Swan Song

How many times do I say it? We all have different faces.

And if you've ever read the book Swan Song by Robert McCammon, he put that into perfect view in that book.

In that book, people were afflicted with something called Job's Mask.

And your face was completely corroded and had this growth grow over your whole entire head.

And then when the Job's Mask finally broke, it revealed your true face.

He is an older author.

Most of his stuff really went big in the 80s, so he's not as common or modern if you will but i loved swan song by him and there's boy's life which i did talk about previously but there's another book called mine by him that no one talks about absolutely everyone should it's very much a horror thriller i would say but a woman kidnaps a newborn baby and enforces this child's mother on a desperate race against time to try to save her son from this dangerous woman

Oh, I don't like that.

That's fair.

I mean, really? You're reading Chad Daybell's books? There's nothing else out there that catches your attention? No other great works of literature out there that you want to dive into? If you're looking for an end-of-the-world book, there's a few I can suggest.

How about Swan Song by Robert McCammon? Or how about The Passage by Justin Cronin? Or how about The Stand by Stephen King? We can go on and on and on.

But instead, you're going to read books by Chad Daybell? Tell me you're a jagoff without telling me you're a jagoff.

1.30 p.m. Gilbert saw Chad about once a week, usually at church.

And he still to this day is one of my favorite authors.

This is, he's the same gentleman who wrote Swan Song, which I talked about in one of the previous episodes.

And I read a lot of his books.

They're all fantastic.

Would you comp it to kind of like The Stand by Stephen King in a sense?

No, I would, no.

I would compare Swan Song to The Stand.

They're like almost identical.

Let's look at the despair first.

Coming in at number five is Swan Song by Robert McCammon, published in 1987.

The setup here is a classic Cold War era nightmare.

A whole bunch of nuclear bombs are detonated very early on in the narrative.

Yeah.

This brief period of intense nuclear warfare predictably decimates the vast majority of the world.

But Urquhart highlights a vital difference between the aftermath in Swan Song and the bleak, realistic decay we talked about earlier in On the Beach.

Right.