If you know me, you know I love end of the world movies. You know I love movies (and stories) about worlds dying, about people in the slide of it. You know, that over the last couple of years -- maybe it's Katrina, maybe it's our president, maybe it's being happy, maybe it's just being older -- all that stuff has gotten harder for me to look at, fiction though it may be.
Which is why these excerpts collected by
insomnia from
stelpa's journal are utterly, completely shocking in their familiarity and completely, totally, freaking me out.
http://insomnia.livejournal.com/834697.html
Which is why these excerpts collected by
http://insomnia.livejournal.com/834697.html
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Date: 2008-10-15 09:31 pm (UTC)He spelled it Nevil Shute. His Trustee From The Toolroom is one of the finest novels ever written, IMHO.