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DEEEEE-pressing. As has been pointed out before: there is no anarchy or any outright panic present at all. What you have is just pure sadness. This is a novel that will stick with me enough that Ill never need to read it again. Thats not to say that it wasnt good, but it accomplished what it needed to accomplish with me and thats that. Its very interesting to see the other possible scenario if it came down to a society knowing that they only had months more to live. Anarchy is usually the first
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This one totally snuck up on me. At first I was like, where is the drama and desperation? But slowly the characters won me over and by the time we got to the [spoilers] pogo stick scene, I had tears streaming down my face. To the critics who don't buy the calm, resolute end-of-world vibe, I choose to believe there was much more dark stuff happening that didn't get focused on in the novel. It was written in a time when graciousness was still aspired to, even in an apocalypse. The 'truth' came in
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Oct 21, 2008
Carolyn
marked it as browse-to-read-someday
May 01, 2010
Sandi
rated it
it was ok
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