Just finished listening to this at the office while doing mundane work and had to stop my work many times and completely stop at the end to just dwell on it. A well-written book well-read so that you can really relate to the characters. So much so that you have to break off as it’s too acute and needs thinking about.

@davidcross4487

9 ай бұрын

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Narration makes or breaks a book. Sam Neill has made this book soar. Thank you for 2 hours of pleasurable listening from an Australian listener.

Sobering cautionary tale beautifully read by Sam Neill.

@greatbooksontape782

Жыл бұрын

Made more relevant today since a certain world power has threated to use them.

I read this once, in 1974, while I was in the US Navy, and I've never forgotten it. I'm looking forward to hearing this audiobook version.

This was adapted into a good film starring Gregory Peck I believe. With war going on today, it doesn’t seem like a far reach.

@TERoss-jk9ny

10 ай бұрын

Yep! But the US Navy wouldn’t allow them to film in a nuclear submarine, so they had to use a diesel/electric boat instead. For those with knowledge, it was kind of a let down. All in all, it was a great movie.

@angloaust1575

7 ай бұрын

The remake had a real nuke sub

@rogueriderhood1862

5 ай бұрын

@@angloaust1575 But the remake was rubbish.

Thank you for sharing the amazing book. One of the greatest books ever written.

Sam Neill was the perfect choice. He had an English mother and a New Zealander for a dad, so he had both of the main required accents absolutely naturally! And he is known as a master of acting flexibility. 👍

I remember reading this book years ago. This audio version read by Sam Neill is so very poignant. Wonderful reader.

Excellent audio book !!! Thank You!

Sam Neill rocks!

@joeavery6344

Жыл бұрын

Good looking fella too,. Attack force z.

@henryworthington8261

10 ай бұрын

Nevil Shute pretty good too.

Thankyou so much. Have a seminar on this book next week. Showed up on just the right time ❤️

I was born in 1961! That means something!

I just read the full book and feel it was worth it. Still this is a nicely narrated, abridged version if you don't have the book.

I have this one! Thanks for posting this!❤

I wish that Moira's farewell line, as she stands on the bluff watching the submarine head out on its final voyage, had been in the film.

@poodlesrock2266

9 ай бұрын

In the original with Gregory Peck, that is exactly what Moira does.

Pity its not the whole book. I loved this book. Not sure what Im going to be missing.

It’s a sad but honest tale. Thanks

“Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I’ve decided not to endorse your park.” - Alan Grant, Jurassic Park

Listening for the nth time, still love it ❤

Thanks for the work and efforts you offer us on this channel here. Love from #Liverpool 👋☘️📚

@greatbooksontape782

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that.

Wow. Best audiobook ever . I read and saw the most vie several times, always scared me. Now I find it comforting. We all have to die sometime and this situation has been coming down the pipes for years now. Much love and peace to all of you.

Read this 50 years ago. Now, in 2024, it really doesn't seem like fiction.

@joshwhalen17

4 ай бұрын

I was only born 30 years ago... I think about it every day. The Berlin Wall fell before I was in Pampers, and it seems like humanity has conveniently compartmentalized the threat of nuclear weapons ever since. We live in a world akin to an armed mine left in a room full of Kindergartners.

The one book to make me truly think about being, i hate the idea but i would mercy kill my own animals, Nuclear bombs are scary, radiation more scary. Radiation is indescriminate. Love this book and the very idea

@Howardadams-br3eu

8 ай бұрын

Please let your animals make their own way.

Can someone help me with finding a soft copy of this version of the book?

@greatbooksontape782

Жыл бұрын

There's an ebook version at Rakuten Kobo for 99 cents.

Surprising that Shute foresees Russia/China vs us/nato 6 decades later after the fall of ussr and vast changes in china and nato was still an organization for defense. So much change yet will the outcome be the same?

We need more government!!! Ever look at what we (USA) spend on the military industrial complex... It's staggering,

Does he read the whole book?

@peacenow42

Жыл бұрын

Abridged means not the whole book

I heard to book is better than the film so here I am. The movie was problematic. (spoiler) the world ends, but everyone in the film is just worried about their own petty issues. E.g. Gregory Peck only cares about his wife and child; not the billions of others. The only character who was realistic was Anthony Perkins. Anyway I'm about to listen to this.

@zachhoward9099

6 ай бұрын

He was doomed to die thousands of miles from home and knew he wasn’t with them when the end came. He had intense survivors guilt. For the others it was a literal matter of fact that they could either die painlessly aided by their government who themselves would also die, either painlessly or trying to hang on for a few more days only to die by horrendous radiation sickness. Imagine the paranoia and horror they all faced as Southern Hemisphere cities went dark over the radio. The hopelessness and despair had to have been so thick you could practically taste it

@yamishogun6501

17 күн бұрын

@@zachhoward9099 In a nuclear war, fewer than 1% would die from radiation.

Great audio book, but don’t listen to it while trying to sleep! You’ll have some crazy ass dreams like I did last night!