Any good books

[ohsocountry1]

Hey I was wondering if anyone new of any good survival books I like them to be a story though not like a do this then do this kind of a thing I like ones like into the wild but a little more serious. Thanks for any recommendations!

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[coctailer]

One Second After
Alas Babylon
Patriots

These are the best I have read............and I've read a ton of them.

 

[ohsocountry1]

awesome thank you we should start like a book swap on here! If people trust each other!!!

 

[Trlsmn]

Moved to Preparedness & Survival

 

[aaron]

One Second After
Alas Babylon
Patriots

These are the best I have read............and I've read a ton of them.

Patriots is an amazing book, it is filled with survival knowledge. Look up the authors blog, SurvivalBlog.com... Good stuff

 

[Sasquatchvnv]

Mostly not fiction, but a wide variety of topics to choose from.

"A World Made By Hand" is a good fiction work.

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[ohsocountry1]

I will check those out thank you

 

[unionguy]

Parable of the Sower and also Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler are very good stories of a society in collapse and various survival strategies. It had the added bonus of, after reading them, my wife suddenly liked my firearms a lot more!

 

[ohsocountry1]

haahha I know everytime I have another survival story I read or heard to tell my girlfriend it serves as a reminder to why most of us do what we do.

 

[The Somnambulist]

I read these when I was young, very good for kids:

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
My side of the mountan by Jean Craighead George

I read these later:

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Patriots: surviving the comming collapse by James Wesley, Rawles
Lights out- E-book you can read it online for free

Non-fiction
Emergency: This book will save your life by Neil Strauss
The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler- book about Peak Oil
The Way of the Scout by Tom Brown

 

[drand]

I would add One Second After. Patriots has a lot of information but is not written well and in many ways is unrealistic (too much time elapses before the group goes to meet others, they survive a ridiculous amount of time on the food in the basement) and has a particular political slant that not everyone will agree with. One Second After is very well written, the characters are well developed and I think the situation as described is much more accurate as to what could happen in many different scenarios, not just EMP.

 

[Mac_Fan]

The Road. If you saw the movie, don't let it bias you against giving the book a chance.

 

[ZeroRing]

I remember reading Lucifers Hammer back in the early eighties... might be time to give it another go.

The "Enemies" series are good reads too.

Enemies Foreign and Domestic Web Site

 

[coctailer]

I remember reading Lucifers Hammer back in the early eighties... might be time to give it another go.

The "Enemies" series are good reads too.

Enemies Foreign and Domestic Web Site

I read the first one and liked it a lot. I was told the other 2 sukked, so I never bothered.
Are they any good?

I read Lucifer's Hammer and didn't like it. It was way too boring.
The dude surfing the tidal wave through LA and the Cannibal Army (formed 5 minutes after Hammerfall)were kinda silly.

 

[The Quiet Man]

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I read Lucifer's Hammer and didn't like it. It was way too boring.
The dude surfing the tidal wave through LA and the Cannibal Army (formed 5 minutes after Hammerfall)were kinda silly.

I re-read it every few years. Basing the weirdest people in SoCal makes it more difficult for some of us to relate too, but likely isn't so nuts to those who live or have lived there There were some serious liberties taken with characters to get them established, but tell the people of New Orleans about how silly it seems to them...or would have been if they had not received (some) help within days of the "event". I think the longer-term situations the people had to deal with where quite interesting and potentially realistic. I particularily liked how the Senator established his version of "order and civilization". Kind of gives you some things to ponder... and consider how "valuable" you would be considered in similar circumstances. My wife and I have gone so far as to consider who we would "let in" if something that bad were going on... and have already made the tough decision regarding a couple of our own children!

 

[rufus]

The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence
by Gavin de Becker

Not so much a story, but deals with everyday situations we all encounter and how to listen to your instincts. Also goes into how to identify/handle problem people and situations to avoid.

 

[ohsocountry1]

The Road. If you saw the movie, don't let it bias you against giving the book a chance.

I am currently reading that! I always find out if there's a book before I watch movies so I can read book first movies tend to ruin it!

 

[ZeroRing]

The "Enemies" series are good reads too.

Enemies Foreign and Domestic Web Site

I read the first one and liked it a lot. I was told the other 2 sukked, so I never bothered.
Are they any good?

I actually thought they were pretty good. If you liked the first one then chances are you'd not find the time reading the other two totally wasted.

 

[willseeker]

Mostly not fiction, but a wide variety of topics to choose from.

"A World Made By Hand" is a good fiction work.

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I read it and can't wait for the September release of his new book!
Have you read his first one? The Big Slide?
And by the way, todays' "Kunstler" blog was one his best!

Will