Recommend some dystopian/post apocalyptic fiction!

[Daria Morgandorffer]

Apr 24, 2014 12:26:02 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Oct 18, 2013 15:08:01 GMT -5 jillianashley6 said:

And if you, or anyone, hasn't read The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss you really really should. They are quite possibly two of my favorite books ever written. Its like Harry Potter for adults

I am reading The Name of the Wind now and am RIVETED. OMG.

The best fantasy I've read since the Wheel of Time. LOVE that series. 

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asdfjkl good to hear a review! I have it on my TBR list.

After I finish Vampire Academy. lol.

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Apr 24, 2014 12:28:28 GMT -5 Daria Morgandorffer said:

Apr 24, 2014 12:26:02 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

I am reading The Name of the Wind now and am RIVETED. OMG.

The best fantasy I've read since the Wheel of Time. LOVE that series. 

and 2curlydogs - when is Rothfuss going to finish the 3rd book? I loved the first two so, so much, and I can't wait for the 3rd to be released. 

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Apr 24, 2014 12:44:32 GMT -5 jillianashley6 said:

Apr 24, 2014 12:32:41 GMT -5 @shenanigans said:

and 2curlydogs - when is Rothfuss going to finish the 3rd book? I loved the first two so, so much, and I can't wait for the 3rd to be released. 

Ugh its not even close. I think I've heard rumors of 2015. Which makes me want to cry.

I'm so glad you are enjoying it 2curlydogs! Seriously, it is my favorite series under HP.

See that extra sucks, because I'm pretty sure that last year (when I read them both), I read in a couple places that the release date would be sometime in 2014. Which makes me wonder if next year it'll be pushed again. 

Bastard!!

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This is on goodreads: 

Dec 04, 2013Patrick added it · (Review from the author)

While it's nice to see folks out there giving this book five stars, and in some cases even reviewing it, I'll admit that I'm kinda puzzled.



After thinking it over for a while, I've realized there's only one explanation for this:



Time travelers love my books.



This is strangely reassuring, as it lets me know that, eventually, I do finish my revisions, and the book turns out good enough so that I still have a following out there in the big ball of wibbly-wobbly.... timey-wimey.... stuff that I like to think of as the future.



I would also like to say, future readers, that I appreciate your taking time to read and review my books. It's really flattering knowing that even with time-travel technology at your disposal, you'd rather read my stuff and mention it here on goodreads, rather than, say, hunt dinosaurs, get drunk with da Vinci, or pants Hitler.



Secondly, I'd like to say if you're The Doctor, and you're reading this, I would make an excellent traveling companion. I know you normally tend to hang out with pretty young women and robot dogs. And honestly? I respect that.



Still, I bring certain things to the table. Humor, witty banter, and a beard that will allow me to blend in seamlessly with any pre-industrial Germanic culture. I'm also an excellent kisser and play a mean game of Settlers of Catan.



Just throwing it out there.



Lastly, if any of you happen to have a digital copy of the book you'd like to e-mail me, I'd really appreciate it. I'd love to see the five-star version of the book, because right now, the one I'm toiling away at is about a three an a half-in my opinion. It would save me a lot of work if I could just skip to the end and publish it.



Sincerely yours,



pat

This is on the reviews page of the 3rd book. www.goodreads.com/book/show/10394348-doors-of-stone  

[2curlydogs]

Apr 24, 2014 12:55:10 GMT -5 @shenanigans said:

This is on goodreads: 

Dec 04, 2013Patrick added it · (Review from the author)

While it's nice to see folks out there giving this book five stars, and in some cases even reviewing it, I'll admit that I'm kinda puzzled.



After thinking it over for a while, I've realized there's only one explanation for this:



Time travelers love my books.



This is strangely reassuring, as it lets me know that, eventually, I do finish my revisions, and the book turns out good enough so that I still have a following out there in the big ball of wibbly-wobbly.... timey-wimey.... stuff that I like to think of as the future.



I would also like to say, future readers, that I appreciate your taking time to read and review my books. It's really flattering knowing that even with time-travel technology at your disposal, you'd rather read my stuff and mention it here on goodreads, rather than, say, hunt dinosaurs, get drunk with da Vinci, or pants Hitler.



Secondly, I'd like to say if you're The Doctor, and you're reading this, I would make an excellent traveling companion. I know you normally tend to hang out with pretty young women and robot dogs. And honestly? I respect that.



Still, I bring certain things to the table. Humor, witty banter, and a beard that will allow me to blend in seamlessly with any pre-industrial Germanic culture. I'm also an excellent kisser and play a mean game of Settlers of Catan.



Just throwing it out there.



Lastly, if any of you happen to have a digital copy of the book you'd like to e-mail me, I'd really appreciate it. I'd love to see the five-star version of the book, because right now, the one I'm toiling away at is about a three an a half-in my opinion. It would save me a lot of work if I could just skip to the end and publish it.



Sincerely yours,



pat

This is on the reviews page of the 3rd book. www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039434oors-of-stone  

I think I just fell a little bit in love.

[NewOrleans]

For dystopian fiction, I recommend the thread on Megan with a special guest author. :/

[litebright]

I love that this thread resurfaced, because boy, CEP, have I got one for you!

This gem arrived in my inbox today. "Post-constitutional dystopia" FTW!

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Who will lead America's second revolution against tyranny when in the not too distant future our constitutional heritage and freedom are stolen from us? Your audience will be captivated by Lawrence Allen's vision of just such a dystopian America.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tree Of Liberty: Who Will Lead The Second Revolution Against Tyranny?

Dallas, TX, April 24, 2014 – America has found a new champion for its constitutional freedoms. Lawrence Allen, author of Tree of Liberty, is out to win the hearts and minds of America's millennial generation, by first trekking them through one of humanity's hardest-won lessons from the past then catapulting them into the future where they are enlisted in the battle for the very survival of our republic.

Tree of Liberty chronicles the 30-year global journey of American Curtiss Bradley, who returns to an America stolen by a ruling class of D.C. patricians, having had a reversal of fortunes with China. Can he, by resurrecting the Morgan's Riflemen, launch the shot heard 'round the world in 2020 and rescue America from its post-constitutional dystopia?

In Allen's trilogy, authentic, unique and diverse characters bridge cultures, generations and even life philosophies, with profound conflicts adding a mesmerizing blend of colors. Tree of Liberty is an inspiring and engaging adventure that takes readers on a journey around the world and then back home again.

After immersing in intense first-hand accounts of the tragedies of China's recent past, readers will never look at humanity, or their own culture, in quite the same way again. Ultimately, China's state-imposed injustices serve as a cautionary tale for America's future…yes, things really can get that bad!

Lawrence Allen lived and worked in Greater China for 20 years. In the late 1980s he linked his interest in international business with his fascination for China and launched his career serving various executive roles with multinational companies, starting in Taipei, Taiwan in 1989, followed by postings in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing.

In 2010 Allen published Chocolate Fortunes: The Battle for the Hearts, Minds, and Wallets of China's Consumers (AMACOM 2010), a China business book that chronicles the quarter-century battle between the world's chocolate companies for the hearts, minds, and taste buds of China's emerging chocolate consumers.

"I am passionate about leaving the next generation with the country in better shape than we found it,” Allen says. "I hope the telling of this story will in some way help bring us together under American values.”

For more, please visit the website: www-dot-treeoflibertyusa-dot.com


__END RELEASE_, continuing my own commentary. I checked out the sample on the website because this release was just too hilarious to resist. It's every bit as bad as you're probably thinking. Here's the first two graphs, and the first page has a reference to Mt. Fuji looking like a woman's breast while she's lying on her back.

CHAPTER 1
The aromatic brew of eggs, sausage, and
coffee rolling through the airplane cabin
brought Curtiss to, like smelling salts. He
gasped his way to consciousness, only to
recoil, groaning, from it.
The severity of the ringing in his ears and
throbbing pain in his head bespake the
achievement of a new low with this
hangover.

I'm sure it will be an instant classic!

ETA: broke up the link just in case.

[wise_rita]

Oct 18, 2013 13:38:48 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

On the Beach by Nevil Shute but that one is sort of stupid.

What?! No it isn't! I love this book!

Also The Postman. Not my favourite but I'll read anything in this genre.

Also Fahrenheit 451 is good.

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Apr 26, 2014 4:44:41 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Oct 18, 2013 13:38:48 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

On the Beach by Nevil Shute but that one is sort of stupid.

What?! No it isn't! I love this book!

Also The Postman. Not my favourite but I'll read anything in this genre.

Also Fahrenheit 451 is good.

oh it's the worst.

*********SPOILERS for anyone who actually wants to read this book************





















They all have months to prepare for the coming deadly radiation and NOBODY DOES ANYTHING to even TRY to save themselves. I wanted to scream "build a fallout shelter, assholes!" the entire time. And the author continually refers to the female baby as an "it." The whole book just pissed me off.

[ESF]

Blindness by Jose Saramago is a must-read. He won the Nobel Prize shortly after it was published. It's amazing.

[wise_rita]

Apr 26, 2014 9:36:07 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

Apr 26, 2014 4:44:41 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

What?! No it isn't! I love this book!

Also The Postman. Not my favourite but I'll read anything in this genre.

Also Fahrenheit 451 is good.

oh it's the worst.

*********SPOILERS for anyone who actually wants to read this book************





















They all have months to prepare for the coming deadly radiation and NOBODY DOES ANYTHING to even TRY to save themselves. I wanted to scream "build a fallout shelter, assholes!" the entire time. And the author continually refers to the female baby as an "it." The whole book just pissed me off.

*****Spoilers******










The world is gone! It's ending and they're the last to go. What could be done? That's what I love about the book, the sit & wait aspect of it. The hopelessness and resignation.

What I thought was weird was a complete and total lack of religion. In that sort of scenario you know religion would at least cross the minds of the doomed.

Somebody else come in who's read it!

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Apr 26, 2014 16:42:03 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Apr 26, 2014 9:36:07 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

oh it's the worst.

*********SPOILERS for anyone who actually wants to read this book************





















They all have months to prepare for the coming deadly radiation and NOBODY DOES ANYTHING to even TRY to save themselves. I wanted to scream "build a fallout shelter, assholes!" the entire time. And the author continually refers to the female baby as an "it." The whole book just pissed me off.

*****Spoilers******










The world is gone! It's ending and they're the last to go. What could be done? That's what I love about the book, the sit & wait aspect of it. The hopelessness and resignation.

What I thought was weird was a complete and total lack of religion. In that sort of scenario you know religion would at least cross the minds of the doomed.

Somebody else come in who's read it!

***Spoilers****















Well, I'm being a little hyperbolic. It's not the WORST book. I agree about the religious aspect, it's interesting (and as an atheist it appealed to me actually). But I don't know, if it was the end of the world I'd like to think I would try to at least do something to help myself. It's not like they have days or even weeks. They have months. At least some of them could dig a shelter and supply it to try to outlast the radiation. It may have been futile, but I find it weird and even off-putting that they all sit back and accept their fates without even discussing any kind of survival plan. I do appreciate the perspective that the end of the world doesn't have to come with either religious fervor or chaos and rioting, but I didn't think the portrayal was very realistic. 

Have you read Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank? It's a similar scenario and was written in the same time period, but the characters' reactions are very different from those in On the Beach. I recommend it with one caveat, and that is that it's peppered with 50's-style racism and sexism, but it's still an interesting read and I liked it better than On the Beach for sure.

[wise_rita]

Apr 26, 2014 17:40:13 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

Apr 26, 2014 16:42:03 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

*****Spoilers******










The world is gone! It's ending and they're the last to go. What could be done? That's what I love about the book, the sit & wait aspect of it. The hopelessness and resignation.

What I thought was weird was a complete and total lack of religion. In that sort of scenario you know religion would at least cross the minds of the doomed.

Somebody else come in who's read it!

Have you read Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank? It's a similar scenario and was written in the same time period, but the characters' reactions are very different from those in On the Beach. I recommend it with one caveat, and that is that it's peppered with 50's-style racism and sexism, but it's still an interesting read and I liked it better than On the Beach for sure.

I haven't ever heard of this.  I'll put it on my To Read list.  On the Beach is my 3rd favorite book EVAR so if you liked that one better I might have a new contender!

[jlt19]

Apr 26, 2014 13:45:08 GMT -5 ESF said:

Blindness by Jose Saramago is a must-read. He won the Nobel Prize shortly after it was published. It's amazing.

I'm reading this right now and having a tough time getting through it. I do not like the writing style of 3 page paragraphs, 1/2 page long run-on sentences and no quotation marks ever, even during a 3+ person conversation. I read to relax and this is too much work! I do enjoy the plot line though.

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Ashes trilogy by Ilsa Bick:  total zombies, millennials vs. oldz as they fight for survival against the zombies, and gory.

[grace]

I really liked the Legend series.

[MrsAxilla]

What in the world happened to CarmenSandiego?!?!

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Jan 21, 2015 20:51:44 GMT -5 grace said:

I really liked the Legend series.

That's one series I plan to reread and maybe buy.

[grace]

Jan 21, 2015 22:35:38 GMT -5 @ladydisdain said:

Jan 21, 2015 20:51:44 GMT -5 grace said:

I really liked the Legend series.

That's one series I plan to reread and maybe buy.

Me too. I was pleasantly surprised!

[fartsinthewind]

Oct 18, 2013 14:04:03 GMT -5 margotmacomber said:

Margaret has a great trilogy starting with Oryx and Crake.  The third novel just came out recently.  I highly recommend it.

This. The Year of the Flood was fantastic. Atwood is such a talented author. She has a great writing style and her stories are very engaging.

[Nonny]

Station Eleven is kind of a six degrees of Kevin Bacon story set in a post-apocalyptic-flu world.  It a crazy blend of the arts (Shakespeare and the symphony) with the end of society as we know it, but it's more about the connections people make with each other (before and after the flu) rather than about the struggle to survive.  Low on violence, high on character development, and comes with an open ended but satisfying ending. 

[MrsAxilla]

Jan 22, 2015 9:04:34 GMT -5 deej said:

Jan 21, 2015 20:55:58 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

What in the world happened to CarmenSandiego?!?!

She's still around.  She just has a new name.

(In case this was a serious question and not just an opportunity to get the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" song in my head.)

No, I was serious!  What's her new name?  Or is it secret?

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Jan 22, 2015 9:47:27 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Jan 22, 2015 9:04:34 GMT -5 deej said:

She's still around.  She just has a new name.

(In case this was a serious question and not just an opportunity to get the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" song in my head.)

No, I was serious!  What's her new name?  Or is it secret?

I don't think it's secret? page tell me if you want me to delete this.

[doxies]

I just finished Red Rising (it was on some most underrated lists for last year). The second book in the series just came out this month. I haven't read it yet, but it got good reviews as well. I'll definitely be reading it. It's categorized as young adult because the protagonist is a 16 year old boy.

[MrsAxilla]

Jan 22, 2015 9:58:10 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

Jan 22, 2015 9:47:27 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

No, I was serious!  What's her new name?  Or is it secret?

I don't think it's secret? page tell me if you want me to delete this.

I just clicked on her name and I would have figured it out - lol.  Thanks, guys!

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Jan 21, 2015 20:55:58 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

What in the world happened to CarmenSandiego?!?!

OMFG I love your sig!!!!!!!!!!!!

My DD1 and I still regularly have Martian Monster dance parties. YOU'RE ABOUT TO BLAST OFF!!

Anyway hi

[MrsAxilla]

Jan 22, 2015 10:46:24 GMT -5 page said:

Jan 21, 2015 20:55:58 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

What in the world happened to CarmenSandiego?!?!

OMFG I love your sig!!!!!!!!!!!!

My DD1 and I still regularly have Martian Monster dance parties. YOU'RE ABOUT TO BLAST OFF!!

Anyway hi

Haha!  Halloween had a lot of gems.  THEY ATTACK!

glad you didn't GBCGBCN!

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Jan 22, 2015 10:53:24 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Jan 22, 2015 10:46:24 GMT -5 page said:

OMFG I love your sig!!!!!!!!!!!!

My DD1 and I still regularly have Martian Monster dance parties. YOU'RE ABOUT TO BLAST OFF!!

Anyway hi

Haha!  Halloween had a lot of gems.  THEY ATTACK!

glad you didn't GBCGBCN!

i was there nights 2 and 3, missed night 1 due to the kids. Such a great run!

[MrsAxilla]

Jan 22, 2015 10:58:57 GMT -5 page said:

Jan 22, 2015 10:53:24 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Haha!  Halloween had a lot of gems.  THEY ATTACK!

glad you didn't GBCGBCN!

i was there nights 2 and 3, missed night 1 due to the kids. Such a great run!

Hey, did you hear the rumors about the festie this summer?  Watkins Glenn!  Are you going to try to go?