Re: Highlights and Lowlights - April 2024

On 5/2/24 5:53 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 5/1/2024 3:39 PM, Tony Nance wrote:

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Highlights and Lowlights - April 2024
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Books are listed in reverse chronological order from how I read them,
using a very primitive rating system:
“+” are good, and more “+” are better
“-“ are not good, and more “-“ are worse
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I’m happy to answer questions about anything on the list.

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( +++ - ) Earth Abides - George R Stewart
An interesting, thoughtful, and occasionally over-ponderous examination of a pandemic wiping out well over 99% of the 1949 U.S. population. Stewart clearly thought about the short- and long-term consequences of a vast, abrupt depopulation event. Ish is the protagonist, and we pretty much linearly follow his life through many generations and old age. Kind of drags in a few places, but overall it is pretty darn good.

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 Earth Abides is definitely still very good, especially for a 1949 work.
 It is tough to kill off 99% of the world's population and make it believable.
 

Most definitely - it struck me several times how broadly and thoroughly he thought about things.
Tony