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Birmingham, 35 Miles
In this haunting and poignant debut novel, James Braziel tells an unforgettable story of love, family, and survival across a world that has already begun to die.…
When the ozone layer opened and the sun relentlessly scorched the land, there was nothing left but to hope. Mathew Harrison had always heard of a better life as close as Birmingham, only thirty-five miles away—zon...more
When the ozone layer opened and the sun relentlessly scorched the land, there was nothing left but to hope. Mathew Harrison had always heard of a better life as close as Birmingham, only thirty-five miles away—zon...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
February 26th 2008
by Bantam
(first published 2008)
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I liked the prose style of Snakeskin Road but did not go beyond a fast browsing so far and then recently I got reminded by this one, the debut of the author and the first novel in the universe that Snakeskin Road takes place, so I decided to give it a try.
I really liked the style of this one and a lot of the stuff in it (internal passports, "deserters"..) reminded me strongly of my first 21 years spent in a communist hellhole, but I really could not connect with the charact...more
I really liked the style of this one and a lot of the stuff in it (internal passports, "deserters"..) reminded me strongly of my first 21 years spent in a communist hellhole, but I really could not connect with the charact...more
Post-apocalyptic books entice me to read them, particularly global-warming caused, but this one was a lousy book. I should have stopped reading it instead of actually finishing it. I kept thinking it has got to get better, but it didn’t. Waste of time. It was not interesting. The timeline jumped around way too much, I suppose in attempt to create suspense for the story, but it didn’t work, it just got in the way. I was barely interested in what happened to these people, or why, the big question...more
Birmingham 35 Miles is set in an intriguing near-future--southern Alabama, rendered virtually lifeless by a hole in the ozone layer. The main character, Mat, is at a crossroads where he must choose between the woman that he loves and a dream of a "saved world" and the life he has always known which, though horrific, is at least familiar.
I had to speed read the last half of this book because it's taken me forever and a day to get through it, and it needed to get back to the ...more
I had to speed read the last half of this book because it's taken me forever and a day to get through it, and it needed to get back to the ...more
A father and son endure after ozone depletion scorches the earth. This was OK but it was no "The Road" which was a much better treatise of the same genre.
Not bad. Cool to read a book with a setting in South Alabama (where I'm from), even Dothan! But I have two criticisms: too many similes (I'm a songwriter and love them, so there must have been a lot!) and the ending is so disappointing unless there's a sequel on the way.
A look at a post-greenhouse-apocalypse world where Birmingham represents one of the southern outposts of the "Saved World." I thought the idea was excellent, but the execution left much to be desired.
A good debut. I'm going to look for more from this author in the future.
Literary sci-fi. Great prose and a tangible setting. Very readable.
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