Comments on: Book Review: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

By: Joint Review: Ashfall by Mike Mullin | The Book Smugglers

Joint Review: Ashfall by Mike Mullin | The Book Smugglers — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:35:09 +0000

[...] of the apocalypse is very similar to the wasteland of The Road and the volcanic ash-caked world of Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone. These titles from McCarthy and Pfeffer are breathtaking, harrowing, [...]

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By: Nancy Ampuero

Nancy Ampuero — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:10:47 +0000

okay. im not much for the apocyleptic kind of books the first time i tried reading this book i couldnt do it i finished like pg 100 however i am rereading it and now your review has certainly given me a whole new perspective on the book. thankfully i am already half way done with no thoughts of stopping.

By: Gerd Duerner

Gerd Duerner — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:10:44 +0000

Ah well, if you're a sucker for Post Apocalyptic I'd say it might be worth for you to track down Gabrielle Lord's novel Salt. It has a great Mad Max like setting and other than the much lauded The City not long after (don't remember the authors name for that right off) I thought it to be a actually thrilling read.

By: SciFiGuy

SciFiGuy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:56:00 +0000

This has gone on my Xmas list. Your recommendation was the clincher.

By: Thea

Thea — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:03:00 +0000

Meljean–while I was reading LAWKI, I kept thinking about how you called it “THE ROAD Lite” :p I have to agree with you–but I think LAWKI speaks to me on a deeper level than THE ROAD did, and that probably does have to do with the presence of hope.

Although, I gotta admit that I though Ms. Pfeffer was pulling some punches. But believe me–the dead and the gone completely rid me of that illusion. It’s waaaaay darker. I’ll have a review up tomorrow

Marg–definitely give this book a try! I hope you enjoy it

By: Marg

Marg — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:45:00 +0000

I have heard such good things about this book!

By: meljean brook

meljean brook — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:28:00 +0000

Heh, I was just thinking about this book again today (mostly because I had a dream about zombies last night). It's going on my list of best reads for this year, too.

I'm not usually a fan of the first person POV or diary entries, and yet this worked for me, too. I haven't read the companion book yet, but I'll probably hurry that up now.

And I think you summed up the difference between THE ROAD and LAWKI perfectly: hope. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone who liked THE ROAD but couldn't take how depressing it was.

By: Thea

Thea — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:38:00 +0000

Hehe, my pleasure Kris! If you can’t spend money on books, what can you spend it on? (I talk big here, and yet still have to smuggle in books, undetected by the eyes of the wary boyfriend.) Ana and I are the worst sort of enablers!

You picked up a great group of books there–I cannot wait to see what you think of them I hope you enjoy LAWKI!

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:07:00 +0000

Get thee behind me, Thea! I would say thanks for the link to The Nile B/store, but I just spent a bucket of $$ on LAWKI, Wicked Lovely, Poison Study and another book so I could make it over the $65 free shipping threshhold. Darn it! Oh well. *g*