A most enjoyable listening experience.

Will Patton did an excellent job. In fact, were it not for such books as Look Homeward, Angel; The Grapes of Wrath; The Book Thief; Time & Unforeseen Occurrence; and a few Russian classics, we would have rated this book a ‘5,’ but such other books do exist. There’s excellent, and then there’s something more, beyond excellence, and perhaps beyond description. (I thought the last sentence of Alas, Babylon was perfect.)

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such a good story.

I just loved this story !! The reader took a couple chapters to get used too. Some awkward pauses . Once I got used to it I was hooked . I love how he gave every character their own voice . The story itself even though old is so relatable . This could very well happen . Excellent Book highly recommend!!!

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Great story, great narrator!

Will Patton is an excellent narrator, even when doing the women's voices, he manages to avoid making them one-dimensional.

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My favourite post-apocalyptic book so far

“One Second After “ was my favourite post-apocalyptic book until I listened to Alas Babylon.
This one is a classic. It has all (and I mean) all that a prepper might wish for in a novel.
Even though it was written in 1959 it is a timeless classic.
Narrator was perfect for this book.
Very happy with my purchase.

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A Great Listen - Highly Recommend

As someone who really enjoys post-apocalyptic novels, I really enjoyed this novel.

At first, listening to Will's narration, I couldn't stop picturing the actor in my mind. it didn't take long though before I was just hearing the characters' voices.

All in all a great story that I would highly recommend.

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really great

I have read the book a few times, but listening was an interesting new way to enjoy it. Absolutely recommend!

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alas Babylon!

I first read this in grade 6 and is still a fast-paced slice of alternate post WW2.
Enjoyed it again.

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Will Patton!!

Will Patton is an excellent narrator and the story is great to listen to through the lenses 2021.

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Why you should read this book.

I was born in the 1960s, and we had a bomb shelter in the basement of our house. In all the years it's the only one I've ever seen, and for that I'm grateful.
There are a very few truly good Apocalypse stories in all the years I've been reading (my whole life).

In the mid 1970s I remember reading Neville Shute's On the Beach and being absolutely terrified, but also strangely drawn to read more. Over the years, Alas Babylon, Lucifer's Hammer as well as The Stand have been my favourite books about what happens in the event of something world-ending, and what can happen after ward. All the zombie flavoured post-apocalyptic books out now, don't deal with truly important things like how does a species really survive after ward? If there's a world left, how do you recover and live? If your bleeping smart phone, internet and every piece of electric equipment you owned went dead today, how would you survive? How would you find water, if not a store? If there were no cars, how would you get around (why does no one think of using horses???) How would you feed yourself and your family? How would you treat injuries and illnesses without modern medicine? Would you hide or would you seek out civilization again?

Artesian or gravity fed wells, the body's physical need for salt, how to properly fish, how to not rely on plastic this and Walmart raiding that, are all things that none of the newer stuff ever touches on. Animal husbandry is seldom even touched on, probably because the writers have nothing to draw upon. .

I know Alas Babylon is dated, although it is still timeless. Think of it as set in the 1960s. We didn't have computers, cell phones, microwaves, Big Box stores, Tylenol, or disposable every freaking thing. We in North America did worry about nuclear war. The Cuban Missille Crisis brought the Cold War very, very close to becoming a devastating reality, and it coloured some of us forever. We were that close to a 1000 year night.

Alas Babylon is responsible for the only part in the Bible I know. Remembered since I read it in the 1970s. It's a strangely hopeful book.
Will Patton does a wonderful job, he's one of my favourite Audible narrators. Of course he can't do a woman's voice very well, but I appreciate that he softens his voice when he's being a female character. I always enjoy books he narrates.

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Riveting

I often consider how many of us view war as remote. But I have been married to someone who has survived being a prisoner of war and tortured. The proximity to someone who constantly relives his capture and the witness of mass murders brings that kind of experience much closer. Makes it almost personal.

This was extremely helpful to listen as each issue of survival came to surface.
Well done.

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