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jeshyrOK, I just watched 'The Road' last week and yes it was a good movie in terms of movie making and all that but OMG IT WAS SO DEPRESSING. And I hated the unclear ending because basically all of the possibilities there were for how it could resolve were depressing too. [ObFangirl: OTOH Viggo Mortensen is always nice to look at...]
And I remember on the first post a bunch of people were saying they have read S M Stirling's Emberverse/Nantucketverse stories and that they were rather like fanfic. And yes they certainly are, more so as the story goes along and it veers into the realms more of fantasy than reality-with-Apocalypse, but I really enjoyed them all.
And I have read Parable Of The Sower which has a positive ending and that was the first post-apocalypse book I'd ever read and I literally got to the end and started at the beginning again I found it so brilliant! I really touched something inside me. I have started reading Parable of the Talents but I don't think I ever got to the end, although that may have had more to do with my RL circumstances at the time than the book itself. I should try it again but I have a feeling I got stuck when it looked like the ending would be really depressing...
I was wondering if others had the same experience - that if the survivors look to have a decent chance at building something that will work, the book is enjoyable ... whereas if it's just a slow decent into decay and death then it's just depressing. What do you find?
Cheers,
Ricky
And I remember on the first post a bunch of people were saying they have read S M Stirling's Emberverse/Nantucketverse stories and that they were rather like fanfic. And yes they certainly are, more so as the story goes along and it veers into the realms more of fantasy than reality-with-Apocalypse, but I really enjoyed them all.
And I have read Parable Of The Sower which has a positive ending and that was the first post-apocalypse book I'd ever read and I literally got to the end and started at the beginning again I found it so brilliant! I really touched something inside me. I have started reading Parable of the Talents but I don't think I ever got to the end, although that may have had more to do with my RL circumstances at the time than the book itself. I should try it again but I have a feeling I got stuck when it looked like the ending would be really depressing...
I was wondering if others had the same experience - that if the survivors look to have a decent chance at building something that will work, the book is enjoyable ... whereas if it's just a slow decent into decay and death then it's just depressing. What do you find?
Cheers,
Ricky
