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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 3, 2016 0:06:56 GMT 10
Started Charlie's Requiem. Short Novella - so far, so good.
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Post by PlanZ on Sept 3, 2016 19:35:21 GMT 10
Can anyone recommend any of Angery American's collaborations? Where to start? Joey? He wrote a book called Ramblin Man (The Perseid Collapse Series) This is based on the post-EMP world created by Steven Konkoly - so you should read his books first (which I've recommended before). Start with the Jakarta Pandemic then read The Perseid Collapse (both by Konkoly). Great books and if you like them you'll find a whole bunch of authors - including Angery American who have written novels based in the same world created by Konkoly. |
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 3, 2016 19:37:34 GMT 10
Charlie's Requiem: A Novella was a quick read, but quite enjoyable. Angery American and Walt Browning developed several strong characters and demonstrated that their collective writing was on par with the Going Home series. Just started the second book, Charlie's Requiem: Domocide.
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Post by clearview on Sept 4, 2016 23:42:38 GMT 10
How many in the series. I thought just 5 but 6 or more?
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 5, 2016 7:25:58 GMT 10
7 in the Going Home series. Charlie's Requiem is the same event told from a different set of people in Orlando (2 books thus far).
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 5, 2016 21:07:53 GMT 10
Have moved on to Hope: A Going Home Novel. This is another collaboration, but with G. Michael Hopf instead of Walt Browning. I'm only s few chapters in, but it has a different feel thus far that I am enjoying less.
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 6, 2016 20:58:22 GMT 10
Have moved on to Hope: A Going Home Novel. This is another collaboration, but with G. Michael Hopf instead of Walt Browning. I'm only s few chapters in, but it has a different feel thus far that I am enjoying less. Just finished Hope:A Going Home Novel and was not impressed. Not only was it depressing as hell, it didn't read as well as Angery American's Going Home novels or his collaborations with Walt Browning. |
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Post by clearview on Sept 6, 2016 23:19:42 GMT 10
I've finished the first 3. Just ordered the other 4. I have enjoyed the read so far.
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Post by graynomad on Sept 7, 2016 8:51:10 GMT 10
I'm nearly done with #7 and it seems pretty clear it's winding down, and yet there's the whole Russia/China thing on the horizon that could easily add another 7 books I reckon.
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 7, 2016 12:56:47 GMT 10
I'm nearly done with #7 and it seems pretty clear it's winding down, and yet there's the whole Russia/China thing on the horizon that could easily add another 7 books I reckon. From the Author's Note at the beginning of #7: "Now, if you're one of those readers that want more of The Survivalist and are among the many that ask how many more books will be in the series, the answer is, I don't know. But after reading Avenging Home I think you'll get an idea of what's about to happen and just how long it could take to explain it all."I'm hoping for another handful along those lines! |
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Post by graynomad on Sept 7, 2016 22:04:04 GMT 10
Yeah, that would be great.
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 8, 2016 11:47:35 GMT 10
Can anyone recommend any of Angery American's collaborations? Where to start? Joey? He wrote a book called Ramblin Man (The Perseid Collapse Series) This is based on the post-EMP world created by Steven Konkoly - so you should read his books first (which I've recommended before). Start with the Jakarta Pandemic then read The Perseid Collapse (both by Konkoly). Great books and if you like them you'll find a whole bunch of authors - including Angery American who have written novels based in the same world created by Konkoly. I've just purchased the Jakarta Pandemic, the 4 Perseid Books and Ramblin Man - guess I've got my reading for the next 3-4 weeks! |
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 8, 2016 22:42:36 GMT 10
From his Facebook site:
Angery American
Before the year is out you'll have more Morgan
5Hide · 3 September at 16:16
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 9, 2016 15:41:17 GMT 10
Loving Jakarta Pandemic - it is set in Maine, where I grew up. Survival preparedness in Maine is very different from QLD. More like Southern Tasmania if they had 3 meters of snow for 4+ months a year.
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 10, 2016 23:08:34 GMT 10
Just finished the Jakarta Pandemic - great book!
The Perseid series is next.
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 11, 2016 16:38:30 GMT 10
Savage Jungle was part fiction, part biography - love this kind of book.
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 12, 2016 6:57:36 GMT 10
The book is marketed as part fiction, part biography.
One of my favourite books is The Long Walk (Slavomir Rawicz) based on the transcript of a debriefing interview following the escape from a Siberian gulag and the trek across the Gobi Desert and over the Himalayas to India. The bones of the story were based on firsthand account, but the interpersonal relationships, conversations, etc. are fictionalised to create/tie the story together. Unfortunately, 25 years after reading The Long Walk the validity of the account was called into question (appears Rawicz stumbled upon the debriefing from another prisoner and made it his own). Still a great read.
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Post by ygidorp on Sept 14, 2016 11:53:21 GMT 10
Amazon offers a free preview...start reading and you'll want to buy the book! It almost reads like a constant running advertisement for various brands synonymous with prepping. Not that I don't like toys, but it would be great if it was written for a layperson not wanting to spend big dollars on brand name products, but looking to obtain maximum effect from everyday items. Then add a few toys. You might argue the $20 multi-tool I carry isn't the same quality as the Leatherman Wave I was eyeing up originally. But it's worked for me in several pinches, without spending 8 times the cost. Does he really need branded products for all the following: 1 Commercial MREs 2 Maxpedition Devildog EDC 3 Springfield XD .45 4 OD green handkerchief 5 Armitron automatic watch 6 Klein linesman’s pliers 7 Six-inch Crescent wrench 8 Channellocks 9 TrueSpec pants 10 Glo-Toob lithium light 11 Energizer headlamp 12 Two-liter Platypus bag 13 ESEE 5 14 Otis tactical cleaning kit 15 Sylva compass 16 Wilderness Outfitters SOS survival kit 17 ESEE4 18 Bellville boots GORE-TEX with Vibram soles 19 Merrells 20 Carhartt 21 Tractor Supply cap 22 Excedrin packs 23 Rolaids 24 Imodium 25 Can of Copenhagen 26 Eagles Nest Outfitters hammock 27 Slap Straps 28 U-Dig-It trowel 29 Steiner Predator binos If the author hasn't yet, he should hyperlink every single product to the Amazon marketplace and angle for product kickbacks? Reading the entire piece reminds me of this meme:  |
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Post by ygidorp on Sept 14, 2016 12:05:12 GMT 10
I'm not a fan of survival fiction written by people who have probably never missed a meal in their life. I prefer books written by those who have been thrown into real life survival sotuations, especially of the type we might expect to face if society collapses. Books about the coastwatchers in the Pacific during WW2 are also very good in my opinion. ^ This pretty much sums it up. Kudos. |
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Post by ziggysdad on Sept 14, 2016 12:29:21 GMT 10
Going home was originally published online via a Prepper forum in the US. It was his a gear/tech heavy forum and he was writing about the stuff he knew about. The members pushed him to publish and it grew organically. His later books aren't so gear focused.
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