One Year after

[RobertJ]

Has anyone read "One Year After" yet? Its the sequel to William Forstchens "One Second After". I enjoyed the read. Kinda wondering if any better, worse,etc.
Read a few sample paragraphs, seems interesting.

[Lowdown3]

Was traveling a week ago and saw the audiobook at a Barnes and Noble.

One year after cigarettes....... ahhhh where do I begin.

I think I have one disk left of the upteenth discs.

It's average, but keep in mind I wasn't very fond of the first book. I think the whole thing is very polly ann'ish.

"John" is pretty much worshipped in this one. Fud gubmint is trying to reorganize, some local tinhorn leader from said gubmint pushes John. John visits a hospital holding patients wounded by said totalitarian gubmint, someone says "are you here to fight with us MockingJohn?" and he replies yes. Oh sorry wrong fiction story.

It's 784 days after "the day" where Randy Bragg stood on his deck and watched nukes hit. Sorry, wrong fiction story again. He's robbed from so many I can't keep up. I suppose before the book is over their will be an Oriental character named John Fong that stands up on a platform and cries that the gubmint can take his gun from his cold dead hands. That's about the only story he hasn't overtly robbed from.

"It was like a damn Norman Rockwell painting"- as if he didn't say that crap enough in the first book?

"John wasn't going to take the cigarette from Burnette as he knew that would make him a slave." - as if it didn't before that?

Oh and all of the "kids" at the college are now Tier 1 operators, even the broads grew beards for the part it seems... LOL. Seriously though, they are all tough arses... Just ask them.

Oh and the best part- when the evil despotic gubmint attacks you, try to be civil with them. It's time to talk and be a nice guy when the Apaches shoot up your town and kill a bunch of people. You can still bring it back from the brink! Definitely don't take out the damn helicopters or whack out the evil tyrant, just keep talking to him and maybe take the job he's offering you. He's probably offering Cigarettes as fringe benefits....

"The draft" is perhaps the most clever thing in the book, you know when the despotic leader rides into town and announces that he's taking 5 conscripts from every village and tells them to line up.... Oh wait, wrong story.

[protus]

When it drops price ill read it on the kindle. But im not dropping 12$ for a digital copy.

Hey LD ......its just a remake of alas boozebylon ...
Which was better imho. Lol

[RobertJ]

Thanks,
Yeah not paying that price either. Pretty much how I thought the read would go... Protus the funny part is I had just purchased a new copy of "Alas" a few/6 months? before to reread it. It was required reading in my school. Then purchased the one second paperback said time after and was like whoa...
Looks like I will wait a bit more for price drop.

[protus]

Yeah i need to get a copy of alas...it was kinda good for how dated it was....

[RobertJ]

I can relate to alas because I know all the land marks written about. Heck the airport is to close for comfort now that I think about it again.