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Survival and sad themed ...

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  • 20-10-2013 10:35am
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    DublinArnie
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    Are there any more books like "The Fifth Wave" and "America Pacifica" which have dark survival themes in a destroyed or almost destroyed world? Really interested in this genre so would like to read more books in around this area.

    Thanks :).


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    cml387
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    Resurrection Day.

    And if you are doing history in the LC, an interesting view on American history.


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    TwoGallants
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    There are lots. Probably the most interesting written in the last ten years or so is Cormac Mc Carthy´s ´The Road´. Good luck.


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    sadie06
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    TwoGallants wrote: »
    There are lots. Probably the most interesting written in the last ten years or so is Cormac Mc Carthy´s ´The Road´. Good luck.

    I second this recommendation, but proceed with caution. It's hard to shake off the gloominess afterwards. Very hard!


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    DublinArnie
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    TwoGallants wrote: »
    There are lots. Probably the most interesting written in the last ten years or so is Cormac Mc Carthy´s ´The Road´. Good luck.
    I saw the film actually :D. Might read the book if the story is any different(?).


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    Ipso
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    On the Beach by Neville Shute is supposed to be very good


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    HansHolzel
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    DublinArnie wrote: »
    ... dark survival themes in a destroyed or almost destroyed world...

    Alex Ferguson's upcoming autobiography


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    Gryzor
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    Search this forum for "Dystopian" you'll find threads like this. Should cover what you're after...


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    Manach
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    'The Postman' by David Brin, the book and not the film.


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    Banneret
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    great books guys, good shares.

    any more please?

    Thank You.


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    Harry Angstrom
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    Banneret wrote: »
    great books guys, good shares.

    any more please?

    Thank You.

    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I wouldn't have minded living in the World State. Didn't sound so bad to me......


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    HeadPig
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    The Stand by Stephen King. Decent book, a lot better than that rubbish "The Road"


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    clairefontaine
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    Alive.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive:_The_Story_of_the_Andes_Survivors


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    goose2005
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    Robert Swindells' "Brother in the Land" is a really good (and quite depressing) book about a nuclear attack on England and the aftermath


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    TwoGallants
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    HeadPig wrote: »
    The Stand by Stephen King. Decent book, a lot better than that rubbish "The Road"

    Ooooh, you're a hard man...


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    Ormus
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    If you want entertainment and zombies/vampires, try I am Legend by Richard Matheson, and the Passage (first of a trilogy) by Justin Cronin


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    Tabnabs
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    Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

    Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank

    Beware, there's sadly also a lot of dross printed in this category .


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