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Good post-apocalyptic movies/books for gifties?
worshipspark
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I'm looking for filler gifts for my boyfriend, because I like the Christmas morning unwrapping session to last as long as possible. He's waiting with bated breath for the inevitable apocalypse, so does anyone have any ideas for good books or movies or TV series or whatever?
He loved The Walking Dead graphic novels, and Jericho, and Jeremiah, but I am at a loss to remember what else he's seen/read recently. Anyway, thanks for the help.
He loved The Walking Dead graphic novels, and Jericho, and Jeremiah, but I am at a loss to remember what else he's seen/read recently. Anyway, thanks for the help.
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Also I'd recommend How To Survive A Robot Uprising.
The Road Warrior and Mad Max are givens, of course.
The Stand, but if he likes apocalypse he'll probably already have that/have read that.
Zombie Survival Guide is a bit dry, but it's worth it to catch the references in WWZ.
So yeah.
http://www.amazon.com/John-Dies-End-David-Wong/dp/0978970764/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229148718&sr=8-1
Edit: What the hell happened to the price of that book!?
Out of stock. It looks like it's a hard to find book.
Night of the Living Dead (2 versions, original and remake, both good)
Dawn of the Dead (2 versions, original and remake, both good)
Day of the Dead (2 versions, original and remake, the remake is terrible)
Land of the Dead
Diary of the Dead
Also "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller is supposed to be really good, but I just got it and have not read it yet, so I can not really comment on that.
the opening for this book inspired the great intro to 28 days later. Powerful stuff.
the premise sounds rather lame, but it isn't. It's nearly impossible to explain the plot of this book without it sounding super-lame, but it's great.
Here's the lame-sounding summary:
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It's a really good book, so seconding.
In a "don't let the film put you off" suggestion, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson is really good as well.
Yes, YES, and several other times yes. I'm halfway through right now and absolutely hooked.
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But the Stand is so much better. No zombies, but 98% of the world dies in the first sixth of the book.
Also, John Dies at the End is that expensive because it's currently out of print. David Wong found a new publisher, so that edition suddenly became a collector's item. Whether or not it'll actually be a collectible, I have my doubts. :P
I got bored halfway through The Stand.
As for zombies, hmm... I've heard that Max Brooks' stuff is alright. I haven't read them though. I've read Prey, by Michael Crichton. That's got nanite-controlled zombies in it. The character development is totally crap, though. It's worse than Crichton's usual array of wooden characters. Marvel Zombies is a pretty awesome comic run. You've got all the major superheroes being zombified, sentient, and wanting to eat the flesh of other people (and heroes). I'd recommend that to any comic book reader.
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Alien vampires conquer earth. They gain immortality by draining the vital aura of living beings, and do this through their mentally controlled Reapers that do the actual bloodsucking - they have a psychic link to the Reapers and drain the aura of their victims through the Reapers.
It's Fallout with alien vampires!
The quality of the books vary wildly. I got sucked in as well, as I read almost anything post-apocalyptica, but the last few books have seemed a bit week. Same thing happens to nearly any long running series - the author has a cash cow and keeps milking a bit too long or often. The first book is certainly worth the read, however, especially if you don't take it too seriously.
If you want realistic post-apocalypse, yeah, The Road, which you say has already been read, or Earth Abides
Another obvious recommendation is The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, which also has some great religious themes. Nearly everyone has read it though, as its a great science-fiction post-apocolyptic novel.
Finally, I'd recommend On the Beach, which illustrates the last days of a group of people taking refuge in Australia just after a nuclear war, as the radiation draws near their inevitable doom.
No zombies in any of those, sorry
I've lost count, but include me in this vote. Just finished reading it and...wow.
For something a bit more Zombie, see if you can get a copy of Dead Set. It's a British mini-series that ran recently on Channel 4 about a zombie apocalypse and centres around the contestants inside the Big Brother house. Trust me, as a concept it's utterly insane but utterly brilliant. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to exist on amazon.com (I'm assuming you're in the US), but if you can get hold of a copy it'd be well worth it.