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About five paragraphs into what I discovered was yet another post-apocalyptic Pros AU, I felt the overpowering need to go off in search of a book I read when I was seven [which really says a lot about my attention span.] Seeing as I can neither remember the title or the author's name, I doubt I'll ever see it again.
What did I find instead? So you'd like to. . .survive a nuclear war and thrive in the ruins. Which turned out to be a humourous and thorough list of book recommendations of the survival variety. How to escape to your bunker, what do when you get there, what to do when you leave it. . . .
Although, I'm not entirely certain why--if you were in the process of surviving a nuclear war--you'd take a slew of post-apocalyptic fiction with you to read in your bunker. The Playboy, see, that I get. Like he says, it could get lonely.
Also extremely amusing: So you'd like to. . .become a self-sufficient fugitive. "Learn all you need to know about being a man on the run."
I'm not entirely certain of the validity of a few of his sources but, for a guy who's clearly all about leading a subversive lifestyle [or possibly because of it], he's got a wicked sense of humour.
On a related note: the people who comment in all caps that some of these books should be read before the government [which ever govenrment these statements refer to], who clearly does not want you to survive an ordeal of this sort, banishes them into nonexistence? Oh man, I love those guys. Given there's always the risk of censorship on a large number of social or political issues on the grounds that the books might be dangerous or inflamatory but you'd think that someone as paranoid as all that would try to draw a little less attention to themselves. Say making the comment in quietly phrased, properly punctuated wording instead of variations on the theme of: "TEH MAN IS OUT TO SUPRESS UR RIHGTS AS HMUANS!!!111ONE!!!111111 SO BY THIS BOOK AND FURTHUR SPPORT CPITALSM!!!ONE!!!!11111"
Ok, so maybe not the bit about capitalism.
I still haven't found that book yet. Onward and upward, I suppose.
What did I find instead? So you'd like to. . .survive a nuclear war and thrive in the ruins. Which turned out to be a humourous and thorough list of book recommendations of the survival variety. How to escape to your bunker, what do when you get there, what to do when you leave it. . . .
Although, I'm not entirely certain why--if you were in the process of surviving a nuclear war--you'd take a slew of post-apocalyptic fiction with you to read in your bunker. The Playboy, see, that I get. Like he says, it could get lonely.
Also extremely amusing: So you'd like to. . .become a self-sufficient fugitive. "Learn all you need to know about being a man on the run."
I'm not entirely certain of the validity of a few of his sources but, for a guy who's clearly all about leading a subversive lifestyle [or possibly because of it], he's got a wicked sense of humour.
On a related note: the people who comment in all caps that some of these books should be read before the government [which ever govenrment these statements refer to], who clearly does not want you to survive an ordeal of this sort, banishes them into nonexistence? Oh man, I love those guys. Given there's always the risk of censorship on a large number of social or political issues on the grounds that the books might be dangerous or inflamatory but you'd think that someone as paranoid as all that would try to draw a little less attention to themselves. Say making the comment in quietly phrased, properly punctuated wording instead of variations on the theme of: "TEH MAN IS OUT TO SUPRESS UR RIHGTS AS HMUANS!!!111ONE!!!111111 SO BY THIS BOOK AND FURTHUR SPPORT CPITALSM!!!ONE!!!!11111"
Ok, so maybe not the bit about capitalism.
I still haven't found that book yet. Onward and upward, I suppose.