Want to scare yourself silly? (comic, fantasy, stephen king, author)
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Read the book ONE SECOND AFTER. I can't recall the name of the author but the book is fairly recent. The premise of the book is what happens immediately after the United States is attacked by unknown terrorists using an Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon. EMP's are real! A quick GOOGLE search will give you more information about them than you can read in a day.
Of all the apocalyptic stories I have read in the last forty years this one is one of the most realistic and likely events that could happen.
A book that should be read by everyone. Especially our leaders.
I read it. I agree that it is an exciting book and a very upsetting one. It sure made me appreciate my freezer. Then about 2 months after I read it I was diagnosed with diabetes-type 2. No insulin on Type 2 but it can escalate to type 1. It won't if things go well. Talk about incentive to take care of myself. Jeeeeeez.
I read it. I agree that it is an exciting book and a very upsetting one. It sure made me appreciate my freezer. Then about 2 months after I read it I was diagnosed with diabetes-type 2. No insulin on Type 2 but it can escalate to type 1. It won't if things go well. Talk about incentive to take care of myself. Jeeeeeez.
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We do depend on our technology don't we? I take medicine for gout. Without it I would be in so much pain in a week I don't know if I would even want to live.
I broke my glasses the other day but luckily I had an extra pair. Just two generations back my grandparents were pioneers. I don't think too many near sighted pioneers could have survived on the Great Plains in the 1880's.
We really do rely on technology, I agree. Just think of the times the electricity has gone out and yet, in the dark, we continue to enter rooms and flip the switch for light.
After I read the book I looked out at the pool and thought to myself that I better stock up on chlorine....just in case.
Have you read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? That is another very fine book but it is also very upsetting. It, too, is apocalyptic.
We really do rely on technology, I agree. Just think of the times the electricity has gone out and yet, in the dark, we continue to enter rooms and flip the switch for light.
After I read the book I looked out at the pool and thought to myself that I better stock up on chlorine....just in case.
Have you read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? That is another very fine book but it is also very upsetting. It, too, is apocalyptic.
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I haven't read THE ROAD but I will. Recently I reread EARTH ABIDES. A story written in 1949 about the world after a biological event. One big contrast in ONE SECOND AFTER and EARTH ABIDES is the difference in an event where many people survive and compete for resources like in OSA and a biological event like that in EARTH ABIDES where there are very few survivors and an abundance of resources available to the survivors.
ALAS BABYLON is a good work about the aftermath of nuclear war.
I haven't read any of these but they all sound like fascinating reads. I admit I like a good scare; I'll skip the Stephen King and head straight to something a little more realistic and frightening-social unrest, global catastrophe, nuclear war and annihilation. The thought of losing all we take for granted scares me far more than the boogeyman.
I broke my glasses the other day but luckily I had an extra pair. Just two generations back my grandparents were pioneers. I don't think too many near sighted pioneers could have survived on the Great Plains in the 1880's.
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People who spent very few years in school and did almost no reading had excellent eyesight in their later years. Reading and studying is what destroys our eyes. I've been birdwatching all over the world. In third world countries, I've met many rural people in their 50s and older, who can see the details on a distant bird with his naked eye, that I could barely see with binoculars.
You may have identified the reason JTur. ". . .I've met many rural people in their 50s and older, who can see the details on a distant bird with his naked eye, that I could barely see with binoculars."
Since you were in a Third World country maybe the reason all of the residents of that country had good eyesight is because the ones who had poor eyesight did not survive long enough to reproduce. A perfect example of Darwin's survival of the fittest at work.
I haven't read any of these but they all sound like fascinating reads. I admit I like a good scare; I'll skip the Stephen King and head straight to something a little more realistic and frightening-social unrest, global catastrophe, nuclear war and annihilation. The thought of losing all we take for granted scares me far more than the boogeyman.
Thank you for the suggestions.
If you haven't read any Stephen King, how can you just arbitrarily proclaim it to be 'unrealistic'? Believe me, though there are parts of The Stand that are pure fantasy (Flagg's seemingly unlimited powers for example) the main premise of the tale (the 'super flu' and the resulting collapse of society) is very believable. Scared the pants off me thirty years ago when it was first published and ten years later when he added back all of the stuff that was originally cut (plus a bit more) it was even scarier.
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