World Made by Hand
Ratings8
Average rating2.8
2.5 stars. I read it in less than a day and a half. Yet it didn't feel particularly well written and I never felt particularly attached to any of the characters. A good vacation read.
I gave up on this book without even making it half-way through, which is pretty rare for me.
Read this for the Luther Seminary book club. Some of us liked it and some of us hated it. The story did not go in any of the directions I expected, which was a good thing. I was impressed with how fully Kunstler had imagined the post-industrial-collapse world and with how the losses and difficulties popped up all through the story, so that I was constantly thinking, “Oh, I hadn't thought about THAT.” There wasn't much to the story itself, but those details made it interesting. I enjoyed it, but probably won't read the rest of the trilogy.
Extremely engrossing read. It's easy to romanticize the not-too-distant past, longing for a simpler time. But this book illuminates better than many how much we'd truly loose if catastrophe forced society to return to pioneer-like days. Some things are better, but some are much, much worse.