Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Book Review: "The Last Man" by Mary Shelley - 1826

I didn't like the writing style, but I really liked the plot.  The first half of the book is completely different from the second half.  In the beginning, it is more of a love story and a story of friendship.  Then, people start dying and dying and dying.  Not a very upbeat novel, but supposedly, it is representative of Shelley's life-where her husband and children died, and how she felt about it.
 
The world is affected by a devastating plague.  It is depressing and fascinating at the same time.

Though the story is supposed to take place in the future, very little of it seemed like it.  They still used horses for transportation and technology seems nonexistent. 

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