What story has the most torn down world to you?

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Aug 23, 2000
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Originally posted by: Ctrackstar126
What movie/game/book has just a world of despair. Seems to be no hope at all and things just seems to get worst.

Share what you think has the most hopeless stories.

WORSE
 

SirStev0

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Originally posted by: loki8481
On The Beach

I wanted to slit my wrists right along with the main characters by the end of that book... it's about a town in Australia just waiting for the nuclear fallout to reach them and kill them all.

I heard the book is outstanding and pretty trippy.
 

SirStev0

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Nov 13, 2003
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Originally posted by: ethebubbeth
The Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, the Unbeliever.

The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

The Thirst chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

Each chronicles get more and more bleak as it progresses. It's so painful to read but you must keep going XD

After finally finishing the third book of his dark materials, The Covenant chronicles are my next undertaking.
 

aceO07

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Movie - Grave of the Fireflies

I haven't read any truly depressing books yet. I finished 1984 last month. I'm desensitized after all the '9/11' protection that we've been provided.
 

BlueAcolyte

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Children of Men
The Clockwork Orange
Perhaps Portal (depends when it takes place in the HL2 universe, the world is kind of ruined and you are stuck in the facility with GlaDOS. Doesn't get much worse)


While the stand is rather creepy, it has some bright moments in it.
His dark materials had a happy (relatively, at least) ending if I remember right.
 

Uppsala9496

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Originally posted by: ethebubbeth
The Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, the Unbeliever.

The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

The Thirst chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

Each chronicles get more and more bleak as it progresses. It's so painful to read but you must keep going XD

On average I read about a book every 2 weeks. Have been doing this for years.
Of all the books I have read, the Thomas Covenant book is the only one I stopped reading. I found it to be absolutley horrible. Boring, unimaginative, weak. Did not like it at all.
If I were to ever burn a book (or author), this would be it. Words can not express how horrible that garbage is.

And now back on topic....
 

BooGiMaN

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Id have to say The Rising and Dead City both by Brian Keene portray a pretty torn down world.

from wikipedia:

"The dead are returning to life as zombies. But they are not just flesh-eating ghouls, they are intelligent, capable creatures that are taking on all forms of life: both human and animal."

So everyone dead around you including the animals and eventually even the plant life are intelligent zombies who can communicate with each other and follow orders and can do anything the human body could before they became zombies, drive cars motorcycles and tanks, shoot guns, and even run and they hate all humans and their main objective is to kill all humans so the rest of their evil buddies can inhabit earth..

so yeah the more humans they kill the more human bodies they can inhabit....which in turn just multiplies their numbers and kill more humans...no where to run or hide none of this slow moving zombie stuff.





 

ZippyDan

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Sep 28, 2001
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Originally posted by: Ctrackstar126
What movie/game/book has just a world of despair. Seems to be no hope at all and things just seems to get worst.

Share what you think has the most hopeless stories.

batman & robin

 
May 31, 2001
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Movie: Soylent Green

Book: Make Room! Make Room!

Make Room! Make Room! is the Harry Harrison book that Soylent Green was based on, but the movie diverges somewhat from the book. In fact, the big surprise in the movie has absolutely nothing to do with the book.
 

zinfamous

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I'd like to add: The Wizard of Oz.

Holy shit, that place freaks me the fuck out!!!

 

Auggie

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Obvious ones:

The Matrix - post-nuclear apocalypse world where super-intelligent robots want to kill us.
The Lord of the Rings - Mordor threatening to destroy the weakened kingdoms of men

Also:

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

The Road follows a man and a boy, father and son, journeying together for many months across a post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm. The story takes place in the former United States, in the lower Appalachian mountains, where civilization has been destroyed, along with most life; the precise fate of the rest of the earth is not made clear, though the implication is that the disaster has affected the entire planet. What is left of humanity now consists largely of bands of cannibals and their prey, and refugees who scavenge for food. Ash covers the surface of the earth; in the atmosphere, it obscures the sun and moon, and the two travelers breathe through improvised masks to filter it out. Plants and animals are apparently all dead (dead wood for fuel is plentiful), and the rivers and oceans are seemingly empty of life. The only non-human organisms they encounter are a dog, some edible mushrooms, moss, and some mold and shriveled apples found in an orchard. (pulled from Wikipedia)


 

Gooberlx2

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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.
 

dirtylimey

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Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
Id have to say The Rising and Dead City both by Brian Keene portray a pretty torn down world.

from wikipedia:

"The dead are returning to life as zombies. But they are not just flesh-eating ghouls, they are intelligent, capable creatures that are taking on all forms of life: both human and animal."

So everyone dead around you including the animals and eventually even the plant life are intelligent zombies who can communicate with each other and follow orders and can do anything the human body could before they became zombies, drive cars motorcycles and tanks, shoot guns, and even run and they hate all humans and their main objective is to kill all humans so the rest of their evil buddies can inhabit earth..

so yeah the more humans they kill the more human bodies they can inhabit....which in turn just multiplies their numbers and kill more humans...no where to run or hide none of this slow moving zombie stuff.

Just want to say that out of several hundred books that I have read, spanning all manner of age, genre and author... Those two books written by Brian Keene were the worst I have ever read. Ever.

The Rising/City of the Dead cliffs:

-zombie fish
-wisecracking zombies
-parody of donald trump during a zombie outbreak
-various scenes disjointed from everything, written for 100% shock value.

puhlease.

Torn down world stories:

Book: 1984 (felt pretty depressed after finishing this)
Movie/TV: Threads (this is available on google video), The Stand
Game: Stalker (felt very bleak, being post apocalyptical and all) HL2 is pretty torn down too..
 
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