Book of Eli

The Book review for The Road is postponed till next week. Enjoy the video trailer of the Book of Eli, showing how powerful one book is during the end of the world.

The Road Pt 1

You know I always wondered if there was something in life that I could never live without. When I was young I had a very naive look and picked something material and childish, but now I look at that question and have an answer that I would die defending and go insane without. That answer is my family, without a doubt, that's something I not only couldn't live without but don't want to live without. I've just purchased the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I've only skimmed through the first few pages but the descriptive telling of such a bleak and dismal setting. Its a story of a father and son who are traveling South, against the environment and the unknown. I've only read 8 percent (via the kindle) but there's death, despair and I'm sure there are much more parts of intense moments to come. Which brings me to my next question, who would you have by your side when it all comes crashing down...? The full book review will come by next week until then here is the trailer for the movie based on the book The Road...

Life as we knew It

In keeping up with my end of the world theme, I've read a book called "Life as we Knew It" by Susan Beth Pfeffer. 

It's the end of the world but in a cataclysm that i have not thought of. Long story short, a meteor hit the moon and moved it too close to earth, causing havoc, destruction on a global scale in the form of tsunamis earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The book is written in a a diary/ narrator format. Following the story of a young teenage girl named Miranda and her family through this crisis. The story shows how surviving  event like this is nothing short of impossible, all the hardships and terrible moments faced by Miranda and her family, it coined in on the title of the book, their life was never the same again and the old life as they knew it was gone forever. The story was slow to pick up on the more exciting parts but I suppose it takes time to build up a good story. In short, the book was a good read and had me turning pages faster and faster with each word read and chapter finished. This book showed how the end of the world could change the strongest of us, the weakest, the most religious and how society can turn in on its self. 

On a side note, here is another video adaptation of the world ending, courtesy of Fallout 3. A 1950's/Jestons theme with the funny part ending at the 1:30 mark and the grim reality beginning at the 1:31 mark.....Enjoy 

In the Beginning

There are a lot of fads and trends that are out that are very popular with society, however would that all really matter if the world was to come to an end? I'm not necessarily saying that *boom* the earth is going to explode or that all life is going to cease, but that civilization is going to come to a halt. That everything as you know it is gone, changed, different, never the same again. No more NBA, no more TV., no more school, no more government, no more society (and hopefully no more twilight). This is a specific area of interest that has multiple platforms in which it shines, from literature (books, short stories, graphic novels, and comics) to media (videogames, websites, television, movies). The funny part is that some of these books turned into movies, the sheer power of the idea that the world as we know it will be no more. On specific book I've recently read was called "Life as we knew it." Where a meteor hit the moon and worldwide disasters happen and just like the title, the life they lived before was just a faded memory. Stop and think about, the end of the world isn’t a recent fad that just popped out of nowhere, before the 2012 scare was Y2K, before that the nuclear missile crisis and so on and so forth. Even in the first book ever printed, the Bible, there was a mention of an apocalypse, an end of the world prophecy, the four riders of the apocalypse, a battle between Heaven and hell. Whether the end is brought upon by man, by nature or by forces beyond our comprehension, this is a subject that has a lot of literature to choose from. Books such as “The Road”, “I Am Legend”, “The Stand”, and “World War Z” emphasize and give a taste of a future grim and void of all hope. A good read in my honest opinion. This video is of a game called Darksiders: Wrath of War, the story goes, the apocalypse came and life was extinguished, but the end of the world came early…