On the Beach was one of the few books I decided to stop reading partway through. The inevitability of the outcome was too depressing.
On the Beach was one of the few books I decided to stop reading partway through. The inevitability of the outcome was too depressing.
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I managed to finish it but don’t think the movie could give the book justice....
much like “Catch 22” - I couldn’t stand the movie but book was great....
Guess in both of them just too much going on for a movie to capture the true spirit of the writer...
On the Beach was written to scare and depress, not exactly to inform. Shute either didn’t take radioactivity decay/half-life into account or didn’t find it convenient to his plot.