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jfz9580m

(15,958 posts)
1. I support post-apoplectic books
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 09:35 PM
Aug 25

;-/..
Auto-correct eh? I hate that thing
Coincidentally, I have been feeling post-apopletic off and on lately..but never post-apocalyptic …lol

I can’t recommend it since I haven’t read it yet. But I was intrigued by this book and bought it and plan to read it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Skin_(novel)]

And I bought and loved Harry Harrison’s “Make Room! Make Room!”. It’s the book that Soylent Green (which I have never seen) is loosely based on.

It struck me as a very realistic take on the human future at this rate. I would barely call it science fiction or even fiction. It’s the reality humans try to ignore while hoping that obviously bogus futuristic stuff or really anything but that could eventually result from the ways of a species like ours. The elites are well aware of it, hence the hoarding. Gangsters and gangsters molls heading up a society of a dazed strained crowd of humans is the future! When I read it I realized that this is my prediction of the future. A nightmarish enough one.

Lol…well this eldster has to go work..

So that’s two recs:
1. Under the Skin - Michael Faber
2. Make Room! Make Room! -Harry Harrison

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4 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

Short Attention Span [View all] yankee87 Aug 25 OP
I support post-apoplectic books jfz9580m Aug 25 #1
I enjoyed Make Room! Make Room! The Blue Flower Aug 25 #2
Thanks jfz9580m Aug 25 #3
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 26 #7
Thabks jfz9580m Aug 26 #8
You and I need to spend some time talking. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 26 #9
The Stand, by Stephen King rickyhall Aug 25 #4
That's always been one of my favorites FoxNewsSucks Aug 25 #5
The unedited version was bloated and boring. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 26 #10
Not sure how many pages, FoxNewsSucks Aug 25 #6
I assume you read the classic from 1959 by Pat Frank... Pluvious Aug 26 #11
Damage Time OrwellwasRight Aug 30 #12
Thank you yankee87 Aug 30 #13
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