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jfz9580m

(15,861 posts)
1. I support post-apoplectic books
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 09:35 PM
Monday

;-/..
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 Monday OP
I support post-apoplectic books jfz9580m Monday #1
I enjoyed Make Room! Make Room! The Blue Flower Monday #2
Thanks jfz9580m Monday #3
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. PoindexterOglethorpe Tuesday #7
Thabks jfz9580m Tuesday #8
You and I need to spend some time talking. PoindexterOglethorpe Tuesday #9
The Stand, by Stephen King rickyhall Monday #4
That's always been one of my favorites FoxNewsSucks Monday #5
The unedited version was bloated and boring. PoindexterOglethorpe Tuesday #10
Not sure how many pages, FoxNewsSucks Monday #6
I assume you read the classic from 1959 by Pat Frank... Pluvious Tuesday #11
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