en-US Sat, 08 Jan 2022 23:32:57 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 27778014 These compelling visions of post-apocalyptic societies and dystopian worlds include short stories by some of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Among the noteworthy contributors and their works are Stephen King's "The End of the Whole Mess," "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke's "No Morning After."
The first-ever apocalyptic fantasy about global warming, "The End of the World," appears here, in translation from Eugene Mouton's 1872 French-language original. "The Pretence," by Ramsey Campbell, questions the nature and structure of everyday life in the aftermath of a doomsday prediction. In addition, thought-provoking stories by Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Greg Bear, Erica L. Satifka, and others offer an end-of-the-world extravaganza for fans of science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
"These doomsday tales are highly original, thought provoking, and reality questioning. Recommended as a collection for fans of intriguing and eccentric sci-fi!" � Read Well]]> 304 Stephen King 0486802310 Amy 0 dnf 3.51 2016
author: Stephen King
name: Amy
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2022/01/08
shelves: dnf
review:
Spent almost 4 hours over almost 2 weeks slogging through this, and it’s just not doing it for me. I had already read the Stephen King story. The others are all far too sci-fi for me, I guess.
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But she doesn’t know why she feels so different from the other girls at school; why the line between love and pain can be so hard to see. Or why making a friend may be the bravest and most terrifying thing she has ever done.

Sometimes the people you’re supposed to trust are the ones who do most harm. And what you’ve been taught to fear is the very thing that will save you…]]> 417 Gabriel Tallent 0735211175 Amy 0 dnf 3.55 2017
author: Gabriel Tallent
name: Amy
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/09/16
shelves: dnf
review:
Not right now, maybe not ever. DNF @ 7%. Incest like some male pedo fantasy. Yuck
]]> 18594633 The blistering, compulsively readable new novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Dinner.

When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the stars, Marc can't hide from the truth forever.

It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier’s extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations are revealed, and suddenly no one can be trusted. As the ultimate holiday soon turns into a nightmare, the circumstances surrounding Ralph’s later death begin to reveal the disturbing reality behind that summer’s tragedy.

Featuring the razor-sharp humor and acute psychological insight that made The Dinner an international phenomenon, Summer House with Swimming Pool is a controversial, thought-provoking novel that showcases Herman Koch at his finest.]]> 389 Herman Koch 0804138818 Amy 0 dnf 3.41 2011
author: Herman Koch
name: Amy
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/01/24
shelves: dnf
review:
Nope. This is not for me. DNF pg 25.
]]> 28449076 Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials.

The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.

Speaking loudly and emphatically, adolescent girls stood at the center of the crisis. Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were at risk. She illuminates the demands of a rigorous faith, the vulnerability of settlements adrift from the mother country, perched-at a politically tumultuous time-on the edge of what a visitor termed a "remote, rocky, barren, bushy, wild-woody wilderness."

With devastating clarity, the textures and tensions of colonial life emerge; hidden patterns subtly, startlingly detach themselves from the darkness. Schiff brings early American anxieties to the fore to align them brilliantly with our own. In an era of religious provocations, crowdsourcing, and invisible enemies, this enthralling story makes more sense than ever.

The Witches is Schiff 's riveting account of a seminal episode, a primal American mystery unveiled-in crackling detail and lyrical prose-by one of our most acclaimed historians.]]> 512 Stacy Schiff Amy 0 dnf 3.22 2015
author: Stacy Schiff
name: Amy
average rating: 3.22
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/03/15
shelves: dnf
review:

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Despite the ridiculousness of the whole thing so far, I was determined to finish this. And then they attacked the monkeys. Done.]]> 4.01 1812
author: Johann David Wyss
name: Amy
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1812
rating: 0
read at: 2017/06/12
date added: 2018/10/19
shelves: dnf
review:
DNF @ 55%.

Despite the ridiculousness of the whole thing so far, I was determined to finish this. And then they attacked the monkeys. Done.
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