditional chapters but flows more as a diary. I think the [...]
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
September 21, 2009 – 10:58 am
Wow. This book has a lot of impact. This is a story about the love between a father and son in a post-apocalyptic world. They only have each other and must keep moving on the road. I have seldom read a book that more perfectly combines raw terror and simple heart [...]
The Children of Men by P.D. James
September 15, 2009 – 6:31 am
This book was well written and very thought provoking. I find myself still working over some of the moral dilemmas given in the book days after reading it. The year is 2021 and the human race is preparing for the end of civilization after worldwide infertility extinguished the ability to procreate in [...]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
September 2, 2009 – 1:18 am
A frightening dystopian novel. The story is compelling and the characters are well developed. You don’t have to be a feminist to relate to the themes of women’s rights. Thankfully we can stop reading and say, I’m glad we don’t live in a world like that today. Oh, wait, yes we do. There are lots [...]
Emergency by Neil Strauss
March 24, 2009 – 11:00 pm
I really enjoyed this book. It was a perfect blend of easy reading humor and useful information. I will preface this review by saying I have a strong bias towards survival books of any kind since I am a bit of an appocolypse junkie. I found some of the information in Emergency was common sense [...]