George Allan England (1877–1937)

Overall this is a pretty solid book, it has a very pulpy storyline but the writing is far better than you might expect from 1920.
The hero/super-villain of the story is an ex-army guy, who's somehow a millionaire and inventor extraordinaire. He also only likes to be referred to as 'The Master' (one of his many super-villain traits). Bored he decides to recruit some other ex-military types for an unknown venture. These are joined unexpectedly by the mysterious Captain Alden who wears a face mask to cover his disfigured continence.
Part one of the plan involves high treason against the United States, part two of the plan involves a military assault on Mecca.
This is an insane story and some might have a problem with the way muslims are depicted, however while a lot of the characters hate muslims the writer and his main character seem to really like the culture of the middle-east countries.
The Master is constantly spouting muslim sayings, he never says thank god but rather thanks Allah etc.
As i mentioned this is a pulp story-wise and it has some crazy pulp technology thrown in here and there. The characters you don't really get to know too well, but the not knowing is quite compelling.
In the end its a little longer than i would have liked and the descriptive writing while beautiful, can be a bit overdone but the story was compelling and insane which i liked.… (más)

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Good premise--man and woman suddenly wake up to find themselves the only living humans in the world after mysteriously sleeping for 1000 years.

Terrible execution--Two thirds of the story they're searching around for food and water (and somehow they find everything so magically easily), and the last third is a fight with semi-sentient monkeys that have somehow evolved from black men because, alas, the white man has died out and they had no one to civilize them!

Poor writing as well, from the first to the last page it's all exclamations (about a dozen of them are repeated all over and over again) about how the world changed. After the zillionth time, it does get boring. And the amount of scientific mistakes is astounding as well.

I downloaded the complete trilogy thinking I've done myself a favor, given it's about the size of one book, I thought it would be full of action and stuff. It wasn't. It sucked.

The only reason I'm giving this book one whole stars is because it had a good idea. Otherwise, the characters and the story both sucked to an awful degree.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.… (más)