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Summary: One of the most frightening books ever written!!!
Review: I have read this book dozens of times. I buy copies at the used book store and give them away to people! Post WWIII America, as seen by two travelling journalists, although still the United States, is a changed, humbled, quiet place. Much of the population has been killed, but America presses on, in many directions. I recommend this book to any and all, regardless of your political stripe. You will not put it down until you are finished reading it.
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Summary: One of the most frightening books ever written!!!
Review: I have read this book dozens of times. I buy copies at the used book store and give them away to people! Post WWIII America, as seen by two travelling journalists, although still the United States, is a changed, humbled, quiet place. Much of the population has been killed, but America presses on, in many directions. I recommend this book to any and all, regardless of your political stripe. You will not put it down until you are finished reading it.
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Summary: Food for thought
Review: I've had this book in paperback for a number of years and re-read it every so often. It's a great read- a realistic account of the aftermath of a nuclear war. No magic, no special effects. Just folks trying to put their lives back together. I keep it on my shelf with "Alas, Babylon", Hammerfall and Emergence. All great books. They're starting to fall apart so I'm trying to find them in hardcover.
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Summary: Fascinating speculative fiction.
Review: Presented as an actual historical study of the effects of a limited nuclear exchange on the US, War Day and the Jounrey Onward is an intriguing read and far superior to Strieber's current non-fiction output. Recommended.
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Summary: Nuclear Sunset
Review: The authors captured the true essence of a nuclear exchange and its probable impact on the world. We would be well advised to read this book, set it aside, and then read it the next time any government wishes to resort to force of arms. The consequences of irrational acts can easily lead to the end of our world.
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Summary: creepy...I can't get parts out of my head
Review: The book is very well thought out. In a couple places it seems a bit too quick and easy (like escaping froma prison bud through a vent in the ceiling), but 99 % is well told. Just the facts alone about what this country would go through after four bomb targets...forget a fullscale war. It's scary: the famine, the outbrakes of disease, the nation splitting up... read it! You won't regret the time it takes(I finished it in two days)
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Summary: War Day
Review: The book was good at the begining, but it started to become boring after they left Los Angeles. It was still, altogether, a good book. But because it picked me up and constantly dropped my attention, I give it 4 instead of five.
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Summary: Kept me going and started to lose me
Review: The book was good at the begining, but it started to become boring after they left Los Angeles. It was still, altogether, a good book. But because it picked me up and constantly dropped my attention, I give it 4 instead of five.
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Summary: War Day
Review: The most entertaining book I've ever read. Chilling, realistic and extremely well thought through. This book really brings home the concept of weapons of mass destruction and what they are capable of doing to us all.The level of detail is amazing. My favorite example of this is the short conversation with the Canadian on the train. If you can find this book, I recommend it wholeheartedly.
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Summary: One of the best "post nuke"
Review: This is about the best of the post nuke novels around. The plot is simple, two writers, having survived a very limited nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States journey around the United States to gather what has happenned to the Country. Along the way, as is foreshadowed above they tell their own stories of survival, as well as interview numerous people- a british navel officer, a canadian banker, a former cabinet menber, a priest and so on. This is combined with the stories of the central narrators who not only reveal their own stories, but tell of their travel. The central premise is not so much a full collapse of society, but rather a broken and battered United States, with States and territories leaving the Union, independence movements and dependent on overseas aid primarily from the United Kingdom, and Japan. All in all a solid novel, enjoyable and very readible. Because in many cases the interviews with people are short, you are often left wandering what happened to them in the finish. Well worth a read, and not just by "apocalyptic" fiction fans. Its better than "the stand" anyway.
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