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Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse: A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future (Expanded and Updated 33 Chapter Edition) Paperback – November 15, 2006

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Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse is novel set in the near future that describes a full scale socioeconomic collapse. More than just an exciting read, it is packed with useful survival and preparedness tips. It was described by one reviewer

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384 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Xlibris Corporation
Publication date

November 15, 2006
Dimensions

6 x 0.95 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

1425734073
ISBN-13

978-1425734077
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation; Expanded edition (November 15, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 1425734073
ISBN-13 : 978-1425734077
Item Weight : 1.4 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.95 x 9 inches

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Pam Shelton-Anderson

I have a headache

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2019

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Where do I start with this? I managed to finish the book but only barely.
First, the story flow: There was way too much detailed information. I lost track of the acronyms and terms that I did not know and I read a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction. Any time a person had to recount his or her story, it took many, many pages and was in excruciating detail. Frequently, the story launched into a detailed inventory of absolutely everything they had and how to use it. There was no way that the story could possibly have any coherence or flow with that.
Second: Way, way too much religion for me and all of it required to be Christian.
Third, the characters: There was a tendency to alternate between first name, last name and sometimes nickname which made it very confusing. For a while I thought Tom, T.K. and Kennedy were three different people. The characters were extremely one dimensional. The men oozed testosterone and the women were pretty much just there so it wasn't an odd bunch of just guys hunkering down. This line from the book pretty much sums up the women,"I'll be looking for a God-fearing Christian woman that can cook and sew and shoot straight." Yup.
Fourth: You can't get any more right wing than this. Can't someone just once tell a story where the conservatives and the liberals are just complete jerks but just people with different points of view?
Fifth: I recognize that the author knows a ton about survival gear etc so I bumped up a star for that. I just wish the story had been worthy of his considerable knowledge.

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They Live

Fascinating depiction of TEOTWAWKI and picking up the pieces afterwards

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2016

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The book is full of technical information as part of the plot, so you will learn advanced techniques and get direction on what is useful and not.
The plot refers to a complete breakdown in society due to economic collapse and resulting social unrest, A large portion of the population is wiped out. If you have desk job, live a cosmopolitan life, and/or don't have a gun cache, you're dead. Without being too specific and spoiling anything, the novel focuses on preparedness, bugging out, survival, defense, and eventually rebellion against tyranny. It is hard to put this book down.
The characters are not complex, but this is is a plot driven story, not a character driven story.
Some things to note about the novel:
It is heavy on Christian faith as binding the characters together and differentiating them from the unholy bad guys. The religious element in the story is of the "give us strength" variety, not "smite the infidels." I personally don't believe faith is a necessary precondition to survival, but I did not find the author to be too heavy handed in this regard.

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Josephine

Regretted the purchase

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2018

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I purchased a book that purported to be a survival thriller. It turned out instead to be a terribly-written manifesto about guns, more guns, the author's political and religious beliefs... oh, did I mention guns? There is almost zero plot. The characters are like cardboard cutouts - everyone is almost exactly the same, the protagonist is "perfect", there is never any conflict between the main characters, and frankly I couldn't distinguish between any of them except for their genders (and the author made that difference VERY pronounced, with the genders being extremely pigeonholed).

Couldn't even get past chapter 2, it was genuinely more banal and uninteresting than an accounting textbook.

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Diego Furtive

pretty good - overly detailed

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2018

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I found the story to be pretty good and a plausible story of what could happen down the line. My one criticism is that for a novel it is a little overly detailed, like a manual on survival, that I thought interfered with the story.

For example instead of writing. "T.K. heard a rustling noise outside the door. He grabbed his AR15 and creeped towards the door to see if it was an intruder..." he would write something like "T.K. heard a rustling noise outside the door which was now reinforced with double steel beams and 1/4 inch thick sheet metal around the frame as well as a double deadlock system and a one-way peep hole. He grabbed his AR which he recently painted in a green beret 1968 camouflage pattern. The gun had a collapsible stock and retrofitted with a 45 round magazine, and lazer viewfinder. The magazine was fully loaded and he set the safety to semi-automatic and started creeping towards the door in classic marine recon style...

Overall a pretty good book, but I would have saved the detailed technical stuff for his website that he mentions after the end of the story.

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RichD

Not real impressed

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019

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This book is kinda okay but not really for me. Its kinda like a survival manual mixed in with a fictional story...and not that well. They book spends too much space how the characters built a reinforced front door. There's lot of instances where they spend way too much time how to do some prepping task. There's one new character half way through the book who takes 4 pages to tell his boring life story...attempt to give the reader a list of prep'ing ideas. The when asked what he wished he had in his survival bag and he said he wished he had a Bible! What?! I absolutely have no issue with the Bible but this book has HUGE Biblical theme to go so far as stating two unmarried couples cannot jave sex until they are married! So its a fictional book, a sort of survival book, and sort of a religious guide. After the second couple werent allowed to have sex until they were married, I put the book down and didnt finish it. I wanted a good fictional bok. If I had wanted a survival guide, I would have bought that. There's another thats a fictional prepper book thats was awesome! One Second After. I couldn't put it down. Way better book.

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Too much info

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2019

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I gave this book a three because I chose a novel to read what I got was at least half detailed info and facts and specs of all kinds. The storyline was great and the characters interesting but characters needed more development. I know a lot of the books in the genre usually have a lot of tips and information but this is crazy. I had to skip 10 or 12 pages at a time to find the story. Maybe you should write two books. One fiction and one with all that great information that you have. Then you could reference the book of facts in any novels you write and everyone would be happy.

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Ephiny

Interesting and unusual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2018

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This was a very interesting book. I admit to finding it a little difficult to get into at first, as I'd expected a more novel-like style and structure. In fact, it is less like a novel and more like a collection of non-fiction accounts of historical events (although, of course, it is fictional). There were some long sections of technical specifications of guns etc. that I skipped over, but other parts were fascinating, page-turning and (at times) heartbreaking. The ending perhaps felt a little too neat and too much like wish-fulfilment given the author's evident political leanings, but overall it was an intriguing tale of ordinary people doing heroic things in a situation most of us hope we will never have to face.

I certainly feel like I know a lot more about disaster preparedness and self-sufficient living than I did - I was left with an overwhelming urge to start stockpiling tinned foods and medical supplies, and learn to shoot a gun, though the latter will probably have to remain fantasy for those of not fortunate enough to live in the Land of the Free...

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Colin Sorahan

Superb Book - Lousy Person..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2019

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This is an excellent book, in fact this is the second copy I have bought -
I've worn out the first... What more can I say!
Having said that this man is an example of the best and worst of American prepping.
He has a wealth of fascinating and useful information that is of use to newbie preppers, but wraps it in a deeply creepy theological extremism.
He even got to the point of advocating his own little "Jonestown", with the only difference being he places it in central Africa rather than South America (His novel "Land of Promise").
It is clear he is using his genuine skill at prepping as a platform for his obsession with religion.
Chose CAREFULLY which of his books you trust...

A. J. Sudworth

I was surprised about how much I enjoyed this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2015

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I was surprised about how much I enjoyed this book. Its a curious hybrid of novel and instruction manual and the thing I took from this book was that I quite sympathised with a lot of the views put forward. But what also struck me was the expectation that 'stuff would get sorted eventually' - whereas a lot of things that get used to survive would wear out and could not be replaced - then would the downward spiral start ?
So this is a preparedness novel, but if things really did fall apart, then its clear that however capable people are, the quality of life would be a lot different. Our way of life supports a lot of people - the simpler life in this book would not support anywhere as many ..
There is a quite a bit of religion in this book which may jar a bit but the society that evolves does seem to be 'all hands to pumps' and quite egalitarian. Its also quite depressing that the rest of society seems to gravitate to violence and brutality very quickly (including the so called liberators from Europe..)
By the time I'd finished with the book I was just reminded that we do depend on each other to make society work as it is today - in this type of scenario life would again be 'brutish and short' without the things like medicines we take for granted available in the long term
So , not a happy read but a thought provoking one - what would you actually do in this type of situation ?

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Armchair Critical

Long lists of firearm technical specifications, no character development, and dull narrative.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2017

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Set in the United States, James Rawles' "Patriots" starts with a plausible enough (but neither likely nor realistic) account of financial collapse leading to the collapse of society. The first half or so of the novel describes how a group of "survivalists" had prepared themselves for such an eventuality and details how they put their survival plans into action. The second half of the novel introduces a broader perspective and tells the story of how this group contributes to the restoration of America.

Overall "Patriots" fails as a novel. It's just not that interesting. The major weaknesses are the tediously detailed descriptions of guns and their ammunition when this detail is unimportant for the story, the characters whose histories are often recounted but who lack distinguishable personalities, and the lack of a compelling narrative with a well crafted plot arc. In so far as the main characters have personalities they are all pretty much the same, i.e. trigger happy and self righteously christian. All characters within the book fit neatly into binary stereotypes, goodies and badies. The badies are invariably rapists and looters (and bizarrely sometimes communists and cannibals). The first half of the book can mostly be considered "setting the scene" and is entertaining enough but it does start to drag a little to the point I found myself wondering if it was actually leading anywhere. The real "plot" becomes apparent a bit over half way through and its relatively straight forward and uninteresting (I won't leave spoilers here). Without giving too much away the plot in the second half will seem absurd to anyone who doesn't sympathise with a strongly anti-government, anti-socialist, and anti-European, flavour of American patriotism.

Other reviewers have written reviews with which I largely agree. For example (these may contain spoilers):
HowlingWolf630: "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
Ekij: "Strong first half, disappointingly weak second half."
bandcandy: "Lots of guns, very little insight."
Armstrong440: "The wet dream of the religious right."

*SPOILERS BELOW*
Several reviewers comment on the seemingly out of place chapter early in the book that introduces a couple of gun enthusiast brothers who appear to play no further part in the story. In fact, if you pay attention to names, these brothers do resurface later in the story but not in a way that makes any reference to the earlier chapter.

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wayne

Great story but ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2014

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I love the story behind this book, I've read it several times now and bought 2 copies, one paperback and one Kindle.
But what stopped me giving it 5 stars was the heavy Christian bias, it reads like Christians were the good guys and everyone else were the bad guys, it really got annoying, so much so that you can tell when a new person entered the story what was going to happen. I find it annoying and impossible to believe that only Christians were fighting on the side of the good guys and although at times when they were starving and cold they would not eat a can of food or use wood from a log pile they found in a deserted cabin...

I also felt that the people who were portrait as prepared were not nearly as prepared as was made out, i.e lack of waterproof boots and clothing as well as cold weather gear.

Great read but spoiled by the over reliance of one faith to connect the good people within the story.

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