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Title: No story, no substance.
Review: This is the first book in a really long time that I found extremely difficult to finish.If you're looking for an entertaining story or deep character development, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a morbid, anti-climatic story with little plot and way too much superficial description, this is a book for you.On the Beach was written during the cold war, when the specter of a nuclear apocalypse was ever present. The book takes the "we're all gonna die" mantra to heart. Reading it during the times would have surely resonated, and this is the only real value of the book. It gives a peek into the morbid obsession with nuclear armegeddon.The book flatlines about 1/4th of the way through, and you spend the rest reading about the characters planting gardens, buying items, and other trivial boring crap. You keep expecting something to happen... but nothing does.If you want to read a good post-apocalyptic book from the era, I recommend Day of the Triffids or Alas, Babylon.
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