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From: ecl@ahutb.UUCP (e.c.leeper)
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Subject: Re: _War Day_ Any opinions?
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 11:47:11 EST
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I have read the book (though not reviewed it) and heard the radio adaptation
that Pacifica (WBAI in New York) did just last Wednesday.

I did not find it particularly scary (though everyone else seems to have)
because, like so many post-holocaust stories (and films, especially) it seems
to minimize the effects.  I mean, this guy is in downtown New York City when
it is A-bombed and all he is gets is one cut on the head and some long-term
tendency toward cancer?  The fact that only three bombs were dropped (NYC,
Washington, and Houston--which just *happens* to be the narrator's home town)
make this considerably less realistic than, say, THREADS.  (See recent extended
discussion from net.sf-lovers on this topic.)

I think it's the telling in the first-person singular that gets to people.  I'm
not sure what I'd recommend instead, but this just didn't grab me the way it
did most people who have talked about it.  Other comments, anyone?

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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