I recently made a terrible decision

[MLC]

     I recently started reading Matthew Bracken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" series. This was a terrible idea.  Not because the book is bad(I'm on the first one) but because this book's prescience is seriously starting to freak me out a little.  I started reading it before I listened to the DRR podcast where Michael Bane talked about it, but holy cow was he right.

     All in all, it's a pretty good book thus far, but the more I read, the less it feels like a novel and the more it feels like a prophesy that's coming true.

[Michael Bane]

It's creepy, isn't it? I started reading it again and it depressed me beyond words...

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[MLC]

It is creepy, and at the same time makes me want to be more politically active than my current job allows me to be.  I listened to the podcast(and shame on me for waiting more than a week) where you mentioned rereading it as I was reading it.  It was infuriating and depressing.  But there is hope in that there seem to be regular folks in that book that see the madness for what it is.  I can't help but hope they exist IRL, too.

On a side note, it reminds me of "Unintended Consequences" in some ways.

[twyacht]

Another book is I recommend is:


http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765356864

FTA:

New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP).  A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.
 
Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end.

****

Really provides a mental "hardening" and very realistic and current mindset for those that choose NOT to go to the Superdome, or Gov't provided "Safe Areas"...ie,..(boxcars),....

Not depressing per se, but inspiring (to me) anyway.

Bracken is just eerily accurate.

Good Reading.

[Pathfinder]

Damn, nearly gave me a heart attack!! I thought like M58 you had gone and bought a Glock!!! 

Lights Out is another emp-based story, a very well written page-turner.

I suppose I need to read Enemies, since it seems so prescient.

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[alfsauve]

I also recommend One Second After.  It gives good insight into how people may respond and what steps might need to be taken when Teotwawki happens.

I'll add EFD to my must read list.

[MLC]

Damn, nearly gave me a heart attack!! I thought like M58 you had gone and bought a Glock!!! 

Lights Out is another emp-based story, a very well written page-turner.

I suppose I need to read Enemies, since it seems so prescient.

Actually, I did go buy a Glock, but that's a different terrible decision.

It would appear I've got some more depressing reading to do. 

[fightingquaker13]

Just shoot the Glock. It will make you feel better. Bang every time, and a playing card at 15 yards in 10-15 seconds. Screw 'em.

[MLC]

It is wonderful therapy, isn't it?  Even if I do have DPRC compliant 10 round magazines.   

[Michael Bane]

So when 2 MORE boxes came in the mail today, my Sweetie said, "More magazines?"

Silly rabbit...

mb