Modern Day Literature - Dark Story about Survival

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	• Swan Song Robert McCammon Pocket, 1987 - 960 pages average customer review:based on 468 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Truly an excellent book

When I was a little girl my mother had a bookshelf full of paperback horror novels that she would read- mainly Stephen Kings and and few Koontz's. I specifically remembered asking her one day- "What's your favorite one?" she picked up Swan Song and said "This one for sure." That was about 10 years ago, and one day recently I was in a used book store and came across it. I bought it and honestly thought I would hate it, because I have little or no interest in the King's and Koontz's that filled her shelf. Start to finish I was enthralled with this book. I thought it was powerful and very well written. I was interested in every character that McCammon presented. I read The Stand a few years ago, and it I felt as if it couldn't even compare to this book. Since finishing Swan Song, I pick up any McCammon I come across- Mystery Walk was great, and I just completed book one of the Speaks the Nightbird series. Nightbird is different from his past novels (perhaps explained by the 10 year break?) but again, McCammon writes so well and makes the readers truly interested in his characters. All in all, I love McCammon and Swan Song is one of the finest novels I have read, even if it was in the "discount horror bin" at my local book store.

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Modern Day Literature - Dark Story about Survival

What happens after a global nuclear war? The author does an exceptional job at creating a series of inter-related stories, that demonstrate the different mindsets of individuals as they are faced with surviving in radioactive waste and destroyed cities and landscapes.

Swan Song is an excellent book - and recommend it highly to individuals for literature discussions and school assignments. I thought it was a horror story, but found it to be a modern tale of survival, compassion, greed, love and friendship. Written in the spirit of Frankenstein, where evil characters were not motivated by evil - but by the need to survive.

I found it strange (in a good way), that one of the hero's in the book (Sister Creep), starts out in the book as a homeless "bag lady".

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The best book I have EVER read!!

Swan Song is by far the best book I have ever read. In fact, I have had to re-purchase this book 11 times because I have given my copy away to other bibliophiles. I can't recommend any book more.

Great storywriter

My first by McCammon and I am impressed. For such a big book, I was kept interested the whole way. He didn't tend to ramble on when describing things. Just a great story. I will read more by him.

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