Life as We Knew It

A Novel

By: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the Moon closer to the Earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun?

As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove.

Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all, hope, in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.

©2006 Susan Beth Pfeffer (P)2006 Random House Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

A dystopian work of fiction w/a different flair.

Recommended dystopian fiction for the lessons contained within if nothing else. From the stance of "A damsel in distress" makes one root for the lead character.

AMAZING!

5 stars TOTALLY

Best book ever
The reader has a really nice voice
Amazing!

Do more!

interesting story

I picked this because my granddaughter was assigned this book in High school. Interesting story, narrarater sounded like a young girl, it will be fun discussing this with my granddaughter.

Good story, but a little too traditional

The story was gripping, depressing, and at times a bit gory. I love the premise. However, I did not love that it was a pretty traditional family... in the sense of gender roles and expectations for women vs men. There was a comment about how "males were more likely to survive than females." Surviving in this situation requires quick thinking and strategy more than anything else. Those aren't gendered concepts. It lacked any kind of diversity in any aspect, so it was hard to connect to, and that turned me off. But overall, it was a good book. The characters were a little 2 dimensional, but I liked seeing how they survived each new situation.

It's a good book, but not audiobook

I couldn't get 5 minutes into the audiobook, and that bothers me because I loved reading the book. I can't get over how the narrator sounds like a fake Disney Channel character.
Looking to return this...

Good book

This is a good book, well written with characters that are very believable that you can sympathize with. Not Ann Frank, but not grossly far off. Others have written that politics and religion should have been left out of the book, but I think that these references certainly belong. One of the characters is expressing her opinion...isn't that normal? Don't people do that all of the time? As for the religious references...isn't that believable too? One of the characters uses the shade of religion to fleece the sheep of his congregation. What is the difference between that and television evangelist and others who continue to live the high life on the contributions of their congregations, contributions that they continue to elicit even now as the economy crumbles?

Pretty good

I didn't like that the girl is quite whiny, but otherwise the story is pretty good.

Pretty good story but delivery was too perky

Delivery of the story is told from a perky point of view which was weird. The Prose is only as good as a 16 year old's journal entry could be.

the book

this is a great book i like of how life was normal this all of this happens. you should really listen to this book ok please listen to it you will love it

A gripping story

This is a gripping story of a family struggling to stay together as everything around them - the entire world - is being torn apart around them.