"Lucifer's Hammer" and "footfall" anyone read them?

[dawgman]

The reason I ask is that all the threads I have seen in the last year about whether or not people have their end of civilization kits ready reminds me of the stories.

[Raenelle]

1. I read Lucifer's Hammer--one of the best first half's ever

n/t

[dawgman]

2. Didn't like the epic final battle against the evil cannibals?

[Raenelle]

5. It was OK, but the build-up, before the meteor hit,

was just one of the best page-turners I've ever read.

[kaitykaity]

3. Yah, I read LH years ago.

My favorite scene is when, after the comet hits and they
go up to the cabin and other people are there, and the
guy tries to assert his ownership, and everybody laughs at
him.

Kind of tells you what humans can be like when
the veneer of civilization is stripped away.

That was a great book.

[dawgman]

4. My favorite parts were the ones in italics describing the devestation

after the it hits. That and the anthorpologist who goes blind and has his student describe the end to him.

[JackSwift]

6. I read it a few decades ago

I found it offensive fascist propaganda, but like all Niven books, a good read. The Pournelle collaborations just stink of fascism. I can't believe some univsersity gave this guy a Phd in Political Science

[dawgman]

7. Definitely a propaganda book but still a good

entertaining story.

[midnight armadillo]

10. That's Pournelle in a nutshell

His political theory is like an odious mixture of laissez-faire economics and fascist politics. I thought these two books were fun when I was 14 or so (Niven DOES have a great imagination), but I don't think I could stand to read them now.

[Patriot_Spear]

8. Read 'em both, even had dinner with Niven once...

I've had a hard time reading Larry since I found out he was a republican.

What a shanme.

[dawgman]

9. that seemed clear to me by the tone of those books.

The emergency preparedness tones of those books I find interesting in retrospect. There are threads adn thoughts around these days that I haven't read or heard (outside fringe survival groups) since the cold war ended.

[Rowdyboy]

11. Loved Lucifer's Hammer

will look for footfall