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Don’t get me wrong—I loved my wife and I loved my kids, but that doesn’t mean to say I had to be happy about it. For me, then at least, being a husband and father meant being simultaneously exhausted and terrified. I was like a man on a cliff edge, nodding off. Love my wife. Love my kids. You have to take care with your tenses when the world ends. When I read these types of books, the primary questions in my mind are "Ok, how far will these characters go to survive, and what keeps them going? What flavor does the ending leave for both humanity and our remaining characters?"
The End of the World Running Club (The End of the World… The End of the World Running Club (The End of the World…
The words actually caught in my throat. Ridiculous. I felt dizzy, the way you do when you’re a child about to call out for your parents in the night. On the sofa, I plugged the milk bottle into Arthur’s mouth with one hand and found the remote with the other. I stopped. A small military woman who the huge bloke also disliked, though not half as much as she disliked him. We kept hammering and shouting until we saw those eyes again behind the door. Jabbar hiding. We hammered louder. Jabbar started waving us away. His eyes were set, determined, no longer the genial face of the local tradesman. We kept banging on the shutters, and Arthur and Mary joined in the game with squeals and shouts behind us. Eventually, the door behind the counter opened, and Jabbar stormed up to the shutters. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-06-10 02:02:15 Boxid IA1822822 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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I am still on my scifi binge and have not read a dystopian in a while. The End of the World Running Club hits all the right points for a dystopian but fell short over all for me and I'm blaming it on 1) the audio and 2) the ending.
The End of the World Survivors Club - Goodreads The End of the World Survivors Club - Goodreads
Zugegeben: Ich bin sowas von nicht die Zielgruppe für diese Erzählung. Als glühender Verehrer des New Yorker TOR-Verlags war ich jedoch begeistert, dass es nun eine Kooperation mit dem S. Fischer Verlag gibt und daher musste ich mir einfach die erste FISCHER-Tor-Veröffentlichung holen. So kam ich also zu den Asteroiden. Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18117 Openlibrary_edition There were many things I loved about this book. I loved the protagonist, Ed, and all his admitted flaws. He read like a solid, real person. I felt like I could reach out and touch him, he was so real. Znot basstime, Daddeee!” shouted Alice, twirling in the sunlight that was still streaming through the kitchen window. It is so frustrating to read four chapters of brilliance and then wait for that magic during the last 3/4 of the book. Only to realize as you approach the end that his boring, annoying dribble of a story is all you're going to get after the amazing start. Makes the rest of the book feel worse than it probably is.When he and his friends are out on a mission and return to discover his family have been relocated to another facility, the group sets out on a dangerous journey to rejoin his family. Ed's character arc from inviting the end of the world to running across a continent for his family was lovely. He's a morally gray character - as is everyone in a dystopian - and I liked who he became. Harvey, Bryce and Grimes were good characters too but we didn't get too much of a good look at them. The book took an appropriately deep dive into humanity in general as well as what keeps us going in the dark. Running not so much although there were a few long distance insights and I am in awe that the untrained people ran so far. The truth is I was tired of it all. I was tired of the clamor and the din of a world that made less sense by the day and a life that had me just where it wanted. The truth is that the end of the world, for me at least, came as a relief.
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