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Title: The only book that ever broke my heart
Review: I generally avoid books like this because they depress me, but I finally gave in after a family member brought it home. No matter how sad, I never cry over movies and books, but in order to finish this book I had to lock myself in the bathroom; I've never cried so much in my life. I finished it yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it. Regardless of whether or not it was scientifically accurate, it drove home the futility of nations building up nuclear arms against each other. Shute's characters have dignity to the end - and his mention of how newspapers would rather have stories of (I'm paraphrasing) "pin up girls and indecent assaults" than stories like this was amazingly prescient and ahead of its time. This book broke my heart. Read it, read it, read it -but have a very large box of tissues at your side at the end.
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