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Summary: We never let this book come true.
Review: We were required to read "On the Beach" for our English class and thought it would a boring book. But, after I finshed I was shocked. How could we create such horrible weapons? If it were the end I think going out in a fireball on a race track would the best way to go.
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Summary: a chilling apocalyptic tale
Review: i recently read this book for the fourth time. i first read the book when i was 18. i am now 34. the book was as engrossing and chilling the fourth time i read it as it was the first time. from the first word until the final tragic ending, i could not put the book down. each time i have read the book, i have done so in one sitting. i must say that "on the beach" and "the stand" by stephen king are by far the best works of fiction i have read...
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Summary: No other book has made me cry so much...
Review: I think the reason I was so emotional over this book was because when I read it, the threat of nuclear war was weighing on us every day. Years later, I still remember it vividly. It was so chilling, even more so than any horror novel. I felt very lucky to be alive and appreciated my life much more after reading it.
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Summary: I encourage you to read this novel!
Review: I read this book 5 years ago and I still remember the story like yesterday! It's books like this one that should be required reading in school. It was truely a wonderful story that will keep you interested until the end.
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Summary: It is good
Review: I like this book Xena rule
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Summary: I'll never forget this book!
Review: I was sixteen when I read "On the Beach." It was required reading, and when I finished, I was sitting in my civic's class, but for a moment I wasn't sure where I was. The story was so captivating, I thought I was experiencing the end of the world myself. Thirty three years later and I still remember this novel as one of the best stories I have ever read. It makes you appreciate life and love and how it can all end suddenly.
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Summary: The only book that ever made me cry like a baby.
Review: This is the kind of novel that scares you to death when you realize that it really is not that far fetched. You want it to be a Stephen King, but it is much more terrifyingly realistic than that.
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Summary: A book that defines "I couldn't put the book down."
Review: Nevil Shute brings out the devastating truth of the victims of a nuclear war. The book is slow in the beginning, introducing characters and setting the plot, but less than half way throught the book I could not tear myself away. It is a clear picture presented to humanity about the devastion of a nuclear holocaust, and also brings in the thought of choosing one's own death.
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Summary: Slow and rather predictable, but worth a quick read...
Review: If you want to read a decent anti-war novel and you don't have much else to do on a gray and rainy day, pick this one up. It's somewhat dated, but at the same it speaks some truth about human behavior when faced with the end of the world.The characters' behavior isvery predictable. And they are somewhat one-dimensional cut-outs from the 50's-60's era. However, the reader is still captivated by the submarine crew's search for life in North America.
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Summary: Complete and Utter Excellence! Absolutely Astounding!
Review: My mother first recommended this book to me not long after I had seen the movie "The Day After". I can rightly say that I have never been so emotionally gripped by a novel. I couldn't bear to ever put it down. Now, enough of my gushing, here's the real dirt on why this is one of the most phenomenal novels ever to tackle the subject of Nuclear War: It addresses the topic of a nuclear war not in the context of techno-thriller explosions, but in the context of the horror of is aftermath. Once all the political and military hotheads have finished blowing each other to pieces, all that is left to do is come to terms with the disaster and it implications (a topic made even more timely by the recent nuclear testings by India and Pakistan). The one aspect of "On the Beach" that had a profound emotional impact on me was how the last remaining survivors cope with reality of what has happened. Some panic, while others cling to the unrealistic hope that the disaster is not as bad as they thought. Soon, this all gives way to melancholy emotion of accepting the inevitable. While death is common in everyday life, it is tempered by the knowledge that life will go on. The saddest and most profound emotion Shute creates is the despair in knowing that after death, there will no longer be life.
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