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Loading... The Last Centurion (original 2008; edition 2009)by John Ringo
Work InformationThe Last Centurion by John Ringo (2008)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is a novel about a plague and climate change hitting in 2019-2020 written back in 2008, from the perspective of an infantry captain in the U.S. Army. This is a flawed book but still great. Probably the best post-apocalyptic near-term book I've read. Strangely prescient in some ways, strangely flawed in other ways -- a few things were exactly backwards, possibly due to changes in the world between 2008 and today. It doesn't fall into the weird right-wing novel trap of being a manual for revolution (with lots of detailed instructions, product placements, out of place monologues about philosophy, etc. There's some of that, but it's in-context and appropriate. Book was written in 2006-2008. There's an obvious Hillary Clinton character as President in 2016-2020. The irony is most of the negative things ascribed to her turned out to be bipartisan (Trump did them as well, and some were Obama-type actions); you could have had the same novel with only insignificant changes written as a left-wing post apocalyptic novel. I guess there are universal forms of bad governance. There were a lot of really unbelievable situations in the book which were somehow explained and made plausible through the story through other implausible situations, but it was consistently entertaining. A fair number of technical errors throughout the book -- the author had some military background but only up to E-4, and didn't have really extensive personal knowledge of the geography of the areas involved in the novel, but it was still entertaining. A tough slog in some places but an interesting read none the less. As a preemptive right wing strike; should the US ever elect a liberal female president, it opens will a definite and quite detailed analysis of how a pandemic spreads. Then, transitions to a lost company in Iran captained by no ordinary mortal. Refuting current thinking on global warming with a well reasoned counter theory, he makes the case for industrial level agriculture as the way to feed the world. Then, he resolves most of the historic Mideast problems on his way to capture Istanbul assisted by some Nepalese turned into instant Gurkhas and the usual bevy of beautiful women. no reviews | add a review
In the second decade of the 21st century the world is struck by two catastrophes, a new mini-ice age and a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. An American Army officer struggles to prevent the fall of his homeland--despite others' efforts to stop him. No library descriptions found. |
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A wankfest for people with a John Wayne fantasy.
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