My copy of Lucifer's Hammer came home yesterday

[catmandu57]

I'd loaned it to my brother to read years ago, he never read it, so I took it back.
I'd forgotten how small the print was, it's going to take forever to read it again.

[phantom power]

1. That was a good book.

I think my favorite bit was the scene with the surfers catching the Ultimate Wave.

[catmandu57]

2. Yes that was the part I wanted him to read

Alone now over a mile inland, he looked back and didn't see the 30 story apartment building approaching like a flyswatter.
I liked that part too.

[Rowdyboy]

3. Its one of my favorite "post-apocalypse" novels....

If I can find it, I'd love to reread it.

[krispos42]

4. Ah, an excellent read.

I've read it three or four times, but not in several years. The descriptions of the comet fragments striking the Earth like a shotgun blast on a watermelon was impressive. Taking a year for the ocean to fight it's way to the sea impact craters, cubic miles of ocean boiling away by the hour, a giant column of steam forming a permenant super-hurricane

Niven and Pournelle work very well together. "The Mote in God's Eye" was an excellent book as well.