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The book details a long and arduous journey through a fimbul winter after the end of the world. Throughout the book they have everything thrown at them, they witness the horrors of desparation, they struggle every step of the way.... BUT, they never give up.

It's a story about stregth. Right up until the very end they keep fighting. One every page of the novel they had the option to end it and die, but that never even crossed their minds. They never complained, they never pitied themselves, they just carried on never giving up.

This was not a depressing novel. It was an inspiring novel.

For God's sake - me belly ache.

The doctor said it's me kidneys.

He said he got to stick a tube up me knob.

I said you've got to be kiddin' me.

For God's sake - knob ache...

I heard a brief synopsis of it and it sounds really interesting and like the type of thing I'd mega enjoy, but on further inspection it appears to be one of the most polarizing books within the scifi subculture. It's always talked about in two different ways. On one side you have people saying it's genius and an unrivalled masterpiece. On the other side you get people calling it pretentious gibberish...

What do you think about the book? Is it worth picking up?

Whenever England do well at football, everyone loses their shit. But you know who would be worse than England? The USA.

I'm not American btw. I think it would be utterly hilarious to see Europe & South America collectively having an online nuclear meltdown worse than Chenobyl. It would be hilarious like nothing else.

Also Trump would publically auto-folate himself so loudly that every reddit user would start screeching uncontrollably like bats. I dont support Trump either, but to just see everyone on the internet lose it would, again, be hilarious.

Its the one outcome nobody would enjoy. That is why I'm rooting for the USA this world cup. Come on, you yanks!!

I've heard a couple of my favourite booktubers talk about Barry Malzberg very highly, so I figured I'd check him out. I purchased an old paperback copy of his novel, The Destruction Of The Temple on ebay for about £20. It was utterly fantastic and on another level. Told with immaculate prose, it was like if you combined the grittyness and decay of a 70s JG Ballard novel with a delirious and mindbending plotline that made Ubik seem straightforward. Anyway I checked on Goodreads and it only as about 100 ratings, and I was stunned.

But then again it's no wonder that this book only got 100 ratings, because nobody in the right mind would ever pay that price for a 50 year old paperback. In fact nearly all of his books are overpriced as they are all out of print; some fetching as much as £45. In this modern world of ours where every everyone is tight for cash, it's no wonder that nobody is talking about him anymore.

I just find it so tragic that an author who was so talented has just been forgotten about like this. Despite a few hardcore nerds, literally nobody is talking about him and I feel like his legacy deserves better than this. I feel like if a modern publisher were to reprint some of his works then he'd get more recognition, because he sure as hell deserves it.