The World Ends in Hickory Hollow
by Ardath Mayhar
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Author: Ardath MayharEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-05
ISBN: 1434400247
Number of pages: 168
Publisher: Wildside Press
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Book Reviews of The World Ends in Hickory Hollow
Book Review: If you're looking for a politically correct SHTF book, this is the one for you.
Summary: 1 Stars
Let me give it to you straight, this is one of THE worst SHTF books I have ever read.
In fact the only thing good about this book that I can actually think of to say is that at least the author can actually spell and use punctuation correctly and there aren't a whole bunch of typos. It's all downhill from there.
The main characters are a man and a woman who grew up on adjoining farms and who then fell in love and married. Like many farm kids they move away from their rural family farms to try their hand at city life in Houston and they have two kids along the way. Basically life in the city is too hectic for them, they're unhappy there and they decide to move back to the family farm (just in time it turns out).
At any rate once they're back on the farm their family life this time around before the 'World Ends' is so idyllic that once the power goes out and the mail stops they don't even bother to go into town to find out what's going on. In fact they wait a week before they go into town to visit one of their mothers only to find out that TS has HTF and that many cities in the US have been nuked.
Once they find out this what do they do???
Collect Grandma and her useful belongings and head out of town towards home to fortify their house?
Go by the houses of local friends to try and get a survival group together?
No, they collect the extra food grandma has around the house and the husband in the story goes to deliver it to the local shelter that the city has going for people that were homeless, in the hospital or that were in the local nursing home.
Instead of dumping off the food like he was supposed to the husband returns to Grandma's house with a bunch of complete strangers who are all amazingly skilled in different ways. They also all might as well be from the United Nations because they're all as ethnically diverse as humanly possible and they invite them all to live on their farm as one big happy family.
Yeah, right. =)
If you think that's unlikely as hell wait 'til you really get into the middle and towards the end of it. This book is filled full of all kinds of instances like this where the characters do the politically correct thing and perform extremely unlikely acts of kindness (or stupidity, whichever way you look on it) which would never happen in real life.
Plus you can definitely tell where this person's political lie. It's almost as if some Anarchist 'Peace Punk' got ahold of a survival manual somewhere and decided to write down chapter and verse how they think that society SHOULD go rather than what's most likely to play out if the bombs were to fall and society as we know it would cease to end.
I'm sorry.....but should chaos really reign over the land you're going to see scenes from Beruit, Belfast, Chechnya, Sarajevo replayed all over this country. People aren't going to come together from diverse backgrounds to form some group out of nowhere. It's just not realistic.
When L.A. exploded into violence in April of 1992 was Reginald Denny asked to join the Eight Tray Gangster Crips when he rolled through Florence and Normandie? No, he got hauled out of his car and had the crap beat out of him because he wasn't like the people that lived in that area.
All pretty unlikely and unrealistic stuff in this book.
Also the characters of this book are also as flat and as uninteresting as a Kansas prairie.
BTW - To give you an idea of how stupidly politically correct the author is the 'Raiders' of this book are a bunch of Redneck Southern Women who kill all the male children that are born to the various women (who are knocked up by strangers or moonshiners). Their children are so feral that they know how to use a pistol, but not know how to speak in complete sentences.
Yeah....like I said, pretty stupid.
Unless you just HAVE TO have every SHTF/Post-Apocalyptic book out there don't bother with this one.
Summary of The World Ends in Hickory Hollow
When the bombs fell and Western civilization ended, the residents of Hickory Hollow, Texas, scarcely noticed the difference. They were already used to fending for themselves--growing their own food, helping their neighbors survive, keeping their rural life going, much as before.But when the Ungers--a band of renegade thieves, murderers, and ne'er-do-wells--began raiding the nearby plots, looting and killing everyone in sight, it was time to take action!
"I was reminded constantly of George R. Stewart's classic post-holocaust novel, Earth Abides. The gentle rhythms of country existence, the sense that the world will continue (with or without us), the joy of living close to the earth, the nature of community itself, all combine for a poignant tale celebrating the best of what it means to be human. In Mayhar's perceptive eyes, the World Begins in Hickory Hollow." --Robert Reginald.
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