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Post by partndn on Nov 17, 2017 5:40:48 GMT
I read One Second After recently. I know most of you have probably read it.
Have you read the 2 follow up books?
One Year After
The Final Day
I finished them all, and thought it was riveting. A lot of us talk about emp, and think we are aware of how crazy things would be. But this really puts more detailed perspective on a lot of scenarios.
While it is fiction of course, I think I was EXtra drawn in to the story, because I grew up here. My church camp is in Old Fort. Been there and Black Mountain my whole life, and could so clearly envision the things he described in the book.
I highly recommend the second and third books if you stopped after the first one.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Nov 17, 2017 14:17:52 GMT
partndn, Thanks, I didn't even know there were two other books out, I'll get them today. That first one was a very expensive book for us. My wife read it and suggested (demanded) we convert our '88 Bronco to EMP proof. No more computer control of anything, carb, distributor, etc. We could have just bought an old pickup, but it seems like everything from the '70s is now considered an antique, with the accompanying prices.
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Post by TxGal on Nov 17, 2017 14:56:13 GMT
I've read One Second After. It became required reading for my graduating homeschoolers.
My oldest boys have read One Year After but I haven't. Not sure they knew there was a third one. I didn't.
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Post by partndn on Nov 17, 2017 15:07:09 GMT
Yes, get 'em! Very worth the read, continuing the story and what could be revealed about results. I got them at our public library. Funny, I had trouble finding the second one, One Year After. The computer said they had one available. Asked an employee to help me and they had it shelved in the science fiction section, rather than the general fiction section.  Weird. We have a section for North Carolina fiction as well. They usually have a copy in there, along with another copy in the general fiction. That second book just got coded by someone as science fiction. Anyway enjoy! My brain is all shuffling now on all the things we do that are stupid. The mass population centers, distance of farming country to end user, developing more and more high residential blobs of homes, etc. I knew all these things before. They are just forefront in my mind. I'm reminded of Joel Salatin's teachings and reasons behind a lot of his goals. Keeping small farms with multiple critters in production in a most efficient sustaining process ensures the possibility of food. If that truck delivery to your local grocery is delayed even one week!, people go hungry the way we have things set up now. A couple words from Joel Salatin: "No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse." “How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?” I've read most of his books as well  |
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Post by mnn2501 on Nov 28, 2017 15:16:22 GMT
I've read the second one also. To me it was nowhere near as good as the first one.
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Post by themotherhen on Nov 28, 2017 19:21:52 GMT
I haven't read them, our library doesn't have them either. I will have to keep my eye out for them.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Nov 28, 2017 21:03:13 GMT
I've read the second one also. To me it was nowhere near as good as the first one. Funny how that works, I was really looking forward to James W Rawles sequel to Patriots, but his next book left me flat. I wonder if when an author has a big seller the publisher keeps pressure on for a follow-up. There's probably a pre-publish royalty payment that keeps everyone under the gun to hurry. My problem with writing is I write like I talk, direct and to the point with little use of adjectives or superfluous explanation. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 16:35:11 GMT
I've read the second one also. To me it was nowhere near as good as the first one. I had the same experience. The second book left me flat. Don't know that I would spend even shipping for the third one. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 20:53:18 GMT
Kindle edition is $10 for the 3rd book! Ouch. Too rich for my blood. I didn’t enjoy the 2nd book no where enough to spend that $.
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Post by Jolly on Dec 17, 2017 0:22:15 GMT
I've read the second one also. To me it was nowhere near as good as the first one. Funny how that works, I was really looking forward to James W Rawles sequel to Patriots, but his next book left me flat. I wonder if when an author has a big seller the publisher keeps pressure on for a follow-up. There's probably a pre-publish royalty payment that keeps everyone under the gun to hurry. My problem with writing is I write like I talk, direct and to the point with little use of adjectives or superfluous explanation. Most publishers like at least a 3-book series. Many authors, even established ones, pitch the first book and the outlines of the rest of the series. If the first one is a hit, the second two are guaranteed sellers. Sometimes, if the series can be stretched a bit further, the publisher will draw up another contract, since it generates new sales and it always helps sell the back catalog of books. Publishers tend to demand certain dates in their contracts. |
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Weird.
