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Definitely sounds good...
You get moved in yet Grady? Be at breakfast Saturday? |
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No, I haven't moved into the house yet. After jury duty and catching up with the work missed the snow came...
I will definitely be at the breakfast Saturday.
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No narrator, at least that I remember.
Very true to the book, no special effects (I read that they did screen out some greenery, changing it to brown in a few scenes.) Filmed at Mt. St. Helens devastation, abandoned Penn turnpike and NJ abandonded neighborhoods. A man's love for his son. The movie seemed more hopeful at the end than the book for reasons I won't discuss here. I'm still puzzled at what could happen that would kill all vegetation, all animals, fish and birds but not humans. Last edited by tcar; 12-28-2009 at 06:01 PM.. |
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Recently finished it also. I can only remember a few books in my life that had me thinking and re-thinking about them. Certainly a depressing, hopeless story. Tugs at your heart-strings in a way that touches you deeply. Partly due to the innocence of the boy in the face of a mysteriously hopeless existence.
But, it seemed obvious that whatever apocolypse had occured, there was no vegetation left. Because the apocolypse had apparently occured some time ago (only a few souls left on Earth), and no animals, bugs, fish, etc., where did the oxygen come from to support human life? No vegetation, no oxygen....no? Maybe I missed something in 8th grade science class. In any case, I just ordered MacCormack's trilogy off Amazon. I'm hooked on his writing. This is not fiction-trash a la David Baldocchi, Clive Cussler, etc. MacCormack is literature in it's truest sense. Impressive writing beyond my expectations.
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Dude... Its literature.... They get to ignore all laws of biology, physics, and chemistry....
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