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Last Stand: Surviving America's Collapse (2000)

by William H. Weber(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: At a little over 200 pages, this is a quick read. Very little needless dialogue between characters.Pretty much directed at Preppers or those who are looking at becoming a Prepper. It goes into details as to the guns the protagonist (John Mack) has as well as those people on his cul de sac. For a typical American residential street, these people were already armed to the teeth. I did find it quite strange that Mack, a well prepared Prepper, waited four days before realizing that medicine would be needed. As far as the storyline goes, an EMP has knocked out almost everything that relies on computer chips and such. I found that William Forstchen's "One Second After" was a better story for how an event like that affects the population. Last Stand is more about fighting... more for survival against a drug gang, where One Second After is just about survival. There are at least two follow on novels, but I don't think I'm going to bother.
review 2: Gun porn, gear porn, a LOT of product placement. The author even tells you what kind of stoves he's using. The book is short and the pace pulled me along enough to buy the sequel (a guilty pleasure, I'll confess I like gun porn). I'll also admit to having survivalist tendencies since the sixties but the recent use of prepper and prep as both a noun and verb annoys the prep out of me.Forgot to say, all the bad guys are cartoons, all the good guys have square chins, and based on the protagonist's recollections of teenage courtship he's apparently about 120 years old (even though he served in Iraq in this century).If I buy book three of this series, I'll be deeply ashamed of myself. less

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