The Suicide Collectors

There are some good things about this book and some really irritating things. I’ll start with the good because David Oppegaard is on Goodreads and will undoubtedly read this review. I think it’s well written, it flows well and it kept me interested. I wanted to know what happened next. The character......more

Some time in the not-too-distant future, everyone in a popular night club in Tokyo committed suicide. Not long after, suicide rates around the world started climbing. Tokyo was only the beginning of a world-wide Despair. Depression, hopelessness: it sends people hurtling from the tops of buildings,......more

This was really good for a first novel and quite excellent for a random grab off of a library shelf. I do enjoy post-apocalyptic/dystopian fiction, and this was an interesting entry into the genre dealing with, as the title states, suicides. Strong characters drive the story across the country as we......more

When I read that The Suicide Collectors was the story of a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by “The Despair,” which drove billions of humans to death by their own hands, I thought, “Whiz! BANG!” And that’s exactly what I expected. I expected a world that went out with a bang. And I expected bangs to gr......more

The Suicide Collectors is a good book full of horrible things. I mulled it over, and that's really the only way to describe it. In Oppegaard's dystopian world, the entire planet has been gripped by an epidemic called The Despair. Ninety percent of the Earth's population has committed suicide in the p......more