[ SECRET POST #2568 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2568 ⌋

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Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I've read most of those, but they're a bit too bleak for me. I want a book that's like the Mad Max movies, or Fallout without some of the more 'out-there' concepts like supermutants.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Hmmm. A Boy and His Dog might be the thing for you, OP.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I loved the movie, and I think I may have read the story a half-dozen times. It's a shame it doesn't get the praise it deserves, it's my favorite Ellison story.

Re: OP

[hands4healing]

I personally prefer the very black humor in the movie, but I adore the idea of intelligent, telepathic dogs enough to love the novella and the graphic novel, too.

Re: OP

[dethtoll]

Sooo

You want post-apocalypse fiction

That isn't bleak?



FYI There aren't any books like that. There isn't a whole lot of ANYTHIGN like that. Matter of fact, Fallout was inspired by the exact same stuff I just listed.

I think you're reading the wrong genre.

Re: OP

[comma_chameleon]

But but... I want CHEERFUL post-apocalyptic stories! With rainbows and happiness, but no romance, so not too happy, and... yeah... I don't think this is going to work. :|

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Adventure Time?

Re: OP

[dethtoll]

I'm not sure that really counts. The post-apoc side of it is barely touched on, it's almost always strictly background.

Re: OP

[frith_in_thorns]

Shade's Children? It has some romance, but no triangles (and minimal angst about it).

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno ... The ending is happy enough, but some parts of that book are pretty fucking bleak. Also, it has ~romance~. *rolls eyes*

Re: OP

[otakugal15]

The Stand is bleak? It ends with Good beating Evil and the promise of civilization being reborn!!

....though that random chapter in the Director's cut that is just about people dying of freak accidents who survived the plague...yeah, unnecessary.

Re: OP

[dethtoll]

I like that chapter!

Re: OP

[ninety6tears]

I can see it being interpreted as bleak. It's the promise of civilization being reborn but possibly going on to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. And as seems to be like many King stories, good has buried evil, at least for a while, but hasn't necessarily vanquished it. After having to sacrifice the bulk of the main characters in order to achieve even that, I think it's bittersweet at the most.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I loved that chapter! SK talks way the fuck too much and it's probably for the best that The Stand was edited so ruthlessly but I did love that chapter, especially the Catholic guy whose entire brood of children died and how he runs himself into a heart attack because it's against his religion to commit suicide.

The Stand is pretty bleak though--even if evil is defeated a LOT of good guys are killed, Flagg comes back at the end (he appears to some tribe in the Pacific, IIRC), and the heroes who are left alive are still full of questions.