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Title: The Switch 2001
Author: John Sullins
Narrator: Dale Hargis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-17-17
Publisher: John Sullins
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
A businessman was attending a companywide meeting in Chicago when all power fails. Cars and trucks stop, planes fall from the sky, and cell phones fail. Everything that has anything to do with the movement of electrons is useless. Not knowing the cause of the failure or how long it will last, he is forced to make a decision to sit it out in Chicago or try to get home to his wife in Alabama.
Members Reviews:
The Switch by John Sullins
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Switch this book with something else
Ugh. What a preposterous story with a despicable cast of characters.
The "hero" is, quite frankly, a major jerk. He and a co-worker narrowly avoid dying when the plane they were to catch leaves without them . The power goes out, an old man opines about an EMP, and our protagonist is suddenly an expert on something he has never heard of before. They trek across Chicago to the nearest Sears, and the co-worker cuts his leg on a chain link fence, which results in his near death. Nonetheless, the jerk abandons his friend, loads up his 52 year old rear end on a mountain bike along with everything he needs to face the end of civilization, and embarks on a 700 mile bicycle trip down I-70. Along the way, he rifles the pockets of dead airline passengers, picks up his family (including three children), beats a preacher, kills about ten teenagers with a .22, kills deer with the .22, and lives off the junk food in vandalized convenience stores.
When he arrives in Alabama, he procures his neighbors' houses for his adult children, goes fishing and catches a dozen fish a night, executes a peeping tom, takes whatever he wants, and sees himself as a good guy, even though he is actually a murdering thief.
Right in the middle of the book, we find out he was actually once upon a time law enforcement, which apparently in the author's mind confers superhuman qualities on a man.
The friend abandoned at Sears? Oh, he pedaled a mountain bike across the Rocky Mountains in the fall from Chicago to Seattle,arrived at home and found out his family was in Portland, rode to Portland, discovered they had never arrived, and got shot in the face and died.
I hate this book.
What if the plug got pulled?
This is certainty not the first story written about solar storms wrecking all things electrical, nor will it be the last. The storyline and characters, though, are excellent.
There is a handful of typographical errors, but if you overlook those you will be rewarded with a read that leaves you asking about your own ability to survive if we were suddenly without electricity.
Poorly written. Punctuation and phrasing a disaster. Partial ...
Poorly written. Punctuation and phrasing a disaster. Partial sentences that make no sense. The ending is abrupt, apparently without thought. No plot.
Not the Switch
The book that I downloaded called "The Switch" ended up being called
"From the Beginning "-which is a completely different storyline than The Switch