Book review” Apocalypse Law + Apocalypse Law 2

Apocalypse Law and Apocalypse Law 2 by John Grit are really good books I would recommend and loan to any one. They are a story about a father and son trying to survive on their farm after a societal collapse. They have to kill alot of people to do that. There was a time or too that is did not look like the father would make escape from the large group of men with guns chasing him. Almost unrealistic. They have a survivalist neighbor that gave them the keys to his bunker but they were able to live with the food on their farm. I like how the father who was a U.S. Army Ranger walks through the woods very slow. I read a book a couple of years ago I think it was called Charlie Rangers, they describe walking through the jungles of Viet Nam the same way.
The reason I have been doing all this reading is because I am in Afghanistan. Lots of time on my hands. I have about post apocalypsed myself out, but there are more out there. I am going to order the Prepper series of books next.

Book Review: The Eleventh Plague

The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch is a great book of what happens after a super flu and war between the U.S. and China. It is about people trying to survive. It is the story of a father and son salvaging items and selling at gatherings. The father falls into a coma and they are taken in by a community were things seem normal. It is a realistic view of what I think the world would be after a societal collaspe. Slavers and all. It is along the lines of Knustler’s books just less people. This book and Weyn’s Empty have teenagers as their heros. Seems there are a lot of those being written.

Book review: Survivors

The book Survivors by James Wesley, Rawles is the second book after Patriots dealing with the world collapse of the financial markets. I think the story of the soldier who gets stuck in Afghanistan and how he got home is very interesting and realistic for the time it took him to get there. (It has crossed my mind a time or two how I would get home if I had to walk out of Afghanistan) I also like the way the oil man set his company up for after the collapse. The seed lady and her store was a smart move also. I am interested to see how the next book shows the new martial law setting, goods confiscating, anti-gun governemnt as they take over and have battles with anti-government forces. I know which side I would be on.

Book review: Empty

The book Empty by Suzanne Weyn is about what happens as gas runs short due to Peak Oil. Very interesting. I liked how she showed the gas prices going up. If a gas station gets gas how people flock to it. How black market gas would be sold. The end is very unrealistic. The kids find a house with a perpetual motion power producing machine in it. There is no such thing. It took away from the believability of the story she had set up previously. Some people believe there is some miraculous power source out there that is going to save us from the power down sernario of Peak Oil. There is not. Her story would have been more on target if she would have followed Knustler’s World Made By Hand and The Witch of Hebron. But everyone has their own ideas of how a story should go.

Book review: The World as We Knew it, et al

The World as We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer was a good book. It is the first of three. I read them all together. The other two are The Dead and the Gone and This World We Live In. A meteor hits the moon pushing it closer to earth. It causes tidal waves swamping low lying and costal cities. It also causes valcanos to erupt pushing ash into the atmosphere causing global cooling. Then a flu pandemic sweeps the earth killing millions. In the first book I actually felt panic and afraid for the family as they tried to buy the last groceries from the store. The older people dying off seemed realistic. The second book takes place in New York city, I was wondering why the whole island did not flood from the tidal waves. I guess part of it is higher. In the last book both sets of characters from the first two book come together. At the end they all go off looking for a utopia safe city set up by the powers that be. Not very realistic. Good books for the most part. Definetliy worth buying and reading.

Book Review: The Hunger Games

I have been reading a little lately and one book I found hard to put down was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It is about a dystopian future. The United States has been destroyed and rebuilt as a country called Panem. There are 12 districts and the cities are fenced and controlled. The cool part was the people would slip under the fence and hunt and gather food to supplement them meager diets. There was a black market economy that the hunter and gathers were able to sell their goods for other goods and services. Also there were few doctors and they were unaffordable for most so they went to apothecaries for treatment of sickness and injuries. The apothecaries used natural remedies for treatments.

The Hunger Games themselves were put on as punishment by the capitol district against the outlying district because of a past revolt. The districts have a lottery each year and send a boy and girl age 12 to 18 to the Games. The Games themselves are a fight to the death.

Great book could hardly put it down, I hope the next two are just as good. They are making a movie out of this book which is awesome.

Book review The Witch of Hebron

The Witch of Hebron This is the second book from the world of James Howard Knustler’s World Made by Hand series. It’s a good book. The point of view is changed in each chapter and that is consistent and I found myself looking forward to certain chapters and just trying to get through the one I was reading. Did I learn any thing from reading it? How to do an emergency appendectomy with no anesthetics (Opium suppository) .  Ha! Very detailed description of the operation though. How to kill a horse (A ball of opium wrapped in oatmeal). I guess opium is the drug of the non powered future. It got kind of weird in a science fiction way with the one woman who had visions (Not the witch even though weird stuff happened around her too those could be blamed on hallucinogenics).

Good book I give it a thumbs up.