[Perry] One Last Book

Say you’re about to die.

Like…you’re about to die but you have some time. Like, say it’s one of those apocalypse movie situations, right?

So there’s a meteor hurtling toward the earth. At the same time, there’s been a super earthquake on the far side of the world and a super tsunami is on the way toward you. Also, there’s been a zombie outbreak and your city is overrun and on top of that, there are aliens that have been biding their time at the bottom of the sea for millenia that got all woken up due to the super earthquake and the super tsunami and their sensors blaring alarms at them because a huge planet cracking meteor zipping is toward the planet.

With all of this going on huddled up safe with your family, friends and pets, you have time for one last book.

And the timing is absolutely perfect. The instant you read the last word on the last page, your house gets invaded by zombies as the super tsunami from the super earthquake washes over you and aliens rip off the roof of your house as the water comes in and then the meteor strikes the earth, cracking the entire gorramn planet in half.

So what’ll it be?

What’s the last book you’d want to read? You can chance it on something new, something that isn’t out yet. Or maybe you’d rather go back and read a classic, maybe something you read when you were young and all dewey eyed?

For me…I think I’d go back to Jack London.

He was a turn of the century American novelist and what had always struck me about his stories was the sheer force of them. It’d be a pretty serious internal debate between his Martin Eden or his Sea-Wolf but at the end of the day, I think that Sea-Wolf would be it for me.

A last look at a story that deals with life, the value of life and what it takes to live it to the fullest.

So what about you guys?

Many factors coming together to bring the world to an end and you have time for one last book.

What would you read?

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