I've read it three times. It's a great read regardless and there is lots of food for thought in how a person might deal with situations/personalities. I highly recommend it as well!

I have read it a few times as well, its a good read both from the standpoint of learning and from the standpoint of just being a well written book!

Thanks to your suggestion, I just bought it on my Kobo. After the first two chapters I am hooked and will likely read it throughout the day, interspersed with my chores. Thanks for the heads-up!

some members of our group brought this book to my attention, then one of my favorites from the group put it on a thumb drive for me to read...amazing & frightening and had much I never thought of! I am now terrified to end up in a hospital or seniors facility where my meals/water/care is not up to me...have to be able to live at my home until I die!

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Amazing book and true to the reality of what could be based on facts and an appreciation of our current reality.

JAB

I liked Lights Out better, but it was a good read.

I liked Lights Out better, but it was a good read.

Lights Out? I'll have to look that one up, Thanks 🙂

I have read One Second After. And Lights Out. And even Patriots. I'm currently working threw book 5 of 299 Days.

I'm saddened that there isn't anything remotely Canadian out there (that I know of). While I sympathize with the American scene, I'm not American. I

If there is Canadian content out there, please share what it is. I mean, if even if its websites or anything. I'm starved for home cooking, in a sense.

let me hunt a book down for you,, big brother found it, it rang true in a number of ways, he did a fair amount of northern train when in the airforse, gave it my momma to read, freaked out and made it my way.. one of the best I have read with a northern/Canadian/prepper sant while still being a amazing read.. the question is what book shelf is it on..

"Blinding White Flash" by J. Richard Wakefield. Good read...

JAB

some members of our group brought this book to my attention, then one of my favorites from the group put it on a thumb drive for me to read...amazing & frightening and had much I never thought of! I am now terrified to end up in a hospital or seniors facility where my meals/water/care is not up to me...have to be able to live at my home until I die!

lgbrroks, I agree it is frightening and I too would not want to be in any sort of healthcare facility or nursing home when the SHTF. However, what struck me while reading it is that I do NOT want to be dependent on the system ever, especially not when it breaks down. I mean the people in that town, completely helpless and likely to starve to death, rationing food and having to choose to give some people bigger rations, which means starving others. Seriously? Go out and shoot a deer or something. The main character has the idea and is still pretty self-sufficient, but the rest are truly helpless. Won't be me, that's for sure.

OK, so I finished reading the book. First, with regards to my last comment, as I read it revealed that people had been hunting and everything got hunted out within a year or less. Shit. I balled my eyes out near the end, but won't say more than that in case people reading this haven't read the book. I have been thinking about it since I finished the book and I now really get the BOL in an isolated location. If you are in the country, but anywhere near civilization, then it's going to be very tough. Even if you were miraculously left alone in terms of your own stores, if you rely on hunting and fishing at all, that source of food would run out fairly quickly. I see the ideal set up in a situation like this or any scenario that would cause the fall of society being in an isolated location in a self-sufficient manner, with your own seeds, gardens, chickens, perhaps goats/sheep, wood heat, solar/wind, fresh source of running water, plenty of game to hunt and fish to catch. If you are well off the beaten track, there is less of a chance people will find you and loot your home and there is less of a chance others will be hunting the same game you are hunting. In other words, the more wild a location, the better. This has certainly got me thinking...

This book definitely got me thinking about my own Preps and how vulnerable I would still be to the effects of an EMP and its fall out.

I realize its a work of fiction but given this man's military knowledge and contacts I imagine there is a fair amount of truth woven through the story line.
Its a gut wrenching read, plain and simple and should make us all rethink our preps.