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I like his description of the mother tongue.!!

One summer, while exiled to California while my family went to France and India, I discovered my uncle's boyhood collection of Nevil Shute. While these books appealed to him as a teen, they also appealed to me. Of all of Shute's books, I think this may be his best. On the surface, it is a nuclear holocaust story involving lots of military. But in reality, it is a touching story about what happens when humankind destroys itself, and investigates the lives and thoughts of the remaining survivors in Australia, who are doomed to the same fate. What would you do if you knew a noxious cloud of radioactivity was headed your way in a matter of months, weeks, days? What would you think if you knew you were the last humans alive on earth? Would you sit quietly and wait? Would you try to do something to change this fate? Or would you find a better way to die.

Interesting read. my mother lent me this book, having been given it by a rather academic friend of the family. Once I got into it I was hocked, plenty of mystery to keep those pages turning. Reading it was a bit like eating a pot of Phish food- you keep eating it and stumbling across the gooey caramelly bits and chunky textual facts to get your teeth into. However its useful to have Google to hand for some background checking as it gets a bit philosophical at times.