What do you think of this book storyline I came up with?

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Sierra

ok so a while ago my friend had a dream with a plot like this.
n a distant future there is some sort of worldwide catastrophy that wipes out most of man kind. in my friends dream it was a zombie apocalypse somehow mixed in with post nuclear war, but it could be anything (if anyone has any ideas for the world wide catastrophy please let me know) all over the world though the people that have survived have gathered into groups or clans. (im still not sure how many people should be in each clan but I think there should be many clans) we are focusing on one clan that is in the pacific northwest around the remains of what used to be either Seattle or Portland. the clan will mostly consist of people 50 and under because the older people couldn't handle nuclear war and weren't strong enough to escape zombies, but there will be some older people. the story starts out with the main characters being two girls who are about 15 years old. one of the girls names is Rose and ones name is Gail. Rose has no biological family left because they where all killed at the beginning of the catastrophy which started (im not sure if it should be 4 or 8) years ago. The closest thing shes had to family since then is her "uncle' mike. he was the person that took her in and also her dads best friend. her dad, 2 siblings and grandparents where all killed from radiation poisoning when she was (11 or 7) and she has lived with her uncle mike ever since. her family was very poor and lived in a trailer park and her grand parents where in a nursing home. she is described as being of average height and weight but muscular. she has blonde/red (more blonde so I guess strawberry blonde) hair that is curly and goes down a 7 inches past her shoulders, her eyes are a blue grey color. her personality has to be strong because shes been through so much but there is also another side to her. a very depressed and suicidal side that she dosent show but is still there. she is also quiet at first but when you get to know her she is very fun to be around and has a good sense or humor her best friend is Gail, and a boyfriend named J. she also has a dog (mastiff) she is very fond of named Bo. Our other character Gail was much more fortionate then Rose. All her family is still living and she comes from a great home, a mom a dad and two older brothers. the family is very rich, so when the war started they where able to afford safety and shelter when the catastrophy happened
while Roses family could not. Gail is tall, about 5'11 she is also very pale and thin. her hair is jet black and her eyes seem to be black to but are just very dark brown, she has a sprinkle or freckles on her nose. The story starts out with the girls and the clan living as they have. a quite but on edge life in the forrest close to the remains of a city. I don't have an exact idea in detail of what I want to happen up until this next part. lots of people die. many people fall ill to some weird deseise that gaurentees death so group of members (the only ones lueft that are not ill or dead0 of the clan decide to go to the mountians instead of living in the city rubble. there more of the clan dies until it is just 5 people left that are not dead or ill. (two of these people being Gail and Rose. the other 3 are boys of around the same age, and they also have Bo the dog. they decide to leave the mountians and go find a safe cabin where one of the boys gramas used to live at the beach. Mike was murdered back when they where living in the city and J fell ill While they where in the mountians. he was not yet dead when they left but close enough to it. when they get the the house they stay for a while something happens in the house. two of the boys where killed right then and there in the house and the others decide to run out of the house. they run for two miles until the remaining boy is killed. next it is just gail and rose they are supposedly the only people left on earth. (earliar in the story it had been confirmed that 90% of all clans where whipped out and all the people of the other clans where ill. later confirming that they are the last people left one earth. they start to cry and sleep through the night up in a tree. they get through the day but at night gail is somehow killed. leaving Rose as the last remaining human on earth. Her depressed and suicidal nature brings here to a cliff on the ocean. she stares of into the sunset and starts to lean over the cliff (trying to commit suicide) but suddenly a hand grabs her from behind and yanks her back. that is where im planning to end the story the rest will be saved for the next book. Please any feedback at all positive or constructive criticism. Also I would like any ideas for
the plot line or characters. I NEED ideas for the catastrophy too. so pretty much any ideas and feedback at all please :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH

AGAIN THANK YOU
also who should be the person that saves rose from jumping?

Answer
I think you should break it up into paragraphs.
In case you don't know what a paragraph is, this might help:
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/paragraphs.shtml

Where can I find a list of the top 50-100 books that every well-educated person should have read?

HollyGolig

I have a little time to do some extra reading this summer, and I'd like to find a list of the top books that every well-educated person should have in her/his library. Where can I find a list like this? Or do you have any suggestions?

Answer
1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
11. ULYSSES by James Joyce
12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
20. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
21. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
22. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
24. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
25. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
26. SHANE by Jack Schaefer
27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
29. THE STAND by Stephen King
30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
31. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
32. THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
33. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
34. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
35. MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
37. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
38. WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
39. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
40. FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
42. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
43. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
44. YARROW by Charles de Lint
45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
46. ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
47. MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
49. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
50. TRADER by Charles de Lint
51. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
53. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
54. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
56. ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
58. GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
59. ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
60. THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
61. THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
62. STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
63. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
67. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
68. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
69. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
70. THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
71. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
74. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
75. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
77. FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
78. ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
79. WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
80. NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
82. GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
83. THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
84. IT by Stephen King
85. V. by Thomas Pynchon
86. DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
89. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
91. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
92. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
94. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
95. MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
96. SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
97. MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
98. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
99. THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
100. THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie

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