# 14: The Last Town on Earth
A first novel by Thomas Mullen
Based in the Pacific Northwest, this novel was recommended as a hot pick for the fall in 2006 by an Amazon buyer. I think it has done ok, but today I checked and it is at sales rank #500. Is that good or bad? Probably not so hot, especially when you compare it to the Kite' Runner. That, by the way, is a hell of a book.
It is written in a simple vein, with some interesting moral dilemmas. I thought the book was ok, but it do not completely win me over. It is a book about war, the flu, isolation, paternalism, fighting the inevitable, unintended consequences and love. There are connections to the modern world, which from a US perspective is also facing war, the threat of bird flu, and creating fences along borders.
One interesting note: during the Great War (World War I, 1917) some Americans had gone so far as to rename sauerkraut "liberty cabbage", this is similar to the 2003 (?) when the US Congress cafeteria changes the name of "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries" (this is absolutely true, check out this link in CNN). Anyway, wars make people do some strange things.
Not to much else to say about the book.
Ciao!
Alex
Based in the Pacific Northwest, this novel was recommended as a hot pick for the fall in 2006 by an Amazon buyer. I think it has done ok, but today I checked and it is at sales rank #500. Is that good or bad? Probably not so hot, especially when you compare it to the Kite' Runner. That, by the way, is a hell of a book.
It is written in a simple vein, with some interesting moral dilemmas. I thought the book was ok, but it do not completely win me over. It is a book about war, the flu, isolation, paternalism, fighting the inevitable, unintended consequences and love. There are connections to the modern world, which from a US perspective is also facing war, the threat of bird flu, and creating fences along borders.
One interesting note: during the Great War (World War I, 1917) some Americans had gone so far as to rename sauerkraut "liberty cabbage", this is similar to the 2003 (?) when the US Congress cafeteria changes the name of "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries" (this is absolutely true, check out this link in CNN). Anyway, wars make people do some strange things.
Not to much else to say about the book.
Ciao!
Alex
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