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 Member 682 Level 31.93 Mar 2006 
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Worldwide Death
Just out of curiosity, what are some of the best books in which the whole world/human race is either dying off in the beginning, and dies in the end, or begins all nice and pretty and then everything dies in the end.
In short: if the whole world is doomed and there is NO salvation in the end, what's the title and who wrote it.  Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 43 Level 18.48 Mar 2006
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Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Pretty much fits your criteria and is definitely one of my favorite books. There's nowhere I can't reach.  |
 Member 601 Level 52.11 Mar 2006
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There's also On The Beach by Nevil Shute. Of course, you're basically asking us to give away the ending, because you want a guarantee that nobody lives and everything's hopeless, and at least with On The Beach, there's a glimmer of hope for part of the book. Kind of ruins the suspense.
I'll also throw in The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's more of an allegory focusing on a man and his son, and their journey through a post-apocolyptic wasteland. Granted, the book ends on an up note of sorts, but given that everything that would live (plants, animals, humans, etc.) is dead or dying in the book, with no hope that the environment will make a turnaround, and no way to grow crops or raise animals, it's doubtful that the characters will live more than a few more years before they run out of food. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. 
Last edited by nuttyturnip; Aug 20, 2007 at 11:24 AM.
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Member 22205 Level 32.07 Apr 2007
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison, I don't want to spoil it so I'll just say that it deals with some folks living underground and a very disturbed computer. And the ending is far from happy.
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? 
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Member 1399 Level 25.03 Mar 2006
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I was speaking idiomatically. |
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