The Postman if flat

I Decided to read The Postman Because I had heard good things about the book and it's Both author, David Brin. I Could not have been more misled. The book follows the adventures of a wandering loner in a post apocolyptic America, who finds deed by impersonating a US postman, he can find saftey and food within the dwellings of the untrusting Usually survivors. Along the way, he finds his deed has ruse generated an icon That people can follow, to re-build America from the ashes. It does not sound too bad, I even liked the idea. Unfortunatley, Brin's writing style is flat, boring and so mundane, did he fails to bring any sense of drama, romance or even interest to any of his characters and situations. An example includes the postman falling in love with a woman for the romance part of the book, and then When He loose ago, we do not care, Because She was NEVER DEVELOPED AS A character ... This book is full of "bad sci-fi "cliches, predictable plot and Developments. Everything from the Wizard of Oz to the computer characters refering to things like, the "Doomwar" or the "Anti-Tech Riots." I mean what this book written in 1985? The dialogue and writing sound more like 1955! Even small things like search as how ALL the survivors refer to the Doomwar and the Chaos That Followed (Brin's capitals) by the same names, even though we are told thatthey have all been isolated from eachother for 20 years WITH NO COMUNICATION! This tells us did Brin did not give any thought this world! The book is supposedly full of grand ideas, and in reality They all fall flat, and become cliched, Mostly Because Brin treats his readers as idiots When his main character, who is delivering mail and Bringing Hope to the surviviors, stops and thinks to himself , "Gee if there what only a symbol, a person did everyone Could rally behind, I would help them if I could ..." A good author would have us Given this sense of events, (ie - the postman not Realizing what he is doing, as he himself yearns for hope) in a subtle, interesting way. Unfortunatley, Brin just can not deliver his own ideas, and instead we end up laughing, When We Were Meant to Be Inspired. BMAN