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This book was interesting and definitely intriguing. The narration differed between chapters despite it all being portrayed as a written history of the events of the world by one author. It was a different take on the post apocalyptic world than I‘ve read before & I enjoyed this new take (for me). Makes me think more about what it would be like to be in a hotel when th world ended as we knew it. Overall entertaining read, but will not read again

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. ?

...American behavior because they have too much information."

I haven't decided how many stars I want to give this. Somewhere between 3-5. I want to see how long it stays with me. The ending hits hard even though you know what's coming. Maybe because the characters are mostly ignoring? or disbelieving of what is going to happen.

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3.5/5

This strange, speculative story takes place immediately after a nuclear disaster where a group of wealthy people have pre-paid to stay in safety at a hotel. The narrator and the other guests become increasingly disconnected from the world outside the hotel as they face censorship and their inability to adjust psychologically to what has happened. It's a quick and unsettling read told from the perspective of an unreliable narrator.