Seriously? It’s absolute garbage. I read it in a few hours on a plane trip across the states and I accidentally left it on the plane. I was a bit angry for about 2 seconds, but then I came to my senses at what a bad book it was and suddenly didn’t care anymore.
There was basically no good information in that book.
Buy some Boy Scout merit badge pamphlets instead.
Not sure if this would be to anyones liking or not.
[b]Prey by Michael Crichton[/b]
I haven’t gotten into it yet but have heard good things. Once I finish Patriots and then re-read One Second After I will start Prey.
The back of the book says:
“In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles - micro robots - has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.
It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.
Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.”
Basically sounds like the [b]Gray Goo[/b] theory. Anyone read this yet? Opinions?
Prey sucked and it’s not an SHTF type of book.
World War Z
Excellent read, you’d probably think it actually happened after reading it. Very well written. It takes about 60 or so separate accounts of people from all over the world, different walks of life, religions, jobs, and lets them tell how they dealt with " The great panic". I think it’s 10.99 on amazon right now, softback.
I plan on ordering WWZ soon. I enjoy a good Z flick so hopefully since we don’t have any of those coming out soon it will suffice.
What sucked about Prey? Was it the story you didn’t like or how it was written? I haven’t read it yet so I don’t know much about it. I found a copy awhile back on a discount rack for a buck or two so I picked it up.
I read Patriots and loved it. Subscribing for some others.
im over 100 pages into lucifers hammer, and cant believe how BORING it is. almost NOTHING has happened to progress the story line. just page after page about a high society party, some hippie mailman, a PM at a nuke plant screwing his secretary, and barely 4 pages about the actual comet and what may happen. i get the author is trying to establish characters, but christ…its supposed to be about a comet hitting the earth, not some hippie mailman delivering junk mail.
Give it time. The book does spend, in my opinion, an inordinate amount of time on character development, but it does get better.
One Second After is by far the best one Ive read.
World War Z was also a good book, just for the way it was written if any reason at all.
Patriots made me wanna smash my head against a wall at the stupidity. Now, I’m Lutheran, and follow my beliefs strongly, but DAMN, this guy is a Bible Thumping, Dodge fanboy, HK and Colt nut who is a little on the militant survivalist.
I’m gonna check out some of the other books recommended in this thread. Gonna need some reading material… have 3 trips to Europe to make this year… tis a long flight.
It is called Character development
I’m about half way through this and it’s got some good info but it’s definitely geared for folks already living in a defensible retreat.
Got it. It’s a very good read on preparedness.
Day By Day Armageddon - Good read and an interesting style of writing. I’ll definitely be ordering the 2nd book in the near future.
One Second After - I really enjoyed reading it and it was well written although I blew through it in less than 2 days.
I started reading Lights Out this weekend and have enjoyed the first 1/3 of the book. Some really interesting insights thus far.
no shit. so i really need to know all about a hippie mailman delivering junk mail to further the story of a comet hitting the earth? or what his beard looks like?
read that instead of patriots
Apparently the authors thought so.
Just got Lights out, about 1/3 of the way thru it. At first it felt a little to much like that God awful excuse of a book “Patriots” what with the “Ranch”. But now, its a damn good book. Really enjoying it. Alot along the lines of One Second After, just a different part of the country and how that area was effected and how they dealt with it.
You’re really going to love the rest of it. Gunny is my hero.
I think that last sentence is a great analysis of it over all. Im sure by now you are seeing some of the “swipes” at Patriots that are taking place.