The Postman

I watched the movie version of this book right after finishing it. What a mistake. The movie is nothing like the book; it kept just the barebones concepts. It made me realize just how much I appreciated the book. It's not a great book, but it was very good: interesting, suspenseful, and kept me reading. The prose was cold, reflecting the stark atmosphere of the post-apocalyptic setting, as well as the weather outside the days I was reading this (haha). Normally, I wouldn't like this kind of writing, but it matched the mood the book was trying to create. I also thought the whole concept of using the mail as a unifying force for the disparate communities surviving after war, plague, and nuclear winter was pretty great. This book won a couple of awards and was nominated for a few others.

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