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kawaii--

Tender is the Flesh

Horror

I just finished this book. I enjoyed the apocalyptic aspect. I’m not looking for gore, but any recommendations of something to read next?

Posted Jun 29, 2022, 9:51 PM UTC

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LoneWolfette•

The Stand by Stephen King

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin

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kawaii--OP•

Is swan song the same as the movie?

Thanks for the recommendations… what’s the passage idea?

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LoneWolfette•

On Swan Song, no I don’t think so. New York Times Bestseller: A young girl’s visions offer the last hope in a postapocalyptic wasteland in this “grand and disturbing adventure” (Dean Koontz).

The Passage begins in the near future and details an apocalyptic and, later, post-apocalyptic world that is overrun by zombie/vampire like beings who are infected by a highly contagious virus. What begins as a project to develop a new immunity-boosting drug based on a virus carried by an unnamed species of bat in South America eventually becomes the virus that transforms the world. It was also on the New York Times Bestseller list.

I actually have more post apocalyptic book suggestions, if you’re interested.

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kawaii--OP•

Yes, please! 👏🏼 (excited clapping)

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LoneWolfette•

Be careful what you wish for… 🤓

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Alas Babylon by Pat Frank

The Death of Grass by John Christopher

A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher

Empty World by John Christopher

Dust by Charles Pellegrino

Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Warday by Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka

The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski

Dies the Fire trilogy by SM Stirling

Earth Abides by George Stewart

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller

Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham

World War Z by Max Brooks. Yes, it’s a zombie novel but it’s a smart, thoughtful zombie novel.

Oryx and Crake trilogy by Margaret Atwood

The Forge of God by Greg Bear

Flood by Stephen Baxter

Moonseed by Stephen Baxter

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Genocides by Thomas Disch

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel is a popular recommendation for post apocalyptic books but I found it to be a little too gentle and nice. But I thought I’d mention it in case you’re interested.

Another one I didn’t care for much is the Wool by Hugh Howey. A similar book I did like was Level Seven by Mordecai Roshwald.

Hope you find something here you like.

Edit: Thought if another one that Tender is tge Flesh reminded me of. Through Darkest America by Neal Barrett Jr.

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kamarsh79•

I just finished Swan Song today and loved it. I could not put it down.

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Writer_Girl2017•

Try {{The Road}} by Cormac McCarthy

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goodreads-bot•

The Road

^(By: Cormac McCarthy | 241 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, dystopian, post-apocalyptic)

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

^(This book has been suggested 13 times)

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kawaii--OP•

Yes! Thank you! I have read this one and love it. It’s actually my favorite book.

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DocWatson42•

See the threads:

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avgmidpaki•

iveheardabout this book sm, is it worth it?

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kawaii--OP•

I think so. Some parts are a little gory imo. But I liked the idea of the societal effects. The ending I also liked cause I really thought something might change (big picture) but didn’t- how could it? One person cannot change all of society.

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