<![CDATA[World Made by Hand: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[World Made by Hand: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186944958m/1689657.jpg 1689657 4 <div>In the best-seller <i>The Long Emergency</i>, James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. With <i>World Made By Hand</i> Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and shows us what life may be like after these coming catastrophes—the end of oil, climate change, global pandemics, and resource wars—converge. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren’t sure. As the heat of summer intensifies, the residents struggle with the new way of life in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers replenished with fish. A captivating, utterly realistic novel, <i>World Made by Hand</i> takes speculative fiction beyond the apocalypse and shows what happens when life gets extremely local.</div> 1686489 11 2 2008 World Made by Hand: A Novel total:684|5:103|4:242|3:231|2:86|1:22| 684 2370 1208 264 2 8 false false Sat Jun 07 08:56:30 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 09:22:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Mon Aug 11 01:44:31 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 01:52:58 -0700 2008
the story may reference peak oil issues but it doesn't particularly demonstrate how a declining oil supply effects a culture.

the really bad part is the main character who is sad and everyone in the town is sad and then wakes up, goes on an adventure, ...more...]]> 3 2 true false Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 19:47:57 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 18:06:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false true Wed Jul 23 20:46:30 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 20:18:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 06:49:47 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 06:59:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 22:12:19 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 22:17:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 06:19:06 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 06:30:12 -0800 2009 The first part moves slowly, I t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 06:43:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 06:55:18 -0700 2009
It takes place in the near future, after enough awful events in the world have resulted i...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 08:30:20 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 12:48:05 -0700 2009
The government has disintegrated and the lights have flickered out. Kunstler only alludes to the cause, which seems to be an amalgam of climate change and global battles over resources (mainly oil).

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The premise is very interesting. Set in a small town in upstate New York after apocalyptic events that have essentially disbanded the government and deprived everyone of oil and e...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Apr 12 22:32:24 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 22:33:10 -0700 2009
In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculativ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Apr 10 08:06:27 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 08:16:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 19:12:11 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 17:29:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 05:49:38 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:29:59 -0700 2009 1
The bombs have gone off. The electrical grid is gone and with it, the internet. Computers are useless. Without oil production farming on a massive scale has ended. The big box stores have been looted and Wal-Mart is no more. The world has been hurtle...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 10:38:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 17:46:37 -0700 2009 Set in up-state New York and the near future, after terrorist attacks have destroyed Washington D.C. and the government and infrastructure of the United States has collapsed, this book is a humane and surprisingly hopeful look at what life might be like in a post-apocalypt...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 18:21:29 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 23:30:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 15:16:01 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 15:24:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 14 04:51:27 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 09:21:37 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 04:51:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 11:32:15 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 13:52:08 -0700 2009
I found this story sincerely disappointing because it was a concept that I was interested in (the whole what happens when modern life as we know it comes to an end) and it was done badly.

I found most, if not all, of the charact...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 20:50:26 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 20:50:26 -0700 2009
The story is somewhat disjointed and contrived and meanders off on weird tangents...but I believe the author had a purpose other than telling a great - or realistic - story about what happens after the end of the world as we know it. ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1689657