End So I've just finished reading Nevil Shute's On the Beach, and let me tell you it's one gloomy and mournful book. I watched Threads (1984) about a month back on a whim, and it both destroyed and captivated me; I was left never wanting to see the film again and wanting to immediately re-watch clips, largely because few pieces of media ever feel so real and immersive. The premise of a Nuclear War and its ramifications is so genuinely terrifying because it could (relatively easily) happen tomorrow, the devices capable of turning the entire world into a hellscape like Threads are sitting in silos as I write this and thousands of engineers are sitting there monitoring for signs of an escalation that would warrant using them. It was whilst browsing reviews for Threads on Reddit that I came across a user comparing it to On the Beach, and after briefly searching up the plot I went out and bought it the next day. Spoilers ahead for the whole book. In stark contrast to Threads, On...