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The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Apocalypse (2013)

by Sam Sheridan(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1470830590 (ISBN13: 9781470830595)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Blackstone Audio

review 1: This is like armchair quarterbacking for the post-apocalypse crowd. Author Sam Sheridan comes up with varied (sometime plausible, sometimes not) doomsday scenarios and follows with a chapter of training he took to cover such an instance. Massive earthquake and an object is getting ready to smash the vehicle his son and wife are trapped in? He learns weight lifting for minimum energy and maximum output. Aliens are attacking and you need to get away but have no car? He shares his time with an latino ex-gang member to learn how to break into a car to steal it. Forced away from the city, the grid is down, and need to find food? He partners with a highly trained hunter. Lots of great reading here; some to admire, some to inspire the readers' own preparation. Highly enj... moreoyable read.
review 2: This isn't a book for people who are growing beards, ranting about chemtrails, and think the end is nigh. It's a sensible and enjoyable look at what it would take to survive in a grid-down situation, and Sam Sheridan goes through the training for a bunch of different aspects of survival. It was probably pitched as a TV series at some point, but it works as an enjoyable fast read (I did it on audiobook over the course of two 12-hour drives).The gist of every chapter is that Sheridan introduces a scenario (some of them are tongue-in-cheek, knowingly far-fetched or culled from fantastical post-apocalyptic tropes), and then walks his readers through the training he went through, what he learned, and it all comes together in a tidy narrative. This isn't Pullitzer-type prose, but it's also not total pulp. Specifically, Sheridan's chapter on what stress does to the human body is pop science at its best.I also appreciated that Sheridan took, lightly to task, the bunker-and-ammunition crowd. This isn't a book claiming that there IS any kind of impending apocalypse, but Sheridan weaves an interesting story out of preparing for the realistic disasters (major LA earthquake or some Katrina-esque scenario) & his journey to learn new skills. less

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