The End of the World as We Knew It eBook Nick Cole
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In the future, an artist specializing in historical records creates a piece of art based on three separate accounts of the Zombie Pandemic. What follows is a patchwork tale of survival and horror as two lovers struggle to survive the undying dead and the collapse of an America turned charnel house. Told as memos from Ground Zero, and later in the journal of a Dark Tower-like quest by train and foot across a nightmare landscape of ruined cities and raving corpses, the three accounts reveal more than just the grim realities of society’s collapse. The Notebook meets The Walking Dead in this stained glass depiction of the end of the world as we knew it.
The End of the World as We Knew It eBook Nick Cole
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The End of the World as We Knew It eBook Nick Cole Reviews
After the outbreak, after the violence, and horror of the zombie apocalypse plague - what's left?
In a book reminiscent of the Old Man and the Wasteland, Nick Cole captures the painfully numb time that follows humanity's survival after a zombie uprising. There's a lot of clean up and a lot of heart ache. Written from the perspective of various historians archiving eyewitness testimonies from the time after the gruesome final battles, this book does a wonderful job cataloging the pains and, more importantly, the things worth surviving for.
This post-apocalyptic zombie novel isn't your typical "zombie book." We tag along with 2 main characters during the early days of "The End of the World as We Knew It," seeing things directly from their perspectives. Personally, I found it to be one of the most haunting, deep, dark, yet uplifting books I've read this year. That's right -- an uplifting zombie book. Nick Cole swept me along from the very first page and then blew me away with the ending. Highly recommended.
...to quote one of the secondary characters. For less than 200 pages, this thing really packs a wallop. Nearly every page is a gut-punch, whether it's from the descriptions of a brutal war against the undead that makes World War Z look like a Sunday picnic, or the unvarnished look into the heart of a guy who's lost everything (and has the chance to discover it all again).
Insert gushing praise here I think I might have a man-crush on Nick Cole. This is the second thing I've read by him, after the masterful Wasteland Saga, and I think I can now say I'll read anything by him I can get my hands on. You don't write a trilogy like Wasteland, with its spare, powerful prose, and then follow it up with the poetry of TEOTWAWKI, by accident. The man has skills.
This novella has some of the coolest set pieces and imagery I've come across - the thought of frantically scrambling up through the levels of a skyscraper, trying to stay one step ahead of a zombie horde as they literally come through the floor after you will stay with me for quite a while. The characters are raw and brutal and real. The story is dark and uplifting at the same time. Plus, Mr. Cole is a romantic and wears it on his sleeve unashamedly, which is mighty cool, I think.
Just to close this out, I'll say If this is the future of zombie fiction, may it continue for the next century!
This author is a jerk, he does terrible things to his readers, and I have a genuine grudge against him.
I first started reading his books because I enjoy science fiction, and his name happened to come up. He does excellent science fiction. Soda Pop Soldier is a masterpiece of tension and believable dystopian fiction. As I wanted to read more it became apparent that his main thing is zombies and particularly zombie survival, that genre that takes zombie jump-scare movies and turns it into a wrenching, personal experience.
I hate zombies. I hate zombie survival. This is my least favorite genre. It's miserable and bleak, uninteresting at best and tedious at worst. But I gritted my teeth and agreed to try one of his zombie books because it was free. The worst part was that I actually enjoyed it, The Red King. This author took the worst genre and made a story that not only interested me, but ensnared my attention and held me captivated throughout.
I hated that. I hate zombies. I don't want to be that guy who suggests another tired zombie-genre work to someone. But at least The Red King had guns and action, it was about a crew coming together and overcoming the odds to become badass zombie killers. With a castle. Cool.
So I pick up another of his books, this one. Again, he made it free. At least I'm not spending money on zombie trash, I tell myself. In this book, he drags his readers through a zombie apocalypse but this time from the perspective of innocent bystanders with no special skills. They're not destined to become badass zombie slayers wielding automatic shotguns with chainsaw bayonets. These are tired, scared, sad people who are at least as worried about their own survival in a grisly war zone as they are about the damaged relationship with the person they love and have wronged, and reconnecting with them even just one last time to set things right.
This is a love story, the most savage and unbearable and uncomfortable and miserable, cowardly, dirty, corpse-shoveling, mass-grave, human catastrophe love story I've yet read. The love comes through brighter and brighter the worse the story gets. Through a lens saturated in vividly realized post-traumatic stress disorder, we see two people with genuine love work to make contact across a waking nightmare in a world gone mad.
I resented this author for making me care so much about a story set in a genre I hate, with two of the most human characters I've ever encountered. The voices are devastatingly, heartbreakingly, triumphantly genuine.
The ending is satisfying. No spoilers here. Leading up to it, I wondered strongly how it could possibly be okay. A cheesy sort of "Surprise, everything's okay!" twist? An artsy ending with no resolution? Bleak and horrible, unbearable and unendurable in its condemnation of hope? None of these. Hopeful, and triumphant. Like I said, satisfying.
This author made me genuinely care about characters in a genre I hate, twice. Not sure I can forgive him for that. But I sure as hell am gonna pick up that next zombie book of his, The Dark Knight. I'm even paying money for it, for zombie trash. I'm not sure how to feel about that. But I've trusted him this far, may as well finish the ride. Maybe I'll hate this one and be free to loathe the genre again.
Complete zombie apocalypse tale told ex post facto in three acts by voice, journal and interview relating what essentially becomes a twisted love story. Plight of woman was told in jarring fashion speaking into a cell phone, running for her life while medicating with large quantities of booze evidenced by passages like, "(Male Voice) Floor it! Straight into the mall! (Explosion) (Chain Gun) VOICE MEMO 26 Jason, we're inside the mall now,,," Jason himself has a harrowing if exhaustive encounter with the dead written in journal fashion as he climbs the tower to evade becoming a victim to cannibals, later taking a train cross country while loosing members of his army escort one by one and climaxing in an all-out desperate attempt to stop a wave of zombies headed their way in California (Loved the passage "Could you read this and tell me if I deserve to die?") Finishes with a flourish (not going to say how less I spoil it) but let's just say I'll never think about Sam Cooke's song "Wonderful World" in the same way after reading this book. Very good read and I did enjoy!
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