Nevil Shute: On the Beach (Romance Literature)

Beautiful red sunsets. Doom on the horizon. A still is in the air. Nuclear Terror proliferates. What is this, the 1950s? NO! Its the 2000s, reading the 1950s. Nevil Shute is the bomb, especially in his blockbuster hit. Nobody who wishes to read about apocalypse and apocalyptic nuclear world ending beaches should avoid this book. Forget Cormac mcCarthy. Dont forget J.G. Ballards Terminal Beach. Instead, forget the present doom mongering and relax in Miami with a nostalgic look back on an era we should have destroyed while we had a chance. Sorry, bias factor ten to the tenth power. After reading this for the third time in ten years, I have to end up giving it a mere Three Kiloton Blast out of a possible Ten. Too much romance. Theres no romance in Nuclear War! Duh.

- Nuke kaBOOM [Oct 17 2006 04:35 AM]