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Aug 20, 2018JCLMelissaHH rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
"This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper." ~T.S. Eliot Indeed, it does in Nevil Shute's novel. Nuclear war would not instantly wipe out the entire human race, the suppositions go, instead condemning most of the world's population to a slow, painful death by radiation poisoning. As cities, countries, whole continents go "out," all there is to do in Melbourne, Australia is wait for the inevitable fallout. It's strange how fascinating a novel about day to day life in 1960s Australia ends up being in that dark context. If I'm looking a little groggy today, it's because I couldn't put this one down last night.