#12Booksof2023. March
@Andrew65
Published in 1949 the writing did not feel dated at all and the story relevant today. 3.75 ⭐
@NataliePatalie
Published in 1949 the writing did not feel dated at all and the story relevant today. 3.75 ⭐
@NataliePatalie
⭐️⭐️⭐️ The story is interesting from a societal or psychological or maybe even anthropological view point. I was not a fan of the main character or his viewpoint on the people around him, however, experiencing the end of civilization as he knew it was intriguing. Making connections from the book to today‘s goings on, was thought provoking, and while I will not read it again, it makes for a fun book club read.
3.5🌟 I wouldn't call this an enjoyable book, exactly, but I did find it an interesting read with plenty to discuss. It made for a very good book club read. Ish, the MC, is not a likeable character, but it was fascinating to see the fall of civilization due to disease through his eyes. I'm not sure I will ever have the desire to read this again, but I am glad that I have read it.
Smokey is being very stubborn with his affection. How dare I not let him lay on both of my hands? What do I mean I need at least one hand to turn pages?
#catsoflitsy
With this passage (starting with “as for man...”) I am strongly reminded of the state of the world. I would also like to say, zombies? Can there be zombies? In the book at least?
Rain storm and reading: the perfect way to start the day.
You know you've read too much Stephen King when you can't help but notice the number 19 in the post-apocalyptic book that you are reading. Even if it was written decades before anything by King.
1. 📖 Earth Abides
2. 🖊 Jenny Erpenbeck
3. 🎥 Edge of Tomorrow
4. 🎸 ELO
5. 🎶 Eight Easy Steps
#ManicMonday
@JoScho
A very powerfully told post-apocalyptic novel with a focus on Ish's activities as he drives from San Francisco to New York and back and eventually becomes the centre of a community of survivors and on Ish's anthropologically and historically informed thoughts about people's reactions to the disaster and how the community should best face the future.
It's not an emotional book, but I did get weepy in the last 30 pages or so. An enthusiastic pick
#coffeeandabook #mycover
Perhaps not the most sensible choice of book in the present circs
On sale in US ebook stores today - the new Becky Chambers stand alone and Stewart's Earth Abides, which is one of my fav post-apoc books. Plus a lot of sci-fi and fantasy.
This is a fascinating but flawed sf classic that I‘ve wanted to read for a while and picked up because of my #bookclub. After a disease wipes out the vast majority of humanity, young geography student Ish is one of the few survivors to pick up the pieces. This book does a bad job when it comes to women, race, and disability, but a great job of considering the methods in which civilization would decay after an event like this.
...the Year That We Sang.
Can someone with a better grasp of English #grammar please explain to me what the problem is here?
Each time I read this book, I find something new to adore. I love the smart choices Stewart made with this book. He examines the fragility of civilization throughout the narrative. The story is a fun thought exercise. Although this story has a plot that has been done to death, I still think Earth Abides is one of the finest post-apocalyptic tales.
Fair warning: This book was written in 1949 and that‘s very obvious from the language used.
I‘m sitting here reading the tagged book and I look up to see this pitiful pile of beagle shaped objects looking at me. Heaven forbid Biscuit and Gravy have to use their dog bed instead of my lap. They think I‘m a tyrant. 😂 #dogsoflitsy #scifi
Also, Earth Abides is still an awesome book! 🎊
This is a re-read for me but I typically name this book in my favorites list. Time to make sure that I still love it as much as I think I do.
But in no way did civilization change life more than by sharpening the line between work and play... Men marched on picket lines and threw bricks and exploded dynamite to shift an hour from one classification to the other, and other men fought equally hard to prevent them.
Starting my latest #bookclub book. Had to get this one from the university library because the public one didn‘t have any copies.
Excited to find out what the apocalypse looked like 70 years ago.
Day 1 of #tarottakeover. Today‘s card is The Sun which represents Vitality, Invigoration and Energy.
I choose a book that deals with the dichotomy of social breakdown. On the surface Earth Abides is a post apocalyptic novel, and the break down if society as we know it, much of the book is about the Earth and nature reclaiming it‘s order. As the book says, “Men come and go, but Earth Abides.”
#Octoberphotochallenge
I've gone for a pick, as it was really engrossing, and really interesting. What if a few very normal, not particularly smart or special, people survived a worldwide plague? Beautifully written. But it's definitely dated. Women just make babies, right..? It was written in the fifties, so still worth a read, keeping in mind it's a product of it's time.
Today Daisy models my new charity shop find. Looking forward to reading this, the SF masterworks selections have been a great way for me, as a late comer to sci-fi, to find some top reads in the genre. Also a late tag for #astheworldfallsdown #septembowie @Cinfhen #dogsoflitsy
“Men go and come, but the earth abides”
This was such a mindblowing book!
I found it was a realisric perspective of how civilization might end with a lethal virus.
There was many lessons learned from how the main character lives in this post apocalyptic world.
I only regret not having put a notebook next to me while reading to note all the innumerable inspirational quotes!
I really wanted to like this book, but for some reason it just wasn't working for me. I really disliked the narrator's haughty superiority ... and I know the book was written in the fifties, but the blatant sexism just made me dislike it even more. Didn't want to waste my time slogging through something I didn't enjoy whatsoever.
This is not the actual cover I have but there are a TON of covers out there for this one. Sci-fi was and still is a favorite genre of mine. This is a classic, that is soooo amazing and accessible unlike other classics in the genre. Basically, a man goes into the woods, comes back out and everyone is dead. Then he tries to survive... #readathonblob
One of the first, and still one of the best in the post-apocalyptic genre. I first read this in high school, and recently reread it. Still taunt, exciting, detailed and an example of great story telling.