[ SECRET POST #2568 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2568 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...are you for real?

On The Beach?

The Chrysalids?

A Canticle for Leibowitz?

Planet of The Apes?

Alas Babylon?

The Postman?

Note: I'm not endorsing all of these (I'm definitely not a fan of the Brin book), but they all meet OP's criteria.

[(Anonymous)]

What was your problem with The Postman? JW - I remember enjoying it quite a bit, even if the ending was kind of dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Ehhhh, IDK, it's one of those "It's not you, it's me" things. I just can't get into Brin. Try as I did (I read loads of his stuff in the '90s), his writing overall just doesn't grab me. I can't recall offhand specific things about the book(s--originally it was two novellas) that I actively disliked; I just find everything I've read by Brin to be dull. Which isn't a reflection on his writing (which is good), it's just my own personal taste. *shrug*

Sorry I can't give direct examples. I very very remember reading the first novella/part in an old magazine I bought in a secondhand bookstore in the late 80s, but can't recall specifically what it was about the book, other than having to struggle to finish it.

Which is something I've found with all of Brin's work that I've read. For whatever reason, my brain just thinks his style of writing is unbearably dull (even though it isn't).

[(Anonymous)]

Hm, fair enough! Yeah, it's not like I think he's a genius or anything, but his books are usually pretty entertaining for me. Different personal tastes, like you said.

[tabaqui]

I liked the book well enough, but honestly preferred how the movie telescoped the timeline. Plus - Tom Petty!

[comma_chameleon]

The Chrysalids~~. <3 I love the Chrysalids, it was one of my favourite books as a kid. Between that and Day of the Triffids and Pride and Prejudice.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Though, now that I think about it, the book may not meet OP's criteria, with the endgame.

[(Anonymous)]

A Canticle for Leibowitz

I cannot recommend this strongly enough.

[dethtoll]

Bewarned for people who might be interested that if you're one of those kinds of people who flip their shit if there's a church in the background of a TV show, don't read this book. It's about a lone monastary in the American southwest that rescues, copies and restores books 500 years after a nuclear war.

It's a great book, it's one of the (many) influences on Fallout, and it's, like many post-apocalypse books of the period (1950s/60s) strikingly poignant, if sometimes a bit grim.

[(Anonymous)]

It's Catholic as shit. But, yeah, it's also a great book.

[(Anonymous)]

B5 also references the shit out of it in its distant future finale.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Also The Stand by Stephen King