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How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, And Technologies For Uncertain Times (2009)

by James Wesley Rawles(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0452295831 (ISBN13: 9780452295834)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Plume

review 1: So I picked this up at the library because, um, hello?!? Look at the title!! Why not, I feel like surviving the apocalypse! I was also thinking it might give me some ideas for our neglected earthquake-kit, which is apparently something that Californians have.It is a SUPER intense manual for things that you need to survive. Like, run-for-the-hills-and-bury-extra-gasoline intense. He has a lot of knowledge about hoarding food and prepping for the apocalypse, and there are many detailed descriptions of how to do cool things like build your own water filter. But I have a few gripes, despite the fact that I picked up this book in a tongue-in-cheek kind of mood.Gripe #1: He is ex-military, so obviously that experience lends itself to solving problems in a certain way (barbed ... morewire around your shotgun protected property). I want to have more faith in humanity, but this guy has seen war zones all over the world and I guess we should trust that more than my naiveté. BUT I'm not OK with the section in his book where he describes legal loopholes in gun possession laws that will allow people who can't have a registered weapon to still obtain one. Not cool, dude.Gripe #2: Not everyone is rich. This seems obvious, but his whole deal is how to prepare your second property with livestock and fruit orchards and years worth of extra supplies. Man, I can't even keep up with how much my kids eat NOW, and I'm supposed to have enough money to store THREE YEARS of it?!? Gripe #3: Much of the book is about stuff to buy or obtain before SHTF (he's all about acronyms). There's not a lot in there about skills to learn, which would have been more relevant and inclusive. I did not read the section on do-it-yourself dentistry, so maybe I'm missing something there.It was not a good manual for general disaster preparedness, as I will not be storing bags of whole-wheat and a hand-powered grain mill for when the next earthquake strikes. His focus is truly END-OF-THE-WORLD, with no electricity and people raping each other in the streets. So if that's what you're preparing for, then this is a good one for you!
review 2: This is a really good read. Also, I love that the prep is written from a Christian perspective, but overall the advice in this book is not practical for the average person. I would like to read a book about prepping for non-natural disaster, non-zombie apocalypse, non-nuclear holocaust, but difficult times in a Cul-de-sac suburban Midwest community in the United States senecio. However, books of that nature do not sell very many copies because it is too realistic and less fantastic. less

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