WHERE CAN YOU HIDE WHEN THE EARTH WANTS YOU DEAD? In the all-too-immediate future, the day has finally come when crime, drugs, and pollution have made the cities of the world virtually uninhabitable. Gangs roam the streets at will, the police have nearly surrendered, and the air and water are slowly killing the residents who remain. But one small group of survivors has decided to escape the madness. Packing what they can carry, they head off to what they hope will be the unspoiled wilderness of northern Canada, intent on making a new start, a new life. But nature isn't that forgiving. For far too long mankind has destroyed the planet, ravaging the landscape and slaughtering the animals. At long last, nature has had enough. Now the Earth is ready to fight back, to rid itself of its abusers. A new day has come. But will anyone survive...
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Smells like a Skunk.,
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This review is from: The Dawning (Mass Market Paperback)
I love "end of civilization" novels, where a band of rag tag individuals from all walks of life come together and try to forge a new utopia of their own. So in picking up "The Dawning" with the statement on the back stating "where can you hide when the earth wants you dead?" I eagerly dived into it.
The premise is this, sometime in the future the US is taken over by crime and pollution and drugs and the busy cities that at one point seemed fortress like and safe are now ominous and crumbling. A Small group of people, who know each other through a friend of a friend of a friend, decide to pack up and leave and enter the wilderness to start a new life. We have a teacher, a pharmacist, a doctor a computer expert, an outdoorsman (who takes the leader role with gusto) a business woman, a student, a former model, and a farm girl, oh and a miniature greyhound named Rambi. The narrator is Don Neal the teacher, who is the only one without a woman to accompany him into the woods. We get the usual preparation, where everyone has to decide what to bring and leave, the sadness the apprehension, wondering just who you are about to go all "Littlehouse" with forever. I had a hard time getting into the book in the beginning, mostly because we had nine people to meet and know right off. I didn't get a good handle on any one of them not even the main voice. From there we see them travel, and have some hiccups, and I was just waiting for something to happen, anything really, if this is a horror novel. Again I return to the "the earth wants you dead" statement, Ok where is the follow through? It read to me more like a story about some paranoid farm man who has leadership issues and everyone wants to overthrow him but cannot. Their car breaks down, Yawn, they meet some locals, Yawn, the narrator has amazing sex with a "homely waitress" triple Yawn. FINALLY they get to the stinking woods and we start getting mutants...A three eyed frog, which by itself is only scary if you are a jealous Cyclops. We get a kill by an unseen giant hawk which leaves a terrifying giant feather, a skeleton is found and it may or may not have been pushed by a bear or maybe possible murdered? Then we have a smelly but again unseen giant skunk that is possessive about its mushroom patch murder two people, another 3 eyed frog but this time it's gigantic and eats someone, throughout as these people are picked off they just stay where they are! Ok, they just left a drug infested polluted city where they were maybe in fear of being shot or having eczema and they trade it for a forest full of invisible giant amphibians that kill, I think I would rather deal with the druggies and wear some sunscreen. They all soon figure out, that the leader they hate has been offending nature somehow and nature is biting back, he killed a frog he killed a hawk he shot at a skunk.....and nature is obviously blind so it killed everyone BUT the offender. He gets what is coming to him after he tinkles on the sand by their water source even after being told "we drink this water" and the sand swallows him up whole. Yep, that was the big scary horror ending to this book, the earth opened up like the cave of wonders from Aladdin and ate the bad guy who pee-peed on it. What is left of the group lives happily ever after mating like bunnies and becoming vegetarian tree huggers for life, the end? What a stupid Politically Correct book! What was the point I ask you? Don't F with nature, don't pee in the sand, meat is murder, say no to drugs? I don't recommend The Dawning to anyone who has a brain, who enjoys real horror or who likes their steak rare.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Should have been called "The Yawning",
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This review is from: The Dawning (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm a great fan of appocalyptic fiction, but the story, characters, and writing falls into the same category as a lousy made for t.v. movie. The story is really about a small band of people under the supervision of a college professor and a drunken bigoted outdoorsman. Look at the outdoors man as a Archie Bunker on steroids. The small band leave the rat race behind with the threat that civilization is soon going to meet an impending doom from pollutions, mismanagement of government, and high crime. They sell off all their posessions and hike off to the Great White North of the Canadian wilderness. While stopping at different portages along the trail, the survivalist are picked off one at a time by some freak of nature, in the form of either a giant hawk, frog or skunk (I'm not making this up). I'm guessing that this is Hugh's first book, since the character developement was left somewhere on the back burner along with a decent plot. The situations where quite predictable, and by page 10 you figure out who in the group is going to be the "bad guy that gets it in the end". The thought of earth itself being the deadly antagonist was promising when mentioned on the back cover, but how the idea was handled within the book was very slipshod. Over all, the story the story stops short with a 2 page epilogue of what happens next. Like the author didn't really know how to end this abysmal story. My recommendation is to skip this clunker.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The title hints at so many meanings,
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This review is from: The Dawning (Mass Market Paperback)
Who hasn't at least considered the possibility that our actions will one day destroy our planet? In THE DAWNING, prolific writer Hugh B. Cave takes us on a journey to a not-so-distant time when the earth has finally been ravaged by pollution, senseless violence and total disregard for nature. A small group of survivors decides to abandon the dangerous city and strike out for the north Canada wilderness. Equipping themselves with canoes, basic food staples, weapons and small tools, these 10 people start on a quest to find an unpolluted haven to live out the rest of their lives. What they don't anticipate is that nature has taken on a more active role in protecting her remaining resources. Each member of the group soon discovers that a desire for survival is not enough. Cuyler, the group's self-proclaimed woodsman, kills animals with abandon and treats everyone around him with disdain. He, too, soon discovers that his actions have dire consequences for himself and everyone else.
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