I'm always a little amused when a "future" world takes place in my past. 
 So I saw the movie first. That's always a bit of a hit or miss with me. The books are almost always exclusively better, but every now and then I decide that a movie was well adapted. When this rare thing happens, it's usually because I didn't like the book. The Postman, however, was both well adapted (if you ignore the stupid ending), and well written. It's not precisely the same story, which actually made reading the book more enjoyable, since it wasn't predictable. 
 I was genuinely concerned when I started reading this book. I found myself glazing over as I read through the pages of world building and description. What had I gotten myself into? 
 Lucky for me, as soon as some action started, it just kept rolling right along. In the final pages I felt goosebumps up and down my arms. The book lacked the movie's hokey ending, so I was completely satisfied. 
 Overall, it was a decent dystopian book with just a touch of sci-fi. And since it's all in the past, I am happy to report that the end of civilization never happened. ;)