Amy's comments (member since Nov 04, 2007)

Amy's comments from the Apocalypse Whenever group.

I think there are some differences in the lists though. Yours asks for FAVORITE post-apocalyptic FICTION. The other 2 include non-fiction as well and don't ask for the best ones. What gets me, though, are the items on both of those lists that are definitely not post-apocalyptic. Fast Food Nation, V for Vendetta? I wish there were a way to erase items that don't fit list criteria.

There seem to be at least 3 post-apocalyptic lists over on listopia:
1. Best Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
2. Apocalypse: It's Over, Dude
3. This is the end...

I read Canticle in January and liked it less than I wanted to. I didn't like how it was left largely unresolved. I can accept that that's how life is; we don't always get the answers. However, after reading all those pages, I really wanted some answers.

It's definitely an amazing show. The second season started off a bit weak, but the final episode was mind-blowing ... revolutionary. I was so excited about it and then heard that they'd canceled the show because, despite there being millions of people watching, there just aren't enough millions watching.

You can watch the whole show online (1st & 2nd seasons) if you don't want to wait for the 2nd season to come out on DVD:
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/

Didn't you find "Life After People" a little boring after having read The World Without Us? It was interesting to see Chernobyl, but everything else was just "eh". I couldn't believe they missed out on plastics though. You're right.

I've noticed that the History Channel has been having tons of post-apocalyptic stuff lately: mega disasters, the world ending in 2012, etc. I could eat it all up with a spoon. I don't know why it so very fascinating to see how we might all go down, but it is.

I'm currently reading The Ember Trilogy: The City of Ember, People of Sparks, and The Prophet of Yonwood.

It's a young adult post-apocalyptic series in which a group of people are sealed in an underground city for 200 years, supplies are running out, and the instructions on how to leave the city have been lost. I couldn't put the first book down.

I know we all love fiction apocalypse-type books, but has anyone read The World Without Us other than me?

I heard about it on NPR in September and immediately had to go out and buy it. I've never had a work of non-fiction activate my imagination in so many ways: dense Hansel & Gretel forests, roaming megafauna, organisms that learned to digest organic matter over time, lost cities, underground caverns ... I absolutely love this book because it's so much more than post-apocalyptic speculation.

Mine would be Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland.