Emergency, Neil Strauss
Emergency, Neil Strauss
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Emergency

Author: Neil Strauss

Narrator: Neil Strauss

Abridged: 6 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/01/2009


Synopsis

Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. ""I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes."" So begins Neil Strauss's harrowing new book: his first full-length work since the international bestseller The Game, and one of the most original-and provocative-narratives of the year. After the last few years of violence and terror, of ethnic and religious hatred, of tsunamis and hurricanes–and now of world financial meltdown–Strauss, like most of his generation, came to the sobering realization that, even in America, anything can happen. But rather than watch helplessly, he decided to do something about it. And so he spent three years traveling through a country that's lost its sense of safety, equipping himself with the tools necessary to save himself and his loved ones from an uncertain future. With the same quick wit and eye for cultural trends that marked The Game, The Dirt, and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Emergency traces Neil's white-knuckled journey through today's heart of darkness, as he sets out to move his life offshore, test his skills in the wild, and remake himself as a gun-toting, plane-flying, government-defying survivor. It's a tale of paranoid fantasies and crippling doubts, of shady lawyers and dangerous cult leaders, of billionaire gun nuts and survivalist superheroes, of weirdos, heroes, and ordinary citizens going off the grid. It's one man's story of a dangerous world–and how to stay alive in it. Before the next disaster strikes, you're going to want to read this book. And you'll want to do everything it suggests. Because tomorrow doesn't come with a guarantee...

About Neil Strauss

Neil Strauss is a ten-time New York Times best-selling author. His books, The Game and Rules Of The Game, for which he went undercover in a secret society of pickup artists for two years, made him an international celebrity and an accidental hero to men around the world. Both books topped The New York Times best-seller list and were #1 on Amazon, and the former has the dubious distinction of being the most stolen book at Barnes & Noble besides The Bible.His other best-selling books include Emergency, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star with Jenna Jameson, The Dirt with Motley Crue, and The Long Hard Road Out of Hell with Marilyn Manson. Strauss has also contributed to Esquire, Maxim, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The Source, New York Newsday, and many other magazines and newspapers. Beyond journalism, Strauss has acted in everything from Curb Your Enthusiasm to rock videos by Beck and 30 Seconds to Mars. He has written liner notes for albums by Nirvana; performed on albums by Marilyn Manson; and DJ’ed at clubs around the world. He also hosted his own interview show, The Inner Circle with Neil Strauss, on SiriusXM. And has written television shows for HBO, FX, and Cartoon Network.


Reviews

Goodreads review by J. on April 24, 2021

I read this book years ago, but the current volatile political climate around the pandemic is making 'Emergency' more relevant today in a whole new way. Neil Strauss is probably best known for writing 'The Game', but this is the book that comes up in conversations rather frequently for me. With the......more

Goodreads review by Alice on April 09, 2009

Nowhere as good as the Game or Dirt, and a very, very slow start (150 pages of musings over why this subject interests him), but when it gets going it really gets going. If you're a fan of secret spy stuff, conspiracy theory, and action movies, you'll love this book, but what I wasn't expecting was......more

Goodreads review by Nick on February 18, 2012

Short version: I liked it. it's not a survival manual, it's a book about the changes in the author's life as he finds ways to tackle his sense of vulnerability and ill-preparedness to deal with a world gone bad. I picked the book up in a charity shop for a couple of dollars, vaguely suspecting that i......more

Goodreads review by Gina on June 14, 2017

A very dry read, but informative. If you're writing a story about survival during the end days, then this is a must-read.......more

Goodreads review by Peter on December 01, 2010

Neil Strauss, probably most famous for his Motley Crue book the Dirt and his book about Pick-Up Artists, the Game, gets a little freaked out about the state of the world. Then he looks into it a little more and gets a lot freaked out, especially when he has to admit to himself that after a life live......more