Level 7 (Library of American Fiction) by Mordecai Roshwald
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Book Reviews of Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)
Book Review: Brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read this book during my schooldays, some 15 years ago, and it remained in my mind ever since. Im really happy that I finally found it at amazon and that i can wonder again into its fascinating and inspirational pages. Definitately the best story I ever read about the end of the world. And the ending.... ah the ending... i was with tears in my eyes...Book Review: No Escape from Consequences of Nuclear War
Summary: 5 Stars
Unique story about missile launch operator along with hundreds others sent into Level 7 bunker prior to outbreak of all out nuclear war and then left to live the rest of their life underground. A hint of 1984 in that everything is provided for them and lives are managed by an unknown and unseen party. Interesting and compelling read.Book Review: Old friend
Summary: 5 Stars
Finding this book on Amazon was like discovering a long-lost old friend. I first read it in 1971, and that book was old and falling apart. The tale it tells of deep underground 'button-pusher's' is an interesting psychological study, and is not your typical doomsday book. I highly recommend it.Book Review: Still giving me chills 40 years later
Summary: 4 Stars
As a child, I devoured every science fiction book at our local library. I was confined to the Juvenile section (Mushroom Planet series! The White Mountains! A Wrinkle in Time!) until age 12, when youthful patrons were allowed to cross the divide and browse for books in the (gasp) Adult section.
Rather than provide a review, I will quickly share that the book is perhaps too intense for sensitive (e.g. younger) readers. Someday, I may read it again, but sadly I had nightmares for years after reading the book as a child. It was my first encounter with post-apocalyptic literature, and the themes presented in the book seriously affected my rather naive world view.
If you're a parent of a precocious reader, you may want to take a look before little junior dives in so you can be prepared to answer questions and discuss the implications of nuclear annihilation. It would have been comforting to me to have had a little guidance on this one!
Book Review: First apocalyptic book I ever read - spent the next 50 years full of dread
Summary: 3 Stars
I read Level 7 when I was in 7th grade, just after I read 1984 and and just before I read Brave New World. 1963? I was living in Florida at the time, practicing hiding under our desks in case the Cubans nuked us. Our neighbors down the street had a fall out shelter, and a shot gun to keep the rest of us out if it had to come down to that. It seemed pretty likely to me at the time that we were going to die any minute.Today Level 7 seems pretty dated. But then it seemed like the simple truth.
These days we are going to die any minute from global warming (what do people think is going to happen? Tidal waves are going to wipe out New York and the entire East Coast? The oceans rising an inch a year is probably something we can plan around.)Before that, I had plenty of duct tape and plastic for the chemical attack. Prior to that, I think I was worried about Ebola. I forget why I was keeping a 6 month supply of food in the basement in the seventies.
These books are like worry - they help us imagine the worst and practice coping. Of course, in books like Level 7, no coping is possible. I prefer it when those of us who are very very clever might survive.