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Briggs's humour is dark! Jim and Hilda are following the actual advice given to the British public by the government in the event of a nuclear war. That they follow it with the expectation they will survive is part of the humour, the pathos and the tragedy. Jim and Hilda are rather hapless with their malaprops, their vague understanding of global politics, and frequent mixing up of their WWII blitz experience with their present situation. ⬇️

"Cheerio Jim"

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Having just read two novels set in the post-apocalypse, Raymond Briggs's graphic novel is set during one, this of the nuclear kind & focusing on the absurdity of naïve Hilda & Jim Bloggs following the government's advice on "surviving" a nuclear attack by painting their windows white & huddling under a bomb shelter made out of a door.
Loved for his kids books The Snowman & Fungus the Bogeyman, this is mordant adult humour of the blackest sort. ?

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A cradle-to-grave bio of J Robert Oppenheimer. It was fine, I guess.

HAHAHA KIDDING. I'm literally obsessed with this book. I would like to offer a sincere thank-you to Covid, who allowed me the time to sit down and read like 90% of the thing over the course of just a couple of days. The word "engrossed" doesn't even begin to touch how I felt while reading. And also, yes, the book is better.

The outcomes of total war.

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#SundayFunday My daughter & I had this same conversation via text yesterday. She bought a copy of the tagged book for 25 cents. I have 4 copies of this book. While living in Japan in 1990, my husband was sent to the Gulf War. The neighborhood women, where I taught English to 5 Japanese pre-schoolers, made these 1000 paper cranes while praying for my husband. It is my most prized possession & my daughter knows it will be passed on to her. 🗾

Wow. Starts slow, and I don't know enough about Oppie to know how true the first part of the book is, but it was certainly interesting. The second half is where the sci fi comes in. Surprising ending! When all looks lost, science steps up.