Does this book exist? Help please.

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So - I want a book.

I want it to be a huge and well written and gripping post-apocolyptic novel.

I want to not have read it already and that is where the problem starts!

Have read-
The Stand - the best imho
The Handmaid's Tale - liked it
The Road -didn't think much of it
Cell - better 2nd time around but not a patch on The Stand
I Am Legend - ok
The Knife Of Never Letting Go series - v good
Brother In The Land - loved it as a teen
On The Beach - liked
The Passage - liked a lot and will read again before the next one comes out
Oryx And Crake - didn't like much
The Flood - liked a lot

SO does what I want exist please? :)

Sorry: that sounded really ungrateful.

Thank you for taking time to answer and ignore me because I am an ultra-fussy and grouchy reader.

Failed totally with Jonathon Strange - I just found it really boring.

The Rapture, by Liz Jensen? I haven't read it (yet), but I've read some of her other books and found them vivid, gripping and funny too.

I've read it! Not as good as some of her others but not bad - it gets a bit silly in places but I forgave her overall. I really liked The Ninth Life Of Louis Drax.

Can't really say that I was that impressed by John Twelve Hawks 'Traveller'. I read it right before 'The Passage' and it paled into insignificance by comparison. The characters are too two dimensional and I found I just didn't care if lived or died.

Steinbeck, East of Eden, amazing.
Victor Pevelin, The Clay Machine Gun
The Golem, European Classics
Insomnia, King
Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin
I have read a lot more but these are my favorites. Also have a look in the library see if they can suggest things or look at amazon they have people who have bought what you have and have bought this, i find that helpful.

Read The Golem, East Of Eden and Insomnia.

Thanks for the other suggestions though.

DH has a view Jonny got his gun and Girlfriend in a coma, he read them ages ago and never forgot them.

Have read Girlfriend In A Coma. Not heard of t'other'un before.

Doris Lessing's 'Mara and Dann'?

Its a war novel Jonny got his gun, read it with persuasion amazing very moving and disturbing. DH is in Navy so these books speak to him, and that book was amazing and moving and it scared me and made me think hard about sacrifice for war. Sorry but it hit me and i am grateful for that experience.

Death and the penguin and clay machine gun are Russian i think and very challenging and a bit trippy i guess also made me think.

Also just read a short history of tractors in ukraine. Very funny.

Ooh the Doris Lessing could be worth a try. The Johnny Gun one looks interesting too.

I didn't like the Tractors one, although I admit I didn't finish it. I found it annoying rather than funny, sorry.

Brian Lumley's Necroscope Series is pretty good, especially the first couple of books

Not post apocolyptic in any way but still a great read

Ta.

So - the library didn't have ANY of the ones that dp went in for and couldn't even order most of them.

I HATE spending money on fiction because so much of it is so, so rubbish - but I may have to get Riddley Walker from Amazon.

surfacing margret attwood
handmaids tale

Read THT - is 'Surfacing' another Attwood?

Try "A Canticle for Leibowitz"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

Thank you -Somebody recommended that to me before and I'd forgotten, so thanks for reminding me.

Stephen King's new hardback got released two days ago or so, "Full Dark, No Stars". It's the long story/novella type he does so well.

Have got "The Hunger Games" to on my to-read pile.

I started a similar ish thread last year which has some excellent suggestions www.mumsnet.com/Talk/adult_fiction/1029959-Apocalytpic-dystopia-fiction

Have read Full Dark, No Stars.

Thanks for the link.

the passage by justin cronin is post apocalyptic-ish

but more in a monster/vampire type of way

still good though :)

Read it - loved it.

The Postman by David Brin is really quite good. I love post-apocalyptic stuff and have read most of the above!

Jon Shannow books by David Gemmell are an easy read, but I prefer his Drenai books (not post apocalyptic)

Thanks. Not heard of those, so will need to google.

Does 'easy read' mean 'not terribly well-written' though?

Z for Zachariah. But read it as a teenager so not guaranteeing anything...