What story has the most torn down world to you?

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
As a kid, I remember reading an excerpt of some short story (I think) where a huge dead mass came rumbling through or near the solar system and somehow beat out the sun for gravitational pull. What I read was pretty damn bleak because most of the world was dead from the cold, and it was a real struggle for anyone to continue surviving.

I wish I knew what story that was.

sounds like a story called: A Pail of Air

 

[Kyle]

The Road
gets my vote...pretty bleak

 

[Whitecloak]

titanic

 

[adairusmc]

Change We Can Believe In - Barack Obama

 

[ultra laser]

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer.

The bleakest, most terrible thing you will ever read.

 

[rpanic]

The Passion of the Christ (Benny Hill)

Brave new world

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Canai

Originally posted by: Away
The Stand

+ Dark Tower series.

Dark Tower is pretty run down.. more so than 1984, Brazil, Farenheit 451, because the fight is over in Dark Tower and this is the aftermath... that seems to be what King is trying to present...

What happens to worlds when the great struggle between good and evil is passed and only distant memory?

 

[Jeff7181]

Z for Zachariah

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Canai

Originally posted by: Away
The Stand

+ Dark Tower series.

Dark Tower is pretty run down.. more so than 1984, Brazil, Farenheit 451, because the fight is over in Dark Tower and this is the aftermath... that seems to be what King is trying to present...

What happens to worlds when the great struggle between good and evil is passed and only distant memory?

The greatest (most terrifying?) part of the Dark Tower are the beamquakes... When the beams (kind of like the backbones or main supports of all of existence - man made with incredible technology) snap, they annihilate everything along their path and send shivers out to the rest of the dimensions.

King really did a great job of describing what it'd be like long after civilization fell, when the dimension (and many others) began to crumble and collapse, and nature could no longer repair itself.

 

[Ctrackstar126]

I got to pick up Dark Tower

 

[Toastedlightly]

I think the Battlestar "world" is very rundown.

 

[merlocka]

Originally posted by: Auggie

The Road - by Cormac McCarthy - (Pulitzer Prize winner in '07)

I've read most of the books mentioned above (with the embarrassing exception of 1984, but it's on the list). They are all good suggestions, but I second "The Road".

 

[StinkyPinky]

1984

 

[dawp]

I think Starship Troopers is a fairly bleak world. a war of extermination between man and 'The Bugs"

the book is much better that that POS movie.