The End of the World Running Club: The ultimate race against time post-apocalyptic thriller

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While a small part of this book is certainly about running (and it's clear our author has experienced a runners wall, high and all the emotions and pains that come with it); the reality is it's really just your average the world went to hell the moment we lost amenities book.

I didn’t understand some of the characters motivations, but I am guessing a character like Edgar wouldn’t care either.Waiting to see what crazy challenge was going to come up next was part of what made this novel interesting; every time you think they've caught a break, something else comes up. Ed's character arc from inviting the end of the world to running across a continent for his family was lovely. At that moment, I was thinking it should have been Bryce or even Harvey (Richard's death would have been too sad for Richard's son, though, fucking Richard, man. A group of seven set out: three soldiers, who seem to take charge, and four men from very different backgrounds. Ed and his family were very lucky (no real thanks to Ed) to survive the apocalyptic event that ravaged Edinburgh, Britain, and probably much of the Northern Hemisphere.

Her refusal to believe in Ed is deep-rooted and frustrating but completely understandable given how useless and unhappy he was when the apocalypse rained down on them. But mine was free now, for the first time since I was a boy, running with a grin like a wolf through moonlit bracken. Overall I really enjoyed this one, I read it over 2 sittings whilst gulping down lots of cups of tea, it is one of those books that you just bang through because you have to know where the journey ends. And not only that, but he'd also hated runners because he thought they were just showing off, rubbing it in his face with their long strides as he stood outside a pub smoking a cigarette. There's a cataclysmic event, despair, survival, hope and hopelessness, the exploration of human nature, an incredible journey, etc.Der Kampf kleiner Gruppen Überlebender gegeneinander hält den Spannungsbogen in Walkers Endzeitroman gespannt, auch wenn ein Icherzähler sicher überleben wird, um seine Geschichte niederschreiben zu können. As Edgar's journey develops he meets a variety of different characters along the way, some repellant, some very likeable. Gross cruelty, selfishness, cowardice and a hunger for power are countered with valour, incredible kindness, amazing generosity and altruism. The argument could be made that the book tries to mitigate against this by having two of the running club be from working class backgrounds, but when filtered through the viewpoint of our middle class narrator, they remain different and other to him. A normal fellow finds himself a country and an apocalypse away from his family, with time running out.

The running doesn't start until quite a long way into the story, and then I felt it wasn't quite what I'd been expecting. After the country is decimated by meteors survivors must cross the UK by Christmas to escape to the Southern hemisphere. Wenn ich ein Buch nicht beende, da es schlecht geschrieben ist, bekommt es von mir auch nur einen Stern. When the world ends and you find yourself stranded on the wrong side of the country, every second counts.Grabbing the only shelter he could think of he secreted his family (he, wife and their two children) away into their cellar while asteroids worked their horrors. I'm not even going to go into that, he was our light relief and our conscience in a lot of ways - definitely a character I'd like to know more about away from the rest.

I guess this is supposed to endear readers to him, to make us think "Wow, he hates to exercise so much but he's willing to run all those miles to get to his family, he must love them. Nun verschanzt er sich mit Frau und Kindern in einem Kellerraum – ein sinnloses Unterfangen, wenn man keine Vorräte angelegt hat. Throughout his adventures, he encounters others who are doing their best to survive, and of course many who have turned savage.I would recommend this one to people wanting to try a dystopian, but probably not hardcore fans of the genre.