Just finished reading "Earth Abides" for about the fourth time.

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4. In certain ways it is outdated,

but if you keep in mind that it came out in 1949, you'll be able to account for that. Which actually makes the book very interesting all these years later. The technology of the late 1940s was vastly simpler than what we have now, which might actually make surviving such an epidemic (not a plot spoiler that a nasty disease kills almost anyone) much easier than now, when we are far more dependent of sophisticated electronics.

I would certainly recommend it to anyone even remotely interested.