A book I once read....

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I once read a book by a guy called PALMER called dream science....

It was about a guy who woke up one day in a room with one door. A corrider all the way around and no exit. But a guy kept visiting him....

The character managed to escape into another reality where mostly he was alone. When he died he was reborn at the same age in a different reality. Sometimes he got killed straight away, other times he never met another soul for years and years...

I loved this book, only because the lonliness was something I associated with and sometimes actually crave. I love films like "28 days later" where the main character wanders the desserted streets... that belonged to very few... or films like "night of the comet" where the city belongs to the survivors... or "quiet earth" which has only three survivors... There was another with Charlton Heston.... "Omega Man" I think....

Does anyone else crave to be alone in that sense? Have the world to themselves, not locking yourself away, but not being bothered by having to worry about other people...?

Yes

yes. also, because i could snoop around other people's homes to try to gain some insight in to what they were all about.

Wouldn't mind if everything in just a 100ft radius was deserted, but noooo, the rental agency has this thing called a bottom line.

I'm fascinated by apocalyptic stories. Garth Nix's novel Shade's Children always has been and probably always will be one of my favorite books of all time, even though I know from a technical standpoint it's really nothing special. It's just the idea of an desolate Earth that seems weirdly cataclysmic and appealing at the same time.

Oh god no. Even excluding the idea that I'd have no food/running water/electricity, I'd hate to be the only person in the world (or my world). I'd be miserable. I need social interaction. not all the time, but I do need it.