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The Last Canadian (1974)

by William C. Heine(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 7

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

pocket book

review 1: The Last Canadian was published in the seventies but apart from technicalities could have been written in the fifties. The style is very quaint and in particular the depiction of women. It's a post apocalyptic book, of course, with the disaster in this case some sort of plague which may or may not have been caused accidentally. The writing is very disjointed, the scene changes from a guy in the backwoods of America to a meeting of the Politburo with no break apart from a paragraph, which I thought was pretty poor. Like many PA books, The Last Canadian is essentially a road trip for Gene, the main character. He travels somewhere, finds everything he wants without trouble, stays a while and then moves on. Every now and then he faces some sort of peril but the reader soon rea... morelises that it's only a token gesture to provide some drama. Gene's rinse and repeat story is supported with a sub-plot involving the politics of the wider world and it all stumbles towards a conclusion that, to be fair, could have gone more than one way. The Last Canadian had potential, but it's all a bit too easy for Gene and the disjointed writing style gets in the way of what story there is.
review 2: This was originally published in 1974 and I wonder if Stephen King ever read it while he was preparing THE STAND because there are a lot of similarities. But then this novel has echoes of a lot of other stories and movies too. In the first 50 pages the author kills off the populations of North and South America with a super virulent plague--and that is only the beginning! The action follows one man as he gets his wife and two sons to the upper northern wilds of Quebec...but the story doesn't stop there. This one has more twists and turns in the plot than a bag of epileptic snakes. less

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