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Extreme Road Warrior
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Location: Michigan | So I am reading this book by Robert McCammon. Copyright is 1987. It is a book of fiction, similiar to Stephen Kings "The Stand" in the good versus evil aftermath of a global happening.
But what got me was how eerily similiar his opening chapter is to world events of today. Not exact, not even close, but enough to be a little freaky.
For instance he writes Soviet involvement with Afganistan and how it was destroyed via nervegas and nuclear wepons. Then bombings in Beirut. India attacking Pakistan, Iran dropping Soviet missiles on Iraq killing American forces occupying Iraq. And some submarines of Soviet orient wreaking havoc on American soil.
He then describes how the current president has inherited a tumbling economy, crime is out of control, the housing market leaving hundreds of thousand homeless, civil unrest, and arms dealers selling nuclear weapons to third world countries.
Of course it isn't accurate, not even close in some aspects. But it is just kind of eerie reading a book that was written so long ago that even remotely touches on how easily we could become this ficticious world.
I was only in High School back then, but it just struck me that even then the "writing was on the wall" for the potential for some of the stuff we are dealing with now. Most writers include some elements of truth in their fiction.
Like I said, it was just really interesting to me. I haven't finished the book yet, but there is quite a bit of info on survivalist camps/shelters and their failures against nuclear strikes, and some biblical references to plagues thus far.
So if you like sci-fi type fiction it might be one to pick up and read just for kicks. |
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Sparky
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Location: Missing my Toe Socks | So what is the name of this book? Did I miss it? I see who the author is...    |
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| BarO is this Swan Song that you are reading? |
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Location: North Carolina |
Sounds like "Swan Song". Excellent book that I liked even better than "The Stand." |
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Extreme Road Warrior
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Location: Michigan | Yes, Swan Song. I really like it. Are his others just as good? |
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Location: North Carolina | Swan Song remains his best. I've read a few of his others (Wolf's Hour, Night Boat, Stinger, Boy's LIfe) and enjoyed them all but not as much as Swan Song. Of course, you've got to like that genre, too. Not everyone wants to read a novel about a werewolf spy in World War II. ;) |
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OT but I thought it was interesting
