MaryAlice answers “why is it so boring?”

Meg asked this question about Earth Abides:

why is it so boring?

MaryAlice Why did I want to close my eyes and go to sleep rather than turn the next page? Because the novel was dull & uninteresting.

Earth Abides may have been…moreWhy did I want to close my eyes and go to sleep rather than turn the next page? Because the novel was dull & uninteresting.

Earth Abides may have been interesting read in the 1950s, but since that time we have had movies like Planet of the Apes, Mad Max road warrior, Star Wars & Star Trek. We survived the Cold War, lived through assassinations, saw man land on the moon, invention of the Internet which shrunk the world, so to speak.

We have read true life adventures, people who survived disasters, walked across the U.S. of A., France, Spain and so on, foregoing niceties like running water and electricity.

As someone wrote here, like reading someone's boring diary. I think it was lack of action and conversations that could further author's philosophical views, rather than long pages of Ish's thinking those same thoughts.

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