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I guess when you write a book over 900 pages long, you feel entitled to add in a number of subplots along the way. No, Mr. Williams: all you do is encourage your would be reader to lay down their copy of the book, to never return. (Or even worse, lay down the copy of the book they were perusing in a bookstore and walk off without the book!!)
Okay, enough whining. Despite the hours of my vacation that were absorbed in too many words, I still really like the book. I have, of course, read other the-world-is-ending books, but this particular book actually spends way more time on what happens after the disaster and how the initial survivors develop their own internal strength and skills to make a good stab at saving themselves. The other group, those waiting around to be saved, are not. The descriptions of the destruction seen on and around the Mississippi River and the nuclear facility are completely real.
I was present during earthquakes in So. Cal. in the 60's and 70's;
one was over 8.0. I saw the layers in a 3-level freeway sandwich on each other which came down during very early rush hour. There were no survivors crawling out from between the layers.
The point of this long detour is simply to demonstrate how real Mr. Williams' descriptions are. Book is impressive in its scope; however, do not read it while depressed.
Okay, enough whining. Despite the hours of my vacation that were absorbed in too many words, I still really like the book. I have, of course, read other the-world-is-ending books, but this particular book actually spends way more time on what happens after the disaster and how the initial survivors develop their own internal strength and skills to make a good stab at saving themselves. The other group, those waiting around to be saved, are not. The descriptions of the destruction seen on and around the Mississippi River and the nuclear facility are completely real.
I was present during earthquakes in So. Cal. in the 60's and 70's;
one was over 8.0. I saw the layers in a 3-level freeway sandwich on each other which came down during very early rush hour. There were no survivors crawling out from between the layers.
The point of this long detour is simply to demonstrate how real Mr. Williams' descriptions are. Book is impressive in its scope; however, do not read it while depressed.
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