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Title: Survivalist manual: 3 stars. Novel: 1 star
Review: Your liking or disliking of this book will depend on whether or not you share Mr. Rawles hard-core survivalist mindset. While the book is ostensibly a novel, it reads more like an outline of a novel, heavy on technical details of survivalism, particularly guns, and on Mr. Rawles' daydreams about how he personally plans to save the world and give all the globalist conspiracies their comeuppance, come Judgment Day.As a novel, the book is almost unreadable. Most sentences are written in the passive voice and use various forms of "to be" as the sole verbs. Characters have no personality, dialogue is stilted, and plot flows along at the speed of cold molasses. But if you're deeply into survivalism, you may find that Mr. Rawles' fantasies resonate with your own, and you may not care that he writes at a grade-school level of proficiency.
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