User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 11/17/2013 5:00:54 PM EDT
[#1]
Not my first read, but it was a good one - One Second After.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/17/2013 8:05:10 PM EDT
[#2]
Lucifer's Hammer back in 1982
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 2:30:33 PM EDT
[#3]
Lights Out
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 2:34:00 PM EDT
[#4]
Patriots
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 3:16:41 PM EDT
[#5]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 3:34:42 PM EDT
[#6]
"Pulling Through" by Dean Ing
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 4:37:26 PM EDT
[#7]
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 4:38:00 PM EDT
[#8]
I think it was "Time of the Great Freeze" by Robert Silverberg.
Although it could have been "The White Mountains" by John Christopher "Alas, Babylon" had to wait until high school. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 4:38:26 PM EDT
[#9]
The Bible.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 4:41:42 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Alas Babylon by Pat Frank. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 5:08:36 PM EDT
[#11]
Lights out
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/19/2013 5:59:16 PM EDT
[#12]
The Stand by Stephen King
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/20/2013 9:20:31 AM EDT
[#13]
They're awful, but... the Deathlands novels by James Axler. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/20/2013 9:47:23 AM EDT
[#14]
The Stand.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/20/2013 8:06:57 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Lucifer's Hammer back in 1982 Mine too, but more 1988ish, followed by a guy with a wolf walking on railroad tracks, can't remeber the name of it... |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/21/2013 8:57:29 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The Stand. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/21/2013 2:19:52 PM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank. This. Had to read it for school. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/21/2013 2:47:59 PM EDT
[#18]
"Triumph" by Phillip Wylie. (Same guy that co-wrote "When the Worlds Collide" and one of the inspirations for the original "Superman")
It's a story of a group of folks spending a nuclear war in a sophisticated bunker. I think I read it for the first time in 6th grade.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/21/2013 2:57:30 PM EDT
[#19]
The SAS Survival Handbook by Wiseman printed around 1985.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/21/2013 3:00:52 PM EDT
[#20]
Not a book, but Red Dawn.
The Postman I think. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/21/2013 10:11:56 PM EDT
[#21]
I have no idea of the title. It was my dads book that I got ahold of in the early 80s.
--Vietnam vet in the south hooks up with a black chick and drives around in his pickup truck after a nuclear attack. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/24/2013 10:28:37 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank. Read it in 1978ish, my sister gave it to me, she had to read it in college. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/25/2013 12:43:17 AM EDT
[#23]
War of the Worlds.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/25/2013 3:11:02 AM EDT
[#24]
The girl who owned a city. I was maybe twelve. Still have the same copy decades later. I read all the survivalist ones around the same time from ahern as soon as they were released from about '85 on, god did they get awful. Still have the complete set of those as well, and i still read one or two of the first 15 or so every year. After around 15/16 and the midway book, i throw in the towel on re-reading them. John rourke for the win though in the first 10.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/25/2013 3:18:53 AM EDT
[#25]
What to do when the russians come
|
|
|
|
Posted: 11/25/2013 3:20:53 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
The Stand. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/28/2013 2:14:32 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Not a book, but Red Dawn. The Postman I think. The Postman for me as well. A teacher overheard me talking about the movie, and told me that the book was way better. That would have been like 4th or 5th grade.... Same teacher recommended Starship Troopers to me as well. |
|
|
|
Posted: 11/29/2013 8:59:15 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The Postman for me as well. A teacher overheard me talking about the movie, and told me that the book was way better. That would have been like 4th or 5th grade.... Same teacher recommended Starship Troopers to me as well. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Not a book, but Red Dawn. The Postman I think. The Postman for me as well. A teacher overheard me talking about the movie, and told me that the book was way better. That would have been like 4th or 5th grade.... Same teacher recommended Starship Troopers to me as well. Starship Troopers was the only other case where this becomes slightly true. The book and the movie were very different while saying the same thing. Granted, the REST of the movie was so childish that the people that saw it didn't GET the message, but it was there. Take any other random pile of books made into movies, and yes, the book is way better. Though, I think people that think that all the time, are too myopic to understand the movie as a medium of art, or just listen to some adult tell them "books are better" and never really examine it further. EDIT: Another example; "Children of Men" the movie was a masterpiece in SHTF / Sci-Fi that stands out from many other movies that tried to do the same with way more money. The book was weird and lame. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/23/2014 12:19:12 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Not my first read, but it was a good one - One Second After. This. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/23/2014 1:05:41 PM EDT
[#30]
Triumph - Phillip Wylie (same guy that wrote "When the Worlds Collide"
Edit: apparently I respond to the same thread, repeatedly.
 |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/24/2014 11:24:02 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank. In school, no less. I wonder if they know they create people who start to think about things when they read that book. TR |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/26/2014 9:58:17 PM EDT
[#32]
Lucifer's Hammer, then A Distant Eden
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/2/2014 11:24:19 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The girl who owned a city. I was maybe twelve. Still have the same copy decades later. I read all the survivalist ones around the same time from ahern as soon as they were released from about '85 on, god did they get awful. Still have the complete set of those as well, and i still read one or two of the first 15 or so every year. After around 15/16 and the midway book, i throw in the towel on re-reading them. John rourke for the win though in the first 10. I would have bet no one else would have said The Girl Who Owned a City, but yeah, that was probably my first SHTF novel. Then I think Alas, Babylon. Somewhere in seventh or eighth grade. |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/2/2014 4:49:17 PM EDT
[#34]
299 Days
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/8/2014 11:16:39 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lucifer's Hammer back in 1982 1987 for me |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/18/2014 12:28:25 PM EDT
[#36]
After The Bomb, read it when I was a kid. Think there was a sequel too, IIRC.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/18/2014 10:00:45 PM EDT
[#37]
The Stand in high school, back then I didn't realize it was a SHTF book.
Patriots was the first that I read and knew it was a shtf type book. |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/18/2014 10:09:26 PM EDT
[#38]
The Amtrak Wars series by Patrick Tilley
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/22/2014 1:52:35 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryThis, followed closely by Lucifer's Hammer, early 80's |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/23/2014 5:09:27 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Patriots This. My wife and I had been reading it aloud at bed time. We finished the book on 9/10/00. 
She called me with quite a bit of concern the next morning. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/24/2014 2:16:02 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
This. My wife and I had been reading it aloud at bed time. We finished the book on 9/10/00.
She called me with quite a bit of concern the next morning. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Patriots This. My wife and I had been reading it aloud at bed time. We finished the book on 9/10/00.
She called me with quite a bit of concern the next morning. Why? did she know about it a year ahead of time?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 3/26/2014 4:35:34 AM EDT
[#42]
Lights out.
Great book, David is a good author and an even better friend. |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/26/2014 4:45:11 AM EDT
[#43]
Z is for Zachariah...
Read it in 6th grade. Good book at the time. |
|
|
|
Posted: 3/26/2014 4:52:57 AM EDT
[#44]
Not the first but the one I remember the title. The survivalist by Jerry Ahern.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/6/2014 6:35:21 AM EDT
[#45]
The ashes series
william w johnstone. https://www.goodreads.com/series/42554-ashes I still have all the original paperbacks . plus all the survivalist series from the same time period. I really need to go through my paperback book boxes in the basement and start reading these again. i have not even looked at the boxes since the 90s |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/6/2014 7:10:35 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The Bible. Ditto. Some posts here are about "How to" type books. For me those would be My Side of the Mountain and the Boy Scout Manual |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/7/2014 5:13:39 PM EDT
[#47]
Star mans Son 2250 AD
Junior high |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/13/2014 3:56:09 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The Bible. Especially the Old,Testememt. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/13/2014 5:30:57 PM EDT
[#49]
Earth Abides
Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. I must have read in the late 70's or early 80's. Still have it. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/13/2014 6:12:51 PM EDT
[#50]
"In The Country Of Lost Things" by Paul Auster is really good about a decaying city from a woman who travels there to find her brother. Not the bang bang style of typical fiction more about simple struggles.
|
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
