I think when he get's to cottage grove and people are starting to buy into his story is where I started to really buy into the book so I guess that's my highlight.You can only use 10 percent of your brain! Ever wonder why is this idea sticky? (even though it's false?) "Made to stick" finds six qualities in all sticky ideas. "Snow delicately cover the death-glazed eyes of started deer, filling the channels between its starkly outlined ribs" * just an anecdotal memory but some of the dialogue (from memory particularly the dialogue with the Cyclops servants was quite cheesy and stilted I thought. 'The Road' (I actually only watched the movie but the example still stands with other movies like 'Dawn of the Dead'. * The general feel of the book had a hopeful note(s) which I've discovered I quite like in amongst the more bleak versions of post-apocalyptic fiction e.g. That made the whole setting more real and hence a lot more engaging. * Sense of threat was pretty constant and I definitely got the sense that anyone or anything could go pretty wrong pretty quickly. * I liked how some chapters started with a letter written between various correspondents and how this was used as a device to show some of the bigger picture stuff going on in the world outside of the main man's POV. Summary: A reluctant hero holds the line for civilisation while the forces of chaos and anarchy try to claw him (and the rest of the world) down into the ash. As Pogo said so long ago, "We have met the enemy and it is us." ( ) The war itself caused limited damage, the plagues that followed did more, but it was the "hypersurvivalists" with their stockpiles of weapons and food who caused the most damage and prevented the country from rebuilding itself by attacking and disrupting humanitarian relief efforts. Beyond the basics of the plot, the book also has a powerful message about the real dangers of the post-apocalyptic world. The postman initially doesn't intend to deceive them, but soon figures out that it's the best way to bring them together against the common enemy. It's touching to see how eagerly the villages want to believe that they are not alone in the world. government (due to his having stolen the uniform and mailbag of a dead postman along the way), he figures out a way to use the lie to bring communities together to fight the larger threat of anarchic gangs of "hypersurvivalists" who bear an uncomfortable resemblance to modern-day militia groups. When a solitary traveler is mistaken as an agent for a reconstituted U.S. The United States has been destroyed, and isolated communities in the Pacific Northwest are barely surviving in the aftermath of a war that was less damaging than the plagues that followed on its heels and killed most of the population. I'm a sucker for a good post-apocalyptic tale, and The Postman did not disappoint on that score.
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