World Made by Hand: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780802144010
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In The Long Urgent situation celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the mortal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to place manufacturing civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge. For the townspeople of Union Orchard, New York, the future is nothing like they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and treacherous, so food is grown locally at fantastic expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president, and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren’t sure. Their challenges play out in a dazzling, fully realized world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses effective the fields and rivers, no longer polluted, and replenished with fish. With the cost of oil skyrocketing—and with it the fee of food—Kunstler’s extraordinary book, full of like and loss, violence and power, sex and drugs, depression and desperation, but also plenty of hope, is more significant than ever.
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Loose ends at the end. A rush job near the end and where is nuclear winter? If and when the bombs go off life will never even be close to what the leader is adage…geez..what a waste of precious time. Don’t bother with this one.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Kuntsler bases his novel on such half-baked theories that I was unable to appreciate any merit it might otherwise deserve.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
In the Long Urgent situation Kunstler is a fiction writer who attempted to awaken Americans to an impending doomsday scenario in the energy world. Kunstler argues that nothing can make a difference and everything in a “huge box America” is terrible. If you like far left liberal authors who have no scientific basis then this guy is perfect. Here is a guy who predicted that $140 a barrel oil would never go down as it currently stands at $80. Now that he has been dead incorrect about oil prices he has shifted his emphasis to ranting about the financial sector. The guy has no credibility as he shifts back from non-fiction to fiction and fiction to non-fiction in his books and additional writings.
If the guy was just a fiction writer he would be in the mediocre category with World Made by Hand. If you have already read The Long Urgent situation and see how off Kunstler is you won’t waste your time with the World Made by Hand. If you are considering World Made by Hand as a stand alone book it is honest at best so there are better ways to spend your money. To make a long tale fleeting Kunstler is just another Sierra Club type trying to deliver another Y2K tale to make a buck and a name for himself. If the poor guy had ongoing with fiction and stayed there he may have had a chance. A bring shame on.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This resident of the Moron Crescent that Kunstler hatefully smears at every opportunity in his blog establish his book underwhelming.
I will continue to read his blog online though. I find his relentless call for everyone less smarter than he is ( which seems to be everyone) to embrace his priviliged vision of a future world that would make an open grave cheery so helpful.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
the leader follows the part line, the only difficulty is that the party line is mormon. a group who judge in burkas, only persons worn under clothing, as is the infamous mormon underwear that women and men are required to PURCHASE and wear under regular underwear. right…read the Bible again, couldn’t find anything about wearing underwear in the Sermon on the Mount or anywhere else. but kuenslter follows the moron propaganda path, women are not heard, but busy cooking and being used in “classic” ways. and of course, the mormon precept of “white and delightful” excoriated from kuenslter’s text the “additional” races. it’s a small bizarre that mormons continue to set out their greased cult sound bites in order to suck in the non-thinkers, additional nepotists who are willing to swallow the swill of the (non)-”prophets” and all the “end of the world” stuff that they seem to hope for. the world won’t end. but hopefully, mormons in publishing will.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5