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Title: It is what it is.
Review: JWR has a lot of good survival/firearms information like any good libertarian. However, he really should have read a few how-to books on fiction writing, character creation and dialogue. His whole aim with this book was to sneak helpful how-to info and instill survival mentality through the brain's backdoor by making an informational book into a novel. The problem is he's not a fiction writer, so his characters and dialogue end up being wholly bland and unbelievable. A real person doesn't go on unprovoked expository tangents detailing the compatibility of blood types. JWR should have contracted a real fiction writer for this one. Beyond all that though, there is a lot of great useful reference-type information there if you're able to stomach the format.
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