On being hunted

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This might have come up in the archives, I don't know but if you only read
one book this year, you have got to get a copy (paperback $7.00) of
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". Super easy reading, 250 pages. You won't put it down. This isn't Hollywood stuff.
Basically a man and his young son survive the post apocoliptic Nuclear winters for years by statying on the move, transparent to the burnt out world where
nothing grows, no more fish or game & no sun. Gray rain and snow almost everyday.
And the very few people left (it's been years since the event happened) are
hunters for other humans to eat.
He carries a handgun and cartridges are impossible to find.
If you are a hunter then you will enjoy this book of survival.
 
Not gun-related, so I'd imagine this thread won't last long. But thanks for the suggestion--I'm always on the look-out for a good read. So I'll do my best to make it firearm related----I keep my guns in my library with my books--they like each others company. :D
 
Excellent book, I read the entire thing in one day. He does a very good job describing what life would be like in this scenario. I have not seen the movie yet but looking forward to it.
 
Anybody acquainted with Harlan Ellison's short story, "A Boy And His Dog"? It was made into a movie. Also set in a post-apocalyptic world.

I was less than whelmed by "No Country For Old Men". It was okay, if you like protagonists who aren't sure who they are, what they are, where they're going--and seem puzzled about where they've been.
 
most dangerous game

Somewhat related, and at least on a hunting theme:


There was a short story written quite a few ago entitled "The most dangerous game". I saw a 1940's (?) circa black and white movie made of same. In it a maniac lures ships onto reefs, and the survivors in the resultant ship wrecks
are "hunted" by this madman. The hero is a big game hunter of reknown who beats the guy at his own game.

Read the short story as a kid. Saw the movie in B & W about 20 years ago.
Have not seen either again, but have not looked either.
 
From Wikipedia: ""The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell. It was published in Collier's Weekly on January 19, 1924."

I read it sometime in the late 1940s in an anthology. Helluva yarn.
 
I read "The Road" about a year ago, bought it at an airport after a flight was cancelled. Great book, thoroughly enjoyed it. Have not seen the movie yet, but have heard that it does not measure up to the book.
 
A long time ago I read a short story with this plot.

The same plot was played on the TV series “Combat” many, many years ago. A German officer got the series lead actor (forget his name but he played a sergeant) into an isolated estate and told the sergeant what the game was. Of course, the Combat guy eventually won.

The thing I liked about the show was that set-trigger rifle the German officer used. One more beautiful gun.

I believe this is one of those “eternal” plots. Don’t know if Shakespeare had one but I recall reading something like this in books about ancient mythology.

Seems there are no new plots, only a new twist and even those are pretty used up.
 
The Combat star was Vic Morrow. He was unfortunately bisected by a helicoptor rotor while holding two little kids. He was filming Twilight Zone at the time...
 
Sort of reminds me of the book "Testament" by David Morrell. He's the same guy who wrote "First Blood" which was way better than the Rambo movie. "Testament" is about a journalist who writes a very unflattering article about a group of white supremacists, so they come after him. It covers a few years of his life on the run, surviving in the wilderness. Really good book - pretty dark, though.
 
"The most dangerous game" is now a required read for kids in Florida in the AP program...loved the story and it kind of freaks you out that someone would do something like that
 
Was somewhat underwhelmed by the "The Road". Mainly the idea of "nothing living" and the author's feelings that quotation marks are optional.

**Spoiler Alert**

I did think it was interesting that the bunker had bullets but no guns. While I smacked my forehead at the negligance, I can also understand that a pragmatic person would almost certainly have had those firearms in use in the household and simply have stockpiled the extra ammo just in case. It was definitely something I had to chew on though.

"Lucifer's Hammer" is a better post-apocolypse book if you're looking for one.
 
Yup, The Road is very good. I haven't seen the movie, but I'm sure they will find a way to botch it.

If you liked The Road, you might like the Stephen King's The Darktower Series.
 
Somewhat related, and at least on a hunting theme:


There was a short story written quite a few ago entitled "The most dangerous game". I saw a 1940's (?) circa black and white movie made of same. In it a maniac lures ships onto reefs, and the survivors in the resultant ship wrecks
are "hunted" by this madman. The hero is a big game hunter of reknown who beats the guy at his own game.

Read the short story as a kid. Saw the movie in B & W about 20 years ago.
Have not seen either again, but have not looked either.
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+1 on "The Most Dangerous Game". Read it in middle school and it still sticks with me after over 20 years. Not that it was one of the best short stories of all time, but it really got my mind going as a kid and that is what stuck.
 
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