Surprisingly Sunny

So I just finished James Howard Kunstler's World Made By Hand. Hell of a good read -- I usually don't read entire books in one sitting, but that's pretty much what I did here. If you've read The Long Emergency, a non-fiction look at peak oil, you'd know that Kunstler takes a pretty dim view of humanity. The fictional version, though, is much sunnier.

There's no great plot here, other than a man's attempt to survive in a world without oil. There's a decent cast of characters, but the real meat of the story is in the everyday details -- gardening, making meals, community building, and family in a very, very different world.

Regardless of whether or not you subscribe to peak oil (and you'd have to be a bit of an idiot to argue that we'll never run out of oil), it's worth picking up.

Four-and-a-half stars.