The Day After Tomorrow

by Whitley Strieber | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0743489063 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 5/13/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Saturday, May 13, 2006
I picked up this fair-condition paperback at a local library book sale - probably wouldn't have bothered with it for anything over a quarter but at that price, what the heck!

As I am fond of the whole "disaster-movie" genre I had seen the film of which this is the novelization. I found bits of it entertaining, but thought that the wildly improbable subplot about the father trekking through a self-proclaimed apocalyptic storm to find his son was given too much screen time and badly undercut the whole point of the story... though I guess some people would say that was the point of the story with the storm as window-dressing. Oh, well.

The book is quite decent as film-novelizations go, and I liked the fact that it presents more of a balance between the worldwide chaos and tragedy caused by the storm and the personal lives of the central family. It included some chilling tidbits about the highways jammed with frozen heroes - er, victims, sorry, got to channeling Springsteen there! - and how millions of people were going to be frozen in place and lost to view for years, maybe centuries, as the snows deepened; the film managed to gloss over all that more quickly, which was a shame as the imagery would have been most impressive.

The book also put somewhat greater emphasis on the message that, while the earth's climate is in constant flux and could change drastically at any time regardless of what we do, there's a chance that mankind might be able to forestall some kinds of climate shifts if we paid closer attention to what we're doing. How true that is I do not know, but it's something to ponder...

[There's a TV Tropes page on the film, with some entertaining tidbits.]

Journal Entry 2 by wingGoryDetailswing at Peddler's Daughter, 48 Main St. in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Monday, May 15, 2006

Released 17 yrs ago (5/15/2006 UTC) at Peddler's Daughter, 48 Main St. in Nashua, New Hampshire USA

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Since it's been raining for two straight days and most of the high-rainfall and flood-level records for the area have been broken, I figured a book about weird weather made a suitable release - though I hope that the flooding doesn't get quite as disastrous as that in the book! I left the book propped up in the window outside of the Peddler's Daughter at around 3:30; then I wandered along the new river-walk to look at the roaring waters cascading over the little dam. That was really impressive by itself, but as I looked at the thundering surf I was astonished to see an immense tree-trunk suddenly appear from beneath the water like a whale breaching, lifted up bodily by the force! It was at least twenty feet long and two feet across, and the water rolled it around and dunked it with terrifying ease... Tried to get a picture but it won't convey the sheer power of all that water!

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