Rarely has a book started faster, or better. By page 8, our protagonist is roaming across the USA as one of the very few survivors of a plague that has almost wiped out mankind. This is a situation that I've often fantasized about, and that Douglas Coupland has even invented a term for: survivulousness.

The next 330 pages don't disappoint either. The author doesn't indulge himself in masturbatory philosophizing but concentrates on a realistic portrayal of how life could go on in such a world.