Reviews

The End as I Know It: A Novel of Millenial Anxiety by Kevin Shay

kwarthur's review against another edition

5.0

The End As I Know It: A Novel of Millennial Anxiety by Kevin Shay is a very funny novel about Y2K. It's set in 1998 and follows Randall Knight, a 25-year-old children's singer and puppeteer who quit his job in order to travel cross-country to warn his family and friends about the coming Y2K catastrophe. [return][return]Randall is a likable crackpot, a reasonable guy led astray by internet chatrooms and an obsessive/anxious personality. Along his increasingly futile journey he encounters other confused types -- survivalists, conspiracy theorists, an Amway family -- and Shay deftly explores the territory on either side of the fine line between legitimate concern and obsessive paranoia.[return][return]It's a fun, intelligent novel and I highly recommend it.[return][return](Reviewed at Question Technology: http://www.questiontechnology.org/blog/2007/04/the_end_as_i_kn.html)

jacalata's review against another edition

3.0

decent novel, I picked it up thinking 'millenial' referred to the generation. Interesting to think that some people actually believed this stuff only ten years ago!