Long Voyage Back: A Novel

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Summary: Good book
Review: Although this book was written in 1983, it is just as scary and applicable today. Rhinehart wrote a very realistic book about nuclear holocaust that could still happen, except probably not by the Russians against the US. The scenario of thieves, pirates and desperate & fanatical people just trying to survive makes you feel like you are going thru it yourself. A horrible prospect, to say the least. I liked the idea to attempt to sail away and survive off the sea. Having just finished this great book, I feel like I was right there and part of the group. I wish there was a sequel. This is one book that is worth the read & hard to put down.

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Summary: Just like you were there & very believable!
Review: Although this book was written in 1983, it is just as scary and applicable today. Rhinehart wrote a very realistic book about nuclear holocaust that could still happen, except probably not by the Russians against the US. The scenario of thieves, pirates and desperate & fanatical people just trying to survive makes you feel like you are going thru it yourself. A horrible prospect, to say the least. I liked the idea to attempt to sail away and survive off the sea. Having just finished this great book, I feel like I was right there and part of the group. I wish there was a sequel. This is one book that is worth the read & hard to put down.

Rating:
Summary: Good book
Review: I read this a few weeks ago while on a "nuclear war/end of the world" reading frenzy.
As a longtime fan of The Diceman and The Diceman Returns, I found this book a very pleasant change in genre and style of writing for typical Rhinehart stuff.

Rating:
Summary: Good book
Review: I read this a few weeks ago while on a "nuclear war/end of the world" reading frenzy.
As a longtime fan of The Diceman and The Diceman Returns, I found this book a very pleasant change in genre and style of writing for typical Rhinehart stuff.

Rating:
Summary: A great read.
Review: I read this book when I was high-school. I am *cough* 34 now. But, I will never forget this book, or rather the way I felt about it while reading it.
It is a book about nuclear war and it's results...but more than that, I remember when I read it, I was almost in a panic. I read it when we were in the throes of the cold war in the late '80's and it would give anyone the willies to read a very realistic book about a nuclear halocaust around that time...but it was different than that....I actually FELT like this was really happening when I read the book. A strange, and undescribable feeling that we were all doomed.
So needless to say, this book, to me was very powerful, and well written.
I just happened to think about it today and thought maybe it would be here...and voila! Amazon never fails!!

Rating:
Summary: Worth reading
Review: Not a bad read based upon its limited scope. The majority of the action takes place upon a trimaran sailboat in Atlantic and Caribbean waters. It has a well done believable beginning as the "war clouds gather." The escape from a suddenly desperate surviving populace is tense and exciting. Sailing away from the devastation and desperation is a different approach than I have seen in most similar novels. Good character development also. I got a little tried of being seasick, but I guess they were on the boat alot. I've read all the apocalyptic books on all the Amazon lists and this one is worth the time. The ending was rather disappointing but getting there was fun. Blurb: A tight, simple, staightforward story of survival told in style with adequate character development and a lip biting plot using effective linear movement.

Rating:
Summary: Worth reading
Review: Not a bad read based upon its limited scope. The majority of the action takes place upon a trimaran sailboat in Atlantic and Caribbean waters. It has a well done believable beginning as the "war clouds gather." The escape from a suddenly desperate surviving populace is tense and exciting. Sailing away from the devastation and desperation is a different approach than I have seen in most similar novels. Good character development also. I got a little tried of being seasick, but I guess they were on the boat alot. I've read all the apocalyptic books on all the Amazon lists and this one is worth the time. The ending was rather disappointing but getting there was fun. Blurb: A tight, simple, staightforward story of survival told in style with adequate character development and a lip biting plot using effective linear movement.

Rating:
Summary: Worth reading
Review: Not a bad read based upon its limited scope. The majority of the action takes place upon a trimaran sailboat in Atlantic and Caribbean waters. It has a well done believable beginning as the "war clouds gather." The escape from a suddenly desperate surviving populace is tense and exciting. Sailing away from the devastation and desperation is a different approach than I have seen in most similar novels. Good character development also. I got a little tried of being seasick, but I guess they were on the boat alot. I've read all the apocalyptic books on all the Amazon lists and this one is worth the time. The ending was rather disappointing but getting there was fun. Blurb: A tight, simple, staightforward story of survival told in style with adequate character development and a lip biting plot using effective linear movement.

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Summary: A tale of escaping a nuclear holocaust by sailboat
Review: Using the topic of sailing away from a nuclear war, Luke Rhinehart creates a moving yarn of radiation clouds, near escapes, refugee centers, pirates, famine, plague, and survival. Insights into life in the Caribbean and South America after the war are prophetic.