# Brian Caldwell's "We All Fall Down"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-caldwells-we-all-fall-down/185081>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [June 29, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-caldwells-we-all-fall-down/185081 "2003-06-29T02:21:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![HoviBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HoviBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoviBaby)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-caldwells-we-all-fall-down/185081/1 "2003-06-29T02:21:50Z")

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Hey kids. I just finished reading “We All Fall Down” by Brian Caldwell, and I have never been more afffected emotionally by a book. I read all the time, and had forgotten how disturbing the written word could be. If anyone out there has read it, they should know what Im talking about, and I’d love to hear if anyone else was effected as much by it as I was.

Now, if you guys have any other suggestions for books along the lines of “We All Fall Down”, I am dying to try them. The subject matter doesn’t neccessarily have to be the same, but if it could come close to the aforementioned title in it’s ability to horrify, I’ll run out and get them tommorrow.

Thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-caldwells-we-all-fall-down/185081/2 "2021-06-06T14:29:47Z")

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How did I not respond to this back in the day? The novel is not your Granddad’s Left Behind- the main character knows full well that Jesus has raptured the Christians (his wife & his mother included), that the leader of the Global Community is the Beast, and to take the Citizenship Tag is to be marked for damnation. But he ain’t gonna sell out to anyone- Christ or AntiChrist. And he learns the lesson RUSH tried to teach us - “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-caldwells-we-all-fall-down/185081/3 "2021-06-07T11:57:18Z")

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Impressive: returning from an 8 month absence to reply to an 18 year old zombie OP.