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Living Is Forever
When catastrophic events shake the planet, a small band of idealists works to create a new Earth of peace and justice.
408 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1990
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December 4, 2013
I paid each of children $20 when they were in middle school to read this book.Its the only one I did this with because I felt it broaden their world view in a way that would serve them greatly in the difficult years to come.
October 7, 2020
This is a bit of a strange apocalyptic fiction book. It has an introduction from the author that I wish I hadn't read, or at least read after the main story - it didn't contain any spoilers but it did make me doubt the motivation for writing the book at all, and that was in the back of my mind the whole time.
A young lady has a sort of vision/dream where she meets a mysterious old man (I pictured him as Morgan Freeman for some reason) and spends months (years?) looking for him in real life. When she finds him, he warns her of a future disaster where she will play a part. This leads her to attend a sort of training camp which teaches a weird mixture of survivalism and new age hippy stuff. She doesn't know what the disaster will be, but of course is does happen. The rest of the book is the usual stuff about people trying to survive.
Parts of this book are quite good and it's fairly realistic in that there aren't any zombies or mutants or anything, and people mostly behave in a realistic manner. It's well written and the story is interesting. However, there is one major plot point that made me wonder what the author was thinking (basically the introduction of the character Max, which you'll know when you read it!). There's also A LOT of talk about committees, policies, government etc. etc. that just seems crazy to me given the state of things that they're trying to rescue. The main characters spend way too much time worrying about stuff like the constitution and frameworks for creating laws and so on. Yawn.
So, some good ideas and a mostly decent book, but some wacky bits and some tedious bits.
A young lady has a sort of vision/dream where she meets a mysterious old man (I pictured him as Morgan Freeman for some reason) and spends months (years?) looking for him in real life. When she finds him, he warns her of a future disaster where she will play a part. This leads her to attend a sort of training camp which teaches a weird mixture of survivalism and new age hippy stuff. She doesn't know what the disaster will be, but of course is does happen. The rest of the book is the usual stuff about people trying to survive.
Parts of this book are quite good and it's fairly realistic in that there aren't any zombies or mutants or anything, and people mostly behave in a realistic manner. It's well written and the story is interesting. However, there is one major plot point that made me wonder what the author was thinking (basically the introduction of the character Max, which you'll know when you read it!). There's also A LOT of talk about committees, policies, government etc. etc. that just seems crazy to me given the state of things that they're trying to rescue. The main characters spend way too much time worrying about stuff like the constitution and frameworks for creating laws and so on. Yawn.
So, some good ideas and a mostly decent book, but some wacky bits and some tedious bits.
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