![]() ![]() What I will say in its favour is that it really does punch home some of the real day to day issues that almost certainly would be endured by people facing this sort of scenario. The book is sort of like a report on the consequences of "the event which happens in the story" converted into a novel - but still sounding somewhat like a report. ![]() But be prepared to listen to a lot of it. I'm not saying they are not and that they (Americans) don't owe them. I mean in a "The American military and vets in particular are wonderful and we all owe them so much". I don't mean in a "grab a gun, the zombies are coming (they aren't)" sort of way. There are constant references to soldiers, veterans, the military. And it comes across as slightly smug - from a nation that, whatever they might think, do not have a monopoly on freedom and democracy. ![]() These might be heart warning to Americans - for me, their frequency really irritated. The narrative is peppered with endless patriotic "God Bless America", "America is the best", "we will endure because we are Americans" comments. I selected this audio book because the post-apocalyptic nature of the story appealed to me (saddo that I am.) However it has a number of genuine challenges - which very nearly led to me throwing the towel in the first few hours of listening (frankly this was not helped by a foreword from Newt Gingrich). ![]()
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