1st its a really, really big book. Were talking around the size of “Gone With the Wind” (the full book)
2. the story goes like this:
Its like the end of a nuclear war. You start by reading about a warship and they are trying to find a safe place to live (since they cant stay on the boat forever) and they find an island. The island isn’t contaminated so they decide to live there. they plant food, build houses, and try to write important facts about history in a book (since the records have been destroyed in the war). Then they try to “reproduce” there are way more men than women. So they decide that the women will have houses to themselves and like one group of men to each woman, then the next day they would switch men and so on. So that they will have a better chance of getting pregnant.
Well the captain and the main woman cant participate so that they can be leaders ect. Everybody has to switch partners and pairing off is against the rules. Well it so happens that the captain and the main woman pair off. Then people start dieing. Sry im vague but its been a while. The boat still has 1 nuke left on it and they fight about weather or not to go somewhere and launch it or to leave it on the boat and have the possibility of blowing them up on accident.
Now a russian sub comes to the island, and instead of fighting they decide to be “friends” and help each other. but some of the people don’t like that, and some how the nuke is launched and Everyone has to leave. So they all get on the sub (since the boat is now radiated) and they continue doing the 1group of men to one woman. And they head ttowardsalaska. Well they get to alaska and get fuel and food ect, the women become pregnant (since the russian men wweren’texposed to radiation like the american men were. and the book ends about there.
Please please help me figure out this books name!
Yes!!! thank you soo much!! I read that book in 9th grade and I wanted so bad to read it again (now in college). I’ll be off to the book store to get the last ship!
Again thnx soo much
princessmikey
June 4, 2010 at 8:33 am
Maybe The Last Ship by William Brinkley?
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Ship-William-Brinkley/dp/0345359828
It’s 616 pages, so that part fits!