The first four chapters would make an amazing short story about an asteroid(s) impact on Earth. I rate those four chapters 5 out of 5. And then the rest of the book comes... and ruins the magic. Quite a dark read but with enough glimmers of hope so it's not all doom and gloom... there is a sense of optimism despite the traumatic circumstances. He says this so many times he sounds like a broken record. I guess this is supposed to endear readers to him, to make us think "Wow, he hates to exercise so much but he's willing to run all those miles to get to his family, he must love them." Loud, rattling footsteps on wooden stairs. Another bang, then silence again. A police siren whooped twice, far in the distance, possibly in Edinburgh itself.

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Suddenly, the air-raid siren stopped. The air around us seemed to lurch in the silence as if we’d all just hurled ourselves over a cliff edge.

People are idiots .Awkward bundles of conflicting desires with a single destination:death.It's no wonder we never got anything done in the days of Kate Winslet.I mean,we thought we did, we thought we've made progress,byt we could have had the internet in the fifteenth century if we'd only stopped drowning witches for a second.''

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Did you read the book? What did you think of the story? The ending? How do you think it turned out for Ed? Do you think he'll continue running? Faces at the window trying to get in, trying to get to us. One of the square panes of glass in the door broke and a fist came through it.I once saw a film about a girl who survives an apocalyptic event. It was some unnamed worldwide cataclysm; we weren’t told the details. She lives on this farm in middle America, and when it all starts happening, the first thing her father does is turn on all the taps in the house. She says, “What’s happening, Daddy?” and he replies, “I don’t know, honey; I don’t know,” and starts pelting around the rooms filling baths and sinks. I loved Beth’s reflections on marriage not being a straight line but “lots of fragments[good and bad] cobbled together” and not “gazing into each other’s eyes” but “looking in the same direction”. Ed Hill is never going to win “Father of the Year”, he would much rather leave all parental responsibility to his long suffering wife. He even manages to sleep through the ominous warnings of the night before – well, the night before near total devastation of the world as we know it. But it is only when he is separated from his wife and young children that he suddenly realises how much he loves them and wants to protect them. If you could only choose five things to save at the end of the world (not including food and water) what would they be and why?

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I thought I saw some eyes dart at me through the glass panel of the door into the house, but when I looked again, they were gone. I'm actually not sure why I kept reading The End of the World Running Club to the end. So let's look at what was good and what was bad.

I waffled a bit on my rating for this book. I definitely had some grumbles while reading it, but then I got to that ending, one of the most perfect endings I've ever read, and my earlier protests felt petty. A good friend of mine has grumbled, "There's no happy endings with you, is there?" about my writing and my taste in books, shows, and films, and it's all too true. I thought this ending was bittersweet perfection. Tragic, but hopeful, and I love that.