Going Home

I seem to be on a survivalist reading kick lately, enjoying various books about TEOTWAWKI scenarios. One thing that quickly becomes apparent is that survivalist books and those who write them tend to be of a particular political bent. It is stronger in some than in others, but let's just say there a......more

As a reader of a few post-apocalyptic novels, I'd have to say this is one of the best and worst I've read. I couldn't put it down and couldn't stand reading it all at the same time. I really liked the storyline: people, in varying degrees of post-disaster preparedness, running the gauntlet to get hom......more

Interesting start to a new series but his writing had some drawbacks. An example would be the editing was not up to standard. Several misspelled words and awkward phrasing were present. There was too much detail on mundane tasks. A quote from Elaine, a fellow GR reader, “I got about 30 pages into th......more

First, let me state that there are grammatical errors, sometimes to the point of distraction. However, I loved the book. The story is gripping and, at times, hard to put down. There is a lot of detail about the gear carried and used by the protagonist. From that I learned a few things. I gave the bo......more

I read this book in about a day. It is quite alarming and certainly a wake up call to those of us who think an electrical catastrophic event could never happen. Going Home gives us a time line of events that could take place should our electrical grid system ever fail. I really do believe the social......more