The End of October Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Lawrence Wright
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
532

The End of October by Lawrence Wright Book Summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—a riveting thriller and “all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation” (The Wall Street Journal).

At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution.

As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright’s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer.

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Book Name The End of October
Genre Mysteries & Thrillers
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.95 MB

The End of October (Lawrence Wright) Book Reviews 2024

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Contrived. Was not thrilled by the ending it was expected and that is disappointing when you can anticipate what the outcome of a story will be. Also did not develop the other characters as they should have. I found the lead character‘s family much more interesting than a lead character. Wish the author would’ve taken the time to develop those characters fully. I purchased this book after hearing the author on NPR , his interview was very interesting and I had high hopes for this book.

Very topical for these days we’re living in!. Am unnervingly accurate of another pandemic that could go waaaaay worse than what we’ve wheat been through, but that could STILL happen, if humanity is not careful! A great read, thriller-like and totally engaging. Wow!!

Outstanding. This is what a really deadly virus pandemic would look like. COVID-19 is a walk on the park compared to the virus pandemic portrayed in this novel. The timing of this book is pretty scary seeing as how it was released in April 2020, meaning that the author wrote it well before the COVID-19 outbreak even began. Great book. Very well written. Exciting, thrilling, and down right scary.

Cool. That was an intense buildup. Kept me reading. However, sometimes it jumped ahead leaving me wondering what’s happening.

Very poignant for these current times. I did find that it took awhile for the storyline to progress and I found it difficult initially to fully engage for the first few chapters. However, after those initial slower chapters that were heavy on character development rather than plot building, the pacing seemed to pick up and the story moved a long at a much more engrossing pace. If you can get past the first few chapters and hang in there it is a worthwhile read and endlessly fascinating. There were a lot of big jumps in the timeline/ storyline that I would have liked to have been addressed better and built out more, rather than just expecting the reader to catch up and fill in the blanks (seems a more appropriate format for a movie rather than a novel), but, overall a good, solid read. It was very well researched and informed and gives one a better understanding of the nuanced dynamics of pandemics/ novel diseases and the extreme risk they pose to our society, which most behave as if our way of life is invincible. Reading this book I now see how a novel virus could quickly get beyond anyone’s control and wreak complete havoc on every dimension of life. One of the biggest complications with pandemics being the fear and suspicion of others which this book highlights very realistically. In most crisis, people tend to come together and support one another. With an invisible deadly virus, it instead distances communities so that they don’t have the societal safety net that has gotten them through past disasters. We are seeing that now as our country has never been more divided or simply outright hostile to each other. It’s truly sad to see what humanity has chosen to be during this Covid crisis with so many examples of hate, violence and ignorance. I do recommend this read not only for entertainment but for better understanding of the current crisis we are facing with Covid and why the measures that are being taken are necessary to ensure not only our survival but our way of life.

Feh. Caricature characters.

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The The End of October book written by Lawrence Wright was published on 28 April 2020, Tuesday in the Mysteries & Thrillers category. A total of 532 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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