[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Gwylan]

Has anybody read anything really good with a post-apocalypse plot?

I've googled it etc, but nothing really stood out as being something I was looking for!

Have you tried Shute's On the Beach or McCarthy's The Road ? They're probably the most famous two - if they're not what you're looking for, what do they lack?

 

[Silk]

Has anybody read anything really good with a post-apocalypse plot?

I've googled it etc, but nothing really stood out as being something I was looking for!

A canticle for Liebowitz.
Nick Sagan's Idlewild trilogy.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban

 

[rouseytastic]

Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis

Timeless classic and ridiculously funny

 

[Silk]

I've just finished reading "The Book of Evidence " by John Banville. Brilliant writer, brilliant book.

Have moved on to "The Urth of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe - a science fiction writer like no other.

 

[Surf's Up]

The Redeemer - Jo Nesbo. Gradually working my way through all the Harry Hole books, excellent reading!

 

[glasfryn]

"Forest voices" by Humphry Phelps
small memories from people who lived in the Forest of Dean(where both sides of my family hailed from)from 1900 upto about the 60's
don't normally do much reading but this hooked me and have another similar on the way

 

[Tomo1794]

Have you tried Shute's On the Beach or McCarthy's The Road ? They're probably the most famous two - if they're not what you're looking for, what do they lack?

Hadn't heard of On the Beach but the plot summary looks to be like something I may read. I have tried to read The Road but just couldn't really get into the style of how it was written, no harm in giving it another go though!

Riddley Walker which Silk mentioned also looks like something I could immerse myself in.

The reason for me asking about the post- apocalypse is that I'm a big fan of the video game Fallout and I guess I'm just interested in how people react, or how the author perceives them to react when the world has effectively gone tits up.

 

[Silk]

Hadn't heard of On the Beach but the plot summary looks to be like something I may read. I have tried to read The Road but just couldn't really get into the style of how it was written, no harm in giving it another go though!

Riddley Walker which Silk mentioned also looks like something I could immerse myself in.

The reason for me asking about the post- apocalypse is that I'm a big fan of the video game Fallout and I guess I'm just interested in how people react, or how the author perceives them to react when the world has effectively gone tits up.

It's a fascinating genre.

 

[pasty]

Finally got round to reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Enjoying it so far, but good grief it's hard work keeping track of who's who in the Vanger family

 

[Tomo1794]

It's a fascinating genre.

Riddley Walker bought off eBay for £2.94! Can't go wrong

 

[Silk]

Riddley Walker bought off eBay for £2.94! Can't go wrong

Yo!

 

[Guy Crouchback]

Has anybody read anything really good with a post-apocalypse plot?

I've googled it etc, but nothing really stood out as being something I was looking for!

George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

Earth Abides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Gwylan]

Hadn't heard of On the Beach but the plot summary looks to be like something I may read. I have tried to read The Road but just couldn't really get into the style of how it was written, no harm in giving it another go though!

Riddley Walker which Silk mentioned also looks like something I could immerse myself in.

The reason for me asking about the post- apocalypse is that I'm a big fan of the video game Fallout and I guess I'm just interested in how people react, or how the author perceives them to react when the world has effectively gone tits up.

The other writer you could try is JG Ballard - his novels often take a natural disaster as a theme (Drowned World, Burning World, Crystal World etc)

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Start the car by David 'Bumble' Lloyd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHdMOPwKzQ

 

[rcf0712]

Prime Cut by Alan Carter - a debut crime novel based in mining boom rural WA by an Englishman who's been living here for ages, resonates for me, good read.

 

[The Modfather]

Peter James - perfect couple

 

[glasfryn]

Start the car by David 'Bumble' Lloyd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHdMOPwKzQ

absolutely hilarious

 

[glasfryn]

Hadn't heard of On the Beach but the plot summary looks to be like something I may read. I have tried to read The Road but just couldn't really get into the style of how it was written, no harm in giving it another go though!

Riddley Walker which Silk mentioned also looks like something I could immerse myself in.

The reason for me asking about the post- apocalypse is that I'm a big fan of the video game Fallout and I guess I'm just interested in how people react, or how the author perceives them to react when the world has effectively gone tits up.

never read the book but the film was amazing

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Naked Lunch - Borroughs
Rum Diarys - Thompson
The Devils - Dostoyevsky

 

[Albalbion]

Finally got round to reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Enjoying it so far, but good grief it's hard work keeping track of who's who in the Vanger family

im reading this at the moment aswell, same as you, enjoying it a lot, but hard to remember the vangers. im looking forward to getting it finished so that i can watch the film as ive been told the film is excellent.