The Stand is excellent as well. Only book that kept me up for a whole 3 day weekend. I actually finished it in 3 days and I never read a book that fast.
The TV movie wasn’t that bad either.
“Down to a Sunless Sea” is another good end of the world-y book.
“...“Down to a Sunless Sea” is another good end of the world-y book...”
I will have to look into that one. “Swan Song” by Robert McCammon is a really good horror/post-apocalypse story as well.
Ever wonder what it is about that genre of book/movie that’s so compelling?? It’s sort of like the Zombie / Dawn of the Dead-type stories as well....(for me at least)...there’s something horribly fascinating about the “Well, what the Hell WOULD you do IF this actually happened...?” aspect.
But it’s actually not too hard to imagine - Katrina in New Orleans gave us a taste of what happens when society degenerates to its lowest common denominator.
I think that’s the REAL terrifying thing - the knowledge that those types of animals are out there, waiting for something catastrophic to happen, and dancing on the grave of society after it does...
And one more, and closer to reality - check out “Patriots” by James Wesley-Rawles.
No catastrophic asteroid strike - just an ecomonic monetary collapse and destruction of the system.
Hits very close to home - especially now with the assclowns we have running the country into the ground. Worth your time to read it, if you haven’t.