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Goodbye World/It's a Disaster
Re: Goodbye World/It's a Disaster
by Lore » Sat 10 Jan 2015, 22:39:50
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'M')y favorite's The Road (both the novel and the film).
You know, I never read the book or saw that movie. It just seems so depressing.
Real life has enough sh*t going on, I don't like too much misery in my fiction actually. It's got to have something uplifting in it, and that's the elements of any story line anyway, man vs. man or man vs. nature, some problem to overcome, protagonist suffers horribly, changes, and overcomes in the end.
I think the Road is just a bunch of miserable, is it not?
No, not at all! In the end a recently orphaned boy is adopted by a nice young family of cannabals.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
... Theodore Roosevelt
... Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Goodbye World/It's a Disaster
by ralfy » Sat 10 Jan 2015, 23:10:26
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Except for the cliche about how nobody has a gun or they have The Gun With One Bullet. In post-apocalyptic America, everyone would be toting as much guns and ammo as they cared to haul around with them. The survivors would be knee-deep in guns.
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Except for the cliche about how nobody has a gun or they have The Gun With One Bullet. In post-apocalyptic America, everyone would be toting as much guns and ammo as they cared to haul around with them. The survivors would be knee-deep in guns.
The event might have taken place longer after the breakdown of a JIT system which allows for only a few days' worth of not only ammo but also of food, medicine, and fuel for each town and city.
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Re: Goodbye World/It's a Disaster
by PrestonSturges » Sat 10 Jan 2015, 23:26:05
On that note, I just inherited several pistols - a .38 taurus snubbie, a S&W .22 revolver with 6" barrel and capable of taking game, a little American made Walther .22 in stainless, and one of those tiny North American Arms .22 revolvers. I also got back the .22 bolt action I learned to shoot as a child, and that never goes out of style. A pretty good survival arsenal right there.
Also about a lb and a half of junk silver coins, mostly "Mercury" dimes and Liberty half dollars.
Also about a lb and a half of junk silver coins, mostly "Mercury" dimes and Liberty half dollars.
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Re: Goodbye World/It's a Disaster
by Sixstrings » Sun 11 Jan 2015, 01:21:36
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', '\')No, not at all! In the end a recently orphaned boy is adopted by a nice young family of cannabals.
Ha.. is it really that bad? I almost bought the book, I am a doomer after all, but from what I can figure out this Road thing is just too damn depressing why would I want to read that.
Basic story elements:
There's gotta be some problem and a protagonist and antagonist and that can be man vs. man or man vs. nature, or man vs. self. Character has to suffer, struggle, and change. With something uplifting at the end of it or some resolution of the dilemma in the story.
As far as I can tell, "the Road" is not a story. If it's just a guy and his kid wandering through the apocalypse and they both die, then what's the point of watching that, I honestly don't get it.
Last depressing book I read: "Into the wild." That had some good stuff in it, thought provoking, then he's just starving to death in that trailer in Alaska. And that's it. I guess you have to be a in mood for these things, like that documentary about the treehugger in Alaska that thought he was a friend to all the bears until one ate him.
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