nfernaays
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If you haven't read them, you have to read John Ross' Unintended Consequences and Matthew Braken's Enemies Series all are outstanding!!
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Books and movies
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YES!
this is my genre!
World war Z - Max Brooks (Great!) (Mel Brooks Son!)
The Road - cormac McCarthy (Outstanding!)
Patient Zero: The Joe Ledger Novels, Book 1 By Jonathan Maberry
Battle Royale (hunger games is a knock off of this)
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
Zone One: A Novel Colson Whitehead
the Dog Stars by Peter Heller
currently reading "Blindness" by José Saramago
this is my genre!
World war Z - Max Brooks (Great!) (Mel Brooks Son!)
The Road - cormac McCarthy (Outstanding!)
Patient Zero: The Joe Ledger Novels, Book 1 By Jonathan Maberry
Battle Royale (hunger games is a knock off of this)
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
Zone One: A Novel Colson Whitehead
the Dog Stars by Peter Heller
currently reading "Blindness" by José Saramago
A great book to try to convince "non preppers" that they should be concerned, is Ted koppels "lights out".
Ted is far from being a fringe guy but is an investigate journalist. He interviews very high level people in the government and private industry and comes to the evidence based conclusion that a major grid down event is a matter of when, not if.
Ted is far from being a fringe guy but is an investigate journalist. He interviews very high level people in the government and private industry and comes to the evidence based conclusion that a major grid down event is a matter of when, not if.
https://www.amazon.com/Wrath-Dies-I...8&qid=1481471732&sr=8-1&keywords=day+of+wrath
My brother just recommended this one to me. It will be my next read.
My brother just recommended this one to me. It will be my next read.
I just read the description.
Yikes, as a dad reading about the beslan school massacre gave me nightmares.
I'm sure this book will too. But it seems extremely timely and pertinent in our country today and I like forstchens other books so now this will be near the top of my list to read next.
Jackalope
.45 acp
Yeah "Day of Wrath" is a frightening book. It certainly instills upon me the need for concealed carry, and the need for training and practice. Forstchen's EMP series starting with" One Second After" is excellent too.
Starts with Going home, Amazon.com: Going Home: A Novel (The Survivalist Series) (9780147516954): A. American: Books
Catskillkid
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+1 on World War Z (the book obviously...the movie was awful in my opinion and not at all like the book) and The Road (great book...ok movie).
I am a fan of all the "Getting Home" type books. I can imagine all that is written. There are many series of these types in the stores. As for the Movies, I have not found a movie about TEOTWAWKI that I have not enjoyed. I think I have watched them all.
I also get Survival Mags in the mail. Love those as well.
I also get Survival Mags in the mail. Love those as well.
meketrefe
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Books: As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me - Josef Martin Bauer
Documentaries: Dirty Wars, The happy People(A year in the Taiga), Requiem or the American Dream, Restrepo.
Documentaries: Dirty Wars, The happy People(A year in the Taiga), Requiem or the American Dream, Restrepo.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Sh...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N01DACF5DH0Z4895E6J0
In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.
The unparalleled adventure and ordeal of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, stranded on the Antarctic ice for 20 months beginning January 20, 1915, then forced to row a 22-foot boat 850 miles across storm-ravaged seas
One of the best true survival books ever written . ... Twenty months in the arctic stranded ... every man survived
for photos of the tale ....
endurance shackleton - Google Search
https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Sh...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N01DACF5DH0Z4895E6J0
In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.
The unparalleled adventure and ordeal of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew, stranded on the Antarctic ice for 20 months beginning January 20, 1915, then forced to row a 22-foot boat 850 miles across storm-ravaged seas
One of the best true survival books ever written . ... Twenty months in the arctic stranded ... every man survived
for photos of the tale ....
endurance shackleton - Google Search
I bought this book a few weeks ago, can't wait to read it. There was a show on Discovery or the National Geographic channel a few years ago about the expedition. It was very good.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
snowflakes need not apply
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
Realizing that there was no chance of rescue, Shackleton decided to sail to South Georgia where he knew there was a whaling station. In one of the most incredible feats in the history of sailing and navigation, Shackleton sailed with five other men on a 1,287 km (800 mi) voyage in the open lifeboat James Caird on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, arriving at South Georgia 16 days later. His second-in-command, Frank Wild, was left in charge of the men on Elephant Island, waiting for Shackleton's return with a rescue ship.[4] In his memoir Wild recalled “We gave them three hearty cheers and watched the boat getting smaller and smaller in the distance. Then seeing some of the party in tears, I immediately set them all to work.”
Elephant Island - Wikipedia
Elephant Island - Wikipedia
That's a genuinely badass story
meketrefe
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Realizing that there was no chance of rescue, Shackleton decided to sail to South Georgia where he knew there was a whaling station. In one of the most incredible feats in the history of sailing and navigation, Shackleton sailed with five other men on a 1,287 km (800 mi) voyage in the open lifeboat James Caird on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, arriving at South Georgia 16 days later. His second-in-command, Frank Wild, was left in charge of the men on Elephant Island, waiting for Shackleton's return with a rescue ship.[4] In his memoir Wild recalled “We gave them three hearty cheers and watched the boat getting smaller and smaller in the distance. Then seeing some of the party in tears, I immediately set them all to work.”
Elephant Island - Wikipedia
Amazing nobody died. only one guy had a heart attack and survived. I think that was his real triumph.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
Blimey
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Gonna watch this again (i did actually read it once). It's on hulu or amazon video I noticed. It's a pretty awful story really and in that I see it as quite realistic. Paints a bleak and very believable portrait of life in america post-catastrophe. No hero stuff in this, just "ah, yep, life sucks".
Not a prepping movie per say, but I just watched the Tom Clancy movie sum of all fears.
Very interesting and even though it's not a new movie it's very relevant. The general plot without giving spoilers away is evil globalists want to dominate the world so they conspire to get Russia and America to fight each other and destroy each other.
I know it's a movie but it's very timely and i already think there are evil globalists trying to destroy America so I was sucked into the plot
Very interesting and even though it's not a new movie it's very relevant. The general plot without giving spoilers away is evil globalists want to dominate the world so they conspire to get Russia and America to fight each other and destroy each other.
I know it's a movie but it's very timely and i already think there are evil globalists trying to destroy America so I was sucked into the plot
4excal
.338 Win Mag
Yup, I watched it. It really is such an amazing story, like for real.
Book 3 in the "one second after" series is now for sale and available.
Ordering it later today, very excited
Ordering it later today, very excited
ProgSpear
.338 Win Mag
Frontline Series (Terms of Enlistment...) - Marko Kloos
It's combat space opera stuff, but fun to read
https://www.amazon.com/Frontlines-5...F8&qid=1483543105&sr=1-1&keywords=marko+kloos
It's combat space opera stuff, but fun to read
https://www.amazon.com/Frontlines-5...F8&qid=1483543105&sr=1-1&keywords=marko+kloos
Blimey
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Nice! Gonna get it. Enjoyed both the first ones and even got my wife to read them.
If we're honest a lot of the post-apoc books even with strong reviews on amazon are patent garbage. Scream of "first novel" and barely readable. The one second after and one year after books were both pretty solid reads. Sufficiently written, decent characters, not too heavy on the ridiculous garbage that was in Patriots. Don't get me wrong, Patriots was awesome because it was so silly, but one second after could be turned into a movie and was light on the silliness (had a bit, but not bad).
Agree. I like patriots but it's more like prepper poem than anything else.
One second after terrified me enough to try and learn more skills, get more gear, store food etc...until then I was totally unprepared. The book scared me enough where I realized how fragile things that we take for granted are. Its one of my favorite books ever. I also even got my wife to read both books.
Off topic but I'm always watching YouTube videos (admittedly for better or worse) trying to learn more, and reading more. In fact just 20mins ago I watched this
No idea if it is an authentic anynomous video or not but it was interesting even though non specific. I am noticing more and more talk and alternative news about emp attacks or grid attacks.
Elwood
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Red State by Kevin Smith. Michael Parks, John Goodman an a brief part of Kevin Pollock, excellent movie. Never got the praise it deserved from the mainstream film industry.
To anyone in erie county, the library now has the final day, they have like 10 copies but most are already taken. I have a copy reserved, now just waiting for it to be returned.