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Malevil Hardcover – January 1, 1973

by Robert Merle (Author), Derek Coltman (Translator)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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Text: English, French (translation)
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  1. Print length
    575 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Simon and Schuster
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1973
  5. ISBN-10
    0671216007
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0671216009
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon and Schuster; 1st edition (January 1, 1973)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 575 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671216007
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671216009
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.1 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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Laurence
5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent apocalypse
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2012
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This genre of books is popular now because the United States can easily fall into economic collapse with our present Marxist leader. The "Bomb" will not cause the slide into chaos as this book portends, but a similar collapse of lawlessness could occur. This story is so well written and complex that it deserves a top rating of five stars, and a top ranking among the "top ten" of apocalyptic books. I have read all the books on that list, and this one is the most believable from many points: character development, story line, realism, accuracy, and human pathos. The main character is not a super-human killing machine that knows the answer to all the situations, but I still would like to be in his cadre of survivors. Only female readers will be disappointed in their gender's actions, because most of them would never admit to permitting sex with several men, and liking it. Only if more books were this good. Oh, and did I mention that rampant cursing didn't exist when this was written? Laurence
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Melonie K.
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best in post-apocalypse reading
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2013
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Malevil is a must-read for anyone who enjoys the post-apocalyptic genre. If you can find a copy, definitely grab it and give it a read. Some of the gender role stuff will be an eye-roller for today's readers, but that's pretty common in this vein anyway. Lots to ponder - and who wouldn't want to live in a castle if we're going to get sent back to the Dark Ages?
If you have read Alas, Babylon and enjoyed it, you should definitely tackle Malevil next.
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Capt Bill
4.0 out of 5 stars GOOD BOOK!
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2017
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Many would think the subject matter of this book is dated. That doesn't take away from the fact that it is a GREAT story!
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best of end of the world genre!
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2020
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Very realistic view of how people would need to cope with survival at the end of modern civilization.
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KDM
5.0 out of 5 stars It is an excellent book, one that I will read again
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2014
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I recently reread this book after reading it for the first time 25 years ago. It is an excellent book, one that I will read again! I have read many of Merle's book and I would recommend the Fortunes of France series, and The virility factor.
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Action Raccoon 79
1.0 out of 5 stars Could have been one of the best...but it wasn't
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2016
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"Sign" Once again I read a book with a wonderful start and given a bunch of characters to see who lives and dies. Who becomes likeable and unlikeable. My main problem with this novel is their wasn't a lot of characters I liked and with one annoying characters Thomas an somewhat friend and rival of main character Emmanuel Comte and his reason is just plan jealously. Emmanuel has everything and Thomas doesn't so there are parts in the book where Thomas adds his own dairy entry stating Emmanuel is a lair and he is telling the truth of what's happening.

I was getting the feeling that Thomas would try to kill or betray Emmanuel just to rule the castle Malevil but it never happened. Emmanuel gets killed off unseen in the book as Thomas states that a town mob hunted his friend down for killing two evil leaders of a rival faction who just wanted whatever was in Malevil. Even Emmanuel had little I cared about him sure he bought a cool castle repaired it and ran a job with the schools allowing him to do tours of it just to earn money to keep it from falling apart. However Emmanuel is too religious and even the last pages of him only eating bread and drinking red wine out of the bible I was getting bored with this. And just giving himself up for the sake of letting those back in the castle to live in peace when he had enough weapons and people to fight back?! What is it with writers just throwing away the characters like that?! I read the same damn thing in Stephen King's The Stand which was total piece of crap!

Only thing I liked about Malevil was the idea of a bunch of people trying to survive while staying in a castle. Dispute it's detail with Malevil and other things there were some questions I wanted to know such as who dropped the bomb on France and was Paris destroyed or still standing? The book doesn't go further or anywhere outs the whole story is mainly set where Malevil is and a town where the rival faction is. Only answer I got that the bomb wasn't a nuke which meant whoever dropped planned on invading France and ruling it but who? This could have been a great book but it wasn't.
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Connie Mann
5.0 out of 5 stars Updating library to hard bindings on all favorite books
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015
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Read this when it was published, needed it in hard bound.
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RPS
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2019
Wish I could buy it in Kindle format, in English.
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