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"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off."
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They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end.... --Ce texte provient de la Mass Market Paperback �dition.

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A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North. --Ce texte provient d'une �dition qui n'est plus publi�e ou qui est non diponible.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Inspiring and Heartbreaking, Avril 14 2007

Par	BITTER (Philadelphia, PA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: On the Beach (Mass Market Paperback)

Next to "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "The Color Purple", I can't think of any other books that made me cry. I first saw "On The Beach" in movie form, and it had such an effect on me, I had to buy the book. The book was even better than the movie, but just like the movie, poignant, depressing and only now can I not think about a potential nuclear holocaust. The book is so simple and matter of fact about the last days of civilization. At the same time, you want a miracle to happen, but it doesn't. With all that is going on in North Korea and Iran right now, the novel has sort of a desperate poignancy.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Great Book...VERY Depressing, Juil 15 2004

Par	C. Connolly (Fair Lawn, New Jersey USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

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A great, simple book very well written and poignant. What's interesting about it is that as we enter the story, the nuclear war that will eventually doom the characters in the story has already occurred and is over. They are simply awaiting the lethal radioactive cloud to move down to the southern hemisphere and begin to kill everyone off. The people carry on their daily lives as if nothing has happened. But we see in several key scenes early in the book how painfully, heartbreakingly aware they really are. And that's the key power to the story. These people know they're doomed but what choice do they have except to continue on with their lives. The most painful scene I found in the book was how the young couple with the baby begin to plan out their garden for the next year knowing full well that they are not going to be around to see it. They're fooling themselves, obviously, but how else to cope with the inevitable.

In the end, the book has the same effect as a movie called "Testament" with Jane Alexander. You'll be depressed and feeling a little scared and hopeless.

This is not light reading.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Spooky, eminently readable book, Juil 7 2004

Par	Far Lefkas (Balto.-WDC metro area) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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I'd heard about this book for years; finally got 'round to reading it. A year or so after a nuclear war, fought entirely in the Northern Hemisphere, folks on the southeast coast of Australia await their fate: a radioactive wind carried around the earth.

Shute was not writing high art here: @times it sounds almost like reportage, but he manages to maintain a modicum of suspense throughout the novel by placing his characters in semi-routine situations that are always circumscribed by their finality: this is the last time we will ever...

A bland scientist cuts loose in an annual auto race; a couple spends their last hours together fishing in the mountains; another couple landscapes their yard until they're too weak to stand. The exchange betw. the submarine captain & the escaped crewman Swain is frighteningly unbearable in its blandness: "I know how you feel, sailor," sighs CDR Towers, as Swain chugs across the sub's path in a motor boat, just off the coast of his deserted hometown in Washington State.

On the Beach was a super-quick read: the messages were not hidden but revealed in conversations among the characters. If we had the chance, would we do anything differently? Has anybody recorded a history of this?

The book end with the inevitable, the deaths of all the characters, & it just doesn't matter whether people survive in Tasmania or New Zealand, for their deaths won't be long in coming.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Chilling and moving
After being forced to read this my junior year of high school in English class, one of my friends hated it so much that he wrote a song called "Nevil Shute Can Kiss My *#&. Read more

Publi� le Jui 4 2004 par S.R.W. Phillips

5.0�toiles sur 5 Haunting....
I have read this book twice now - with a space of 14 years in between - and I found I got a lot more out of it and remembered quite a lot from the first time. Read more

Publi� le Avril 7 2004 par D. L. Kroeker

5.0�toiles sur 5 This Book is Probably The Sole Reason WW3 Never Happened
I read this book about 44 years ago when I was a kid and still remember passages. One of the best novels ever written! Read more

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4.0�toiles sur 5 The end of the World
When he wrote this novel the end of the world in a nuclear holocaust was a very real prospect. Time has passed, and the nuclear threat has receeded. Read more

Publi� le F�v 16 2004 par Sailoil

5.0�toiles sur 5 Extremely thought-provoking
I picked this book up at the recommendation of a friend, having an interest in dystopia/apocalyptic books. Read more

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A Classic
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This is a well written book which I think is now considered a something of a classic. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 1 2004 par J. E. Robinson

4.0�toiles sur 5 Depressing, but Moving
The end of the world is coming.
The madness of nuclear war has consumed the Northern hemisphere and the ensuing radiation is seeping south to destroy Australia. Read more

Publi� le D�c 31 2003 par L. D. Rhoden Jr.

5.0�toiles sur 5 Deep, thoughtful, will make you think....
This definately isn't a light book, by any definition. The subject matter is depressing, but in a good way. It makes you want to jump up and find a hippie peace movement. Read more

Publi� le D�c 2 2003 par horseplaypen

5.0�toiles sur 5 Like A Bath For the Soul
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Publi� le Nov. 6 2003 par Christian E. Senftleben

5.0�toiles sur 5 Amazingly realistic
Could very will be an accurate prediction of what will happen. Gets a person to thinking about the choices made today.

Publi� le Oct. 10 2003 par bjkreyke

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