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Suburban Survival: Preparing for Socio-Economic Collapse Paperback – August 29, 2012

by Joe Snuffy (Author), James Wesley, Rawles (Contributor)

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If the 20th Century was the century of growth, the 21st Century will be the century of declines. This will be due to the imminent collapse of the World's current financial system, which is based on nothing but inter-related debt, along with the effects of climate change, and resource depletion, particularly liquid fossil fuels. These will be in addition to many other sub-crises, now taking place. Suburban Survival: Preparing for Socio-Economic Collapse will show you how to not only survive but thrive during a period which is not simply another economic cycle, but very likely the peaking and decline of our current industrialized civilization. The author addresses many popularly held misconceptions within the survivalist lifestyle, as they pertain to long-term food storage, and the "bugging out" concept, while placing emphasis on real-world contemporary issues such as debt elimination, physical fitness, mental preparation, etc.

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Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 29, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 147834203X
ISBN-13: 978-1478342038
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful

dont waste your money

By James A. Holliman on September 19, 2012

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In spite of the fact that the prologue is by Capt Rawles, this book was a waste of my time. I have read all of Capt Rawles books and this author is not even close to giving the advice needed in an economic collapse. Time would be better spent reading Rawles latest book or even rereading one of his other books.

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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful

Waste of time, superficial at best

By BA on September 11, 2012

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On the plus side the book is an easy read, the author's writing style is pleasant and he seems interested in helping people learn how to survive. However, the content does not provide enough detail to be of any use.
Each chapter title is a good subject to learn about, however you wont learn about it from this book, at least not to any useful degree. There are many prepper/survival sites out there that will provide the detail necessary, sometimes with video or images; spend your time there.

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful

Wished I hadn't bought it

By David C Miller on January 25, 2013

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Very disapointed, very HO-HUM, seemed too drone on & on and not say much, very hard not to fall asleep

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Very disappointing...

By TimGamble on February 23, 2013

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Living in the suburbs myself, I had high hopes for a book entitled "Suburban Survival." Unfortunately, the book is very disappointing on many levels. It is an extremely lightweight contribution to survival literature at best. Most of the general advice it gives can be found for free in Red Cross or FEMA pamplets, and on a few survival and preparedness blogs on the Internet. Having read the book cover to cover, I can honestly say I learned nothing new.

The advice given is often very general in its applications. Virtually nothing in the book is specific to suburban survival. However, its general advice could be useful to a complete beginner living in the suburbs, I suppose.

On the plus side, I agree completely with the author's emphasis on improving ones health and physical fitness as part of preparing for whatever lies ahead (an often overlooked area of preparedness, in my opinon).

On the negative side, the information is mostly very general in nature, sometimes outdated, and can be easily and quickly found elsewhere for free, as I've already mentioned. There is also a lot of the author's personal theories on how and why we have gotten into the mess we're in, delivered in an extremely condescending way by the author (who seems overly impressed with himself and equally unimpressed by other people, including his readers).

This is the first time ever I have given only a one-star rating in a review. I tend to not be an overly critical reviewer, but this book truly was a waste of my money and time.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

An Extremely Important Book

By OneMinutePrepper on January 26, 2014

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As a survival author myself (The One Minute Prepper: Prepping Your Home and Family to Survive: 60 Concise Lessons in the Arts of Survival, Disaster Preparedness, and Food Storage), I read a lot of books on survival and prepping, both for new ideas and to take the pulse of the community. Every once in a while a book comes along that makes me say, "Man, I wish I'd written something like that!" This book is one of them - it's different.

Other reviewers have criticized an earlier edition of "Suburban Survival" for repeating techniques already presented in other sources. Well, of course, folks. Any survival book will have the same characteristic: survivalism is a science, and any science builds on the work of those who have gone before. The best authors, like Mr. Snuffy, test and validate the ideas that are passed down to us, and present only the ones that they have found to be practical, useful and effective.

When I first read the book, I found it a little jarring, because it skipped from things like small-unit infantry tactics to political commentary on the current state of society. It took me a while to realize where I'd seen such a mixture before, in Che Guevara's "Guerilla Warfare," which similarly moves back and forth, from descriptions of improvised grenade launchers to the role of the guerilla as the vanguard of popular will.

It is the mark of a great book that it can take such risks with structure, to present a known body of knowledge in a new way, illuminated by a particular world view. Mr. Snuffy is an American patriot, a former Army officer, but he is also a progressive.Read more ›

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Read something else

By henderson on February 22, 2013

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This book has no information. Will not help you. Please buy one of the James Rawles books so you can actually prep for something. Unless you feel like hearing about a trip to Libya.

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Disappointed

By Jacob Duane on October 11, 2012

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When I saw that JWR had written the forward I was excited. That excitement quickly disappeared when the book arrived. It was a copy and paste of many other books; but in this case lacking editorial supervision.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

You probably won't survive this book

By Amazon Customer on January 13, 2013

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Like others, I was picked this book up because of the mention by Rawles. I didn't realize I was going to be reading many multi-page passages which were lifted directly from Survivalblog. This book (what the writer doesn't copy/paste from Rawles) reads like an extended blog post, with not much organization, not much original information, but plenty of editorializing. The author is VERY proud that he took a trip to Libya in 2011 to "experience a war in the tradition of Earnest (sic) Hemingway". This author is no Hemingway, he is no Rawles. When he reveals that his previous publisher terminated his contract for this book and he was forced to self publish, I fully understand their decision after finishing it. This books is worthless.

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Five Stars

Good info

Published 1 month ago by brian staley

I enjoyed the author's writing style and appreciated his outlook on...

I enjoyed the author's writing style and appreciated his outlook on life. I found it to be a concise compilation of a lot of good prepping ideas and a sound plan. Read more

Published 3 months ago by TYLER

When the s*** hits the fan we will be ready.

Everyone needs to read this book. It's going to happen. All experts agree about that. It's the when that's uncertain.

Published 15 months ago by NEIL ALLISON RAMSEY JR

I guess I knew a lot of this stuff already, so it was not as informative as I thought it would be. This will be good for someone new to survivalism, or "prepping" as they... Read more

Published 16 months ago by Sam Keller

awesome book

this book can help the regular normal person to prepare. be it an economic collapse or just the normal area preps need for disasters. a must have for all bookshelves, everywhere. Read more

Published 16 months ago by nancy

A Keeper

Not what you might expect. This actually has a lot of good or reminder information for just normal everyday things along with some WTSHTF stuff. Read more

Published 16 months ago by Jack O. Meredith

must read

I have read many books in this genre and this book is one of the best if not the best. Wealth of current info not 1985 as in some books. Read more

Published 16 months ago by james adair

Author needs an attitude adjustment

I'm surprized that James Wesley Rawles would be associated with someone like this author. Joe Snuffy need an attitude adjustment. Read more

Published 19 months ago by cep89

Extremly poor text presentation!

The editing in my copy of the book is horrible. The book is full justified and there are large gaps between words making it nearly impossible to read.

Published 20 months ago by Donald Munson

enjoyed reading

I thought this was a good read for my money. It covers many different areas of survival that were useful to me.

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