pickJust a short novella, but pretty much the blueprint for so many of the plague stories out there. Disturbing in the fact that it was written over a hundred years ago and only missing the Covid years by 7 odd years… ooooo chills down my spine.
so-soIt‘s a short story, so doesn‘t take long to read. I was impressed with the guesstimate of 8 billion people on Earth in 2012 – not too far off. I never did figure out why the man cried so easily, though, at taunting from the boys. Overall, it‘s an ok story
pickThese are the types of things they should read in school! It felt as if I were listening to an old experienced man tell a story by a campfire, and the narrator did a great job at narrating the tales!It‘s very related to what‘s happened so far this year and I can only hope it doesn‘t turn out this way. First exposure to Jack London; liked it a lot. Only had an issue with the first half since it was tedious. Highly recommend 3.5 stars!
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☠Been getting into audiobooks lately! This one is going great so far 😁
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so-soIf I had read this earlier, I would have found it merely preachy & heavy-handed & not particularly well-crafted; more of a secular tract about the evils of capitalist progress but not great fiction. Reading it now, however—well, it's not fun. It's a dystopian landscape after a plague wipes out most of humanity; the man who survives was formerly a literature professor, & I will say I quite like London's sense of humour there 🙃 #pandemicreading
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The book is set in San Francisco in the year 2073, roughly 60 years after the Scarlet Plague wipes out most of humanity. The main character, Granser, was an English professor at Berkeley when the plague hit. Most of narrative consists of him telling his three primitive, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and Hare-Lip about what life was like pre-plague and attempting to educate the knuckleheads with some basic science.
I stumbled across this series on Amazon & haven't heard anyone else mention them. It's a series called Doomsday Books, published by Dover Books. It is a series of lesser known titles that have influenced post-apocalyptic & dystopian literature. I have only bought two so far, I'm planning on eventually purchasing the full series.
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