Lately Ive read probably about 15 Clive Cussler books and All of the Dan Brown books.

Anyways, I have a 4 hour detention tommorrow and i need to read a real good book to keep from going insane.

I'd appreciate a response within 2 hours or so so i can get get the book.

Anyways, I really like the Dan Brown writing style and Clive Cussler.

I have never really read a zombie book or a SHTF book, Im just a huge fan of zombie movies.

Recommend me an awesome book! :) ...and I mean awesome

Pm for funny story / spoiler on why i got detention

I highly recommend Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

World War Z is also good but it's 'different'. It's more like an after action report.

Read "Boston on Surviving Y2k and Other Lovely Disasters"....

The general best survival manual bar none; it even mentions firearms! .

I think The Stand (uncut) by Stephen King is great.

Quoted: I highly recommend Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne World War Z is also good but it's 'different'. It's more like an after action report.

From what I understand 'Day by Day Armageddon' was neutered when it was taken offline and published FWIW. I read a sample of it and it seems OK.

My local public library actually has 'World War Z', butI'm like 3rd in line to get it. I read a sample of that in the back of the authors(Max Brooks) other book; "The Zombie Survival Guide". That was an OK book, a little dry at times though,

What do ya know? After Googling WWZ it appear they are making it into a movie

www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/


Anyways, So far after looking online at the recommendations summaries, not sure if i like any of em yeat, Keep em coming!

Quoted: Quoted: I highly recommend Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne World War Z is also good but it's 'different'. It's more like an after action report. From what I understand 'Day by Day Armageddon' was neutered when it was taken offline and published FWIW. I read a sample of it and it seems OK. My local public library actually has 'World War Z', butI'm like 3rd in line to get it. I read a sample of that in the back of the authors(Max Brooks) other book; "The Zombie Survival Guide". That was an OK book, a little dry at times though,

I read the online version and the book and I don't he toned anything down. I liked it so much I've read it three times now. Also he has over 200 pages of the next book written so it should be out soon!

Yep, The Zombie Survival Guide is a little dry. It's good and a must read for any Zombie fan but it is a little dry in a couple areas.

A Well Regulated Militia

by John Carpenter

This book kicks serious ass!

Day by Day Armegedonn is in the lead! But i gotta go drop a deuce! So I'll check back soon!

Quoted: I highly recommend Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

+10. VERY good book.

Quoted: I think The Stand (uncut) by Stephen King is great.

The SHTF big time in that story.  I loved it.

Hey,

Quoted: The SHTF big time in that story.  I loved it.

Yep, tubeneck/Cpt. Trips is no fun.

I think it is one of his best books.

Kevin "I need to re-read it."

Quoted: Quoted: I think The Stand (uncut) by Stephen King is great. The SHTF big time in that story.  I loved it.

the ultimate SHTF story. when i think of SHTF thats pretty much it.

Monster Island

Unintended Consequences by John Ross

Enemies, foreign and domestic by Matt Bracken (a member here 'Travis Lee")

Double tap

Enemies, foreign and domestic by Matt Bracken (a member here 'Travis Lee McGee")

There.  Fixed it for ya.

"Lucifer's Hammer," by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Quoted: "Lucifer's Hammer," by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

I am reading it right now. Good so far.

Turner Diaries & Hunter by Andrew MacDonald

Quoted: My local public library actually has 'World War Z', but I'm like 3rd in line to get it.

Huh... my library system has like a dozen copies.  Most are checked out, but there's one available at the branch I'm going to tomorrow, so...

Quoted: Quoted: My local public library actually has 'World War Z', but I'm like 3rd in line to get it. Huh... my library system has like a dozen copies.  Most are checked out, but there's one available at the branch I'm going to tomorrow, so...

You must understand that I live in a "city" of about 40,000 people, whereas you probably live in southern California, which is infinitely more populus.

When my library gets a zombie book, it is noteworthy for me.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (I think I got his name right)

www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?pid=1418400149&ad=FGLBKS

Written by yours truly.  It has SHTF, zombies, and spec-for folks kicking zombie ass.

I will definitely pick that book up for kicks if it is sold in major book stores, the plot sounds very cool.

tag.

All your page 2 Are belong to me!

"The Morningstar Strain:Plague of the Dead" was also a pretty good read.

Quoted: "The Morningstar Strain:Plague of the Dead" was also a pretty good read.

Damn, I was just going to say that.


www.themorningstarsaga.com/

You used to able to read along with the story as he wrote it. Very cool. I see that the first book is published and available, I need to pick up a copy.

The Christ Clone Trilogy (biblical TEOTWAKI)
The Year Zero (biological TETOTAWKI)
Earth, the New Frontier (asteroid impact TEOTWAKI, far better than Lucifer's Hammer)

The first 3 or 4 books of the Area 51 series were pretty good, but the later books in the series were ridiculous.

Quoted: www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?pid=1418400149&ad=FGLBKS Written by yours truly.  It has SHTF, zombies, and spec-for folks kicking zombie ass.

I love the original name.

Quoted: www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?pid=1418400149&ad=FGLBKS Written by yours truly.  It has SHTF, zombies, and spec-for folks kicking zombie ass.

Wow, you book looks like a total zombie fest; it had to have been inspired by arfcom zombies.

One man's quest for an end to aging, opens up a whole new meaning of mortality: The dead no longer stay dead and the living have become their food. As the big cities fall to the living dead, there are few places where the living can find safety. Dropped into the middle of hell on Earth, a special anti-terrorism task force is forced into something they have not been trained for: Fighting their way across a country filled with the hungry dead, where the price of a human life is cheap, and the dead are not the greatest threat. In a world of the living-dead there are no places left untouched; from the wide avenues of New York City, to the alleys and streets of Russia, nowhere is safe.

The Rising by Brian Keene. Best zombie novel i have read.

Alas Babylon
War Day
Rift
Destiny's Road (Niven)
Plague
Famine
Prayers for the Assassin (about Islamic United States in 2040)
Omega Sub (series)
DeathLands (series)
Shudderchild
Down to a Sunless Sea (David Graham, excellent, post nuclear)
Freeflight (Douglas Terman, excellent, post nuclear/russian occupation)
First Strike (long)
Last Ship (long)
Long Voyage Back (Luke Rhineheart, post nuclear)
Earth Abides (George Stewart)
Final Impact
On the Beach
The Road

Just a quick few off the top of my head.  I can't remember most of them but I'll keep trying.

Quoted: All your page 2 Are belong to me!

Swan Song

Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy.  Probably the most detailed war book I've read.

"Red Storm Rising is basic literature at many military academies inside and outside the United States...."

"It is also frequently referred to by military scientists and is widely considered to be one of the most realistic representations of an imagined East-West war"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Rising

I am Legend nuff said

Wow Ive been reading the morningstar saga online for the past hour, i only wish i knew how good the morninstar book was before i bought Day by Day armageddon!

Oh well :)

Quoted: Monster Island

The sequel, Monster Nation, is pretty good, too. He's supposedly got a third one in the works.

Quoted: Wow Ive been reading the morningstar saga online for the past hour, i only wish i knew how good the morninstar book was before i bought Day by Day armageddon! Oh well :)

This is Arfcom...



Get Both!

Quoted: Quoted: Monster Island The sequel, Monster Nation, is pretty good, too. He's supposedly got a third one in the works.

Read all three of them. First one, good. Second one, uhm, ok. Third, ummmm.

Quoted: Read all three of them. First one, good. Second one, uhm, ok. Third, ummmm.

Ah. Didn't know the third one was out yet. I kinda liked the whole magic angle. Not something you see much in modern zombie literature, which is almost entirely virus-oriented.

Brian Keene had sort of a magic thing going on with The Rising and City of the Dead, but it was more along a demonic possession line.

If you can find them, three good zombie anthologies are The Book of All Flesh, The Book of More Flesh, and The Book of Final Flesh. I got mine off Amazon, but I don't know whether or not they're still in print.

tag.

taggin this one too!

Quoted: Quoted: Read all three of them. First one, good. Second one, uhm, ok. Third, ummmm. Ah. Didn't know the third one was out yet. I kinda liked the whole magic angle. Not something you see much in modern zombie literature, which is almost entirely virus-oriented. Brian Keene had sort of a magic thing going on with The Rising and City of the Dead, but it was more along a demonic possession line. If you can find them, three good zombie anthologies are The Book of All Flesh, The Book of More Flesh, and The Book of Final Flesh. I got mine off Amazon, but I don't know whether or not they're still in print.

Ah, then you'll like Monster Planet. Liches abound!

48 - James Herbert
8.4 - Peter Hernon
A Gift Upon the Shore - M.K. Wren
A Hunter's Fire - Floyd R. Dale
Aftermath - Charles Sheffield
Aftermath - LeVar Burton
After the Bomb(series) - Gloria D. Miklowitz
Airship Nine - Thomas H. Block
Alas Babylon - Pat Frank
American Empire - Harry Turtledove
Amerika - Brauna E. Pouns
Arc Light - Eric L. Harry
Armageddon(short stories) - David Drake & Billie Sue Mosiman
Ashes, Ashes - Rene Barjavel
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Black Sun – Edward Abbey
Breakdown - William W. Johnstone
Cold Creek Cash Store - Russell Hill
Dark Advent – Brian Hodge
Dark December - Alfred Coppel
Death on a Warm Wind - Douglas Warner
Death Wind - William C. Heine
Defiance(also published as Vandenberg) - Oliver Lange
Domain - James Herbert
Down to a Sunless Sea - David Graham
Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
Emergence - David R. Palmer
Ende - Anton-Andreas Guha
Famine - Graham Masterton
Firebrats(series) - Barbara & Scott Siegel
First Angel - Ed Mann
Free Flight - Douglas Terman
Heartland - David Hagberg
I, Martha Adams - Pauline Glen Winslow
In Iron Years - Gordon R. Dickson
Into the Forest - Jean Hegland
Invasion - Eric L. Harry
Island in the Sea of Time - S M Stirling
Jenny, My Diary - Yorick Blumenfeld
Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour
Level 7 - Mordecai Roshwald
Lights Out-Halffast
Long Loud Silence - Wilson Tucker
Long Voyage Back - Luke Rhinehart
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Malevil - Robert Merle
Mister Touch - Malcolm Bosse
Nature's End - Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka
No Blade of Grass - John Christopher
Not This August - C.M. Kornbluth
Nuclear War(short stories) - Edited by Gregory Benford & Martin Greenberg
Omega Sub(series) - J.D. Cameron
One Just Man - James Mills
Outbreak – Robin Cook
Out of the Ashes(series) - William Johnstone
Pandemic - Geoffrey Simmons
Path of the Pale Horse - Paul Fleishman
Patriots - James Wesley Rawles
Pulling Through – Dean Ing
Rankin: Enemy of the State - John Osier
Resurrection Day - Brendan DuBois
Sixth Column - Robert A. Heinlein
Some Will Not Die - Algis Budrys
Storm Rider(series) - Robert Baron
Survival 2000(series) - James McPhee
Survival Margin - David Graham
Survivors - John Nahmlos
Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
The City, Not Long After - Pat Murphy
The Day of the Star Cities - John Brunner
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
The End of the World(short stories) - Donald A. Wollheim
The Freeman - Jerry Ahern & Sharon Ahern
The Iron Rain - Donald Malcolm
The Kraken Awakes - John Wyndham
The Last American Man - Elizabeth Gilbert
The Last Ranger - Craig Sargent
The Last Ship - William Brinkley
The Long Winter - John Christopher
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
The New Madrid Run - Michael Reisig
The Omega Plan - K.S. Johnson
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Postman - David Brin
The Rift - Walter J. Williams
The Sheep Look Up - John Brunner
The Stand - Stephen King
The Steel, The Mist, and the Blazing Sun - Christopher Anvil
The Survivalist (series) - Jerry Ahern
The Turner Diaries - Andrew MacDonald
The Wild Shore - Kim Stanley Robinson
This is the Way the World Ends - James Morrow
Those Who Favor Fire - Marta Randall
Time Capsule - Mitch Berman
Tomorrow! - Philip Wylie
Tunnel in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein
Vector - Henry Sutton
War Day - Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka, 2 guys go out to see the USA after WW3
When the City Stopped - Joan Phipson
When the Almond Tree Blossoms - David Aikman
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
Wrath of God - Robert Gleason
Z for Zachariah - Robert C. O'brien


Add to this anything from Stephen Hunter,Robers Mason,quite a few Stephen King books.

War:

The Five Fingers :Gayle Rivers
Marine Sniper     :Charles Henderson
Silent Warrior     :Charles Henderson
The Killing Floor  :Lee Childs
Gates of Fire      :Steven Pressfield

Survial:

Hatchet
Incident At Twenty Mile           : Trevanian
Patriots                                 :James Wesley, Rawles
Enimies Foreigh And Domestic :Matthew Bracken
Andrometer strain                  :Michael Crichton            
Last Light                              :Terri Blackstock

I am reading the first chapter here...  

http://www.tacticalunderground.us/journal1.htm

of Day by Day Armageddon  

pretty dam good....

I'm going to buy now.

thanx fellas.....

I never heard of that one.

Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once, and Young are the best war I have read.