A review by captlychee
On the Beach by Nevil Shute

3.0

NOt the most psectacularly written book, but it does my home town proudd. Strange mix of fictional suburbs and real ones, for reasons I don't know about and probaly wouldn't understand. But it does show a time when Australians weren't the grab bag opf grizzling fuckwits our own media portrays us to be nowadays. It's finest moments are when it describes people stoically taking things as they come. It makes us seem brave.

One of the few books where the movie (the 1960 one) is better than the book.