Alas, Babylon

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Summary: This book is great
Review: There is something about people's struggle to survive and doing the unthinkable that makes this book so great. You realize that this can always happen and it makes you think how strong you will be if this actually did happen to you.

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Summary: Excellent story....
Review: I read this book when it first came out.. and actually saw the Playhouse 90 TV version!!! No videotape in those days! This is a brilliant study of what could have been.

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Summary: Memorable!
Review: I read this book over 35 years ago. I read it annually when I moved to central Florida in the 70's. Lately, for some reason, I have been remembering the book (long lost). Glad to have found it again at Amazon. It was so real and realistic that during the "cold war" it would have served as THE practical guide to survival.

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Summary: Theme of societal breakdown and its effect on human nature
Review: Great book outlining nuclear war, and the underlying theme of how human nature caused nuclear war and how it continues to cause trouble in the form of the highway men. Theme is much like that in "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. When society breaks down, people act more on their animal like whims than using there brains. Uses much irony to get across point. In the satire range of the circle of stories (which includes tradgedy, romance, satire/irony, and romance

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Summary: A stunning book.Survival is the stongest human instinct
Review: My father gave me this book in 1976, I was a senior in high school. I was riveted. I read it in one day. I have read it 2 or 3 times since. There have been many books written about the nuclear apocalypse, but they have all paled in comparison.

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Summary: I am teaching this wonderful little gem of a book.
Review: I am a high school English teacher and I'm teaching this novel for the first time. Young adults seem to love it as much as I did. As for comments such as, "it has a slow start" I have to remind students that every novel has exposition to give the reader background and the first 50 pages of most books is a chore. Once you hit page 90, you won't want to put this book down. The very best part of this novel is that P. Frank has the ability to make you want to hear the next civil defense update just as the characters in the novel want to hear updates. You are pulled into the events of the novel and taken on a ride along with the characters - always anxious to hear the next update of the world, the new President, Mark, etc. A good high school novel - easy to read and understand, fun to discuss.

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Summary: Alas Babylon
Review: This book has got game yo! If you want to read a book that you can get jiggy with, this is the one. From start to finish I was hooked

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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read!!!
Review: The one new thing that I can say about this book is that I have had seven copies so far that I have loaned to friends and family, and every time the book gets lost. This is the first book that I ever gave to my mother, she then loaned it to her friends who loaned it to their friends... you can see what happens. Every one that I know who has read this book has loved it. The funniest reaction I have recieved was from a friend who read the last page and was so surprised by the ending line that she threw the book against the wall...and then sat down to read it again.

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Summary: read this kids
Review: if you ever think of a nuke war you probably think of the death and distruction .but not of how the suvivors live on a day to day basis.this almost 40 year old book will show you things you never dreamed of. read this book and give it to your children to read, it is an eye opener steve felkner

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Summary: Alas Babylon - I wonder if this could ever happen!

Review: Yes, I know this book is boring in the being and you don't want to read it, but by page 150, it gets really good. I am 14 years old, a Freshman in high school, and I had to read this book as a report. I didn't want to because it was to boring, but now I can't put it down. It's amazing how some people survive without things that people really need in life to survive( I am not telling any of you what they lost, or if anyone died). It makes me wonder if this could ever happen, plus it so close to home. I advise everyone to read it, and I think you all will enjoy it.