So I've been doing a LOT of reading (and writing though obviously not here) lately and many of the novels I've been reading have had a very doomed atmosphere to them. I love that. When a story can just envelope you and suddenly it's as if you can hear and smell and feel all of the things that the characters are. That is what makes the written word so magical.
The dooming effect the novels seem to have made me think about how many stories there are about various versions of an apocalypse. Between the zombie tales and the alien invasions and the idea of 2012, there are so many ways the world could blow up in our faces (possibly literally) but it really makes you wonder a little. Say there really is some kind of gigantic disaster and the world as we know it becomes something strange and devastated and new, who would actually make it. Somehow if all of a sudden we lived in a world where we were back to the basics and hunting and gathering, fighting for survival, I can't imagine that the people who fight natural human behavior and instinct would make it very far. Just a thought.
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