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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:18:19 AM EDT
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As I read the book it didn't come off as liberal to me, but I wasn't looking for a political perspective at the time.
If it was the audiobook with multiple readers, was it complete? I heard there was a version that didn't tell all the stories from the book, and that a new audiobook was coming out to complete the whole book. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:20:31 AM EDT
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Meh, he might be. But if so he has no trouble poking some of liberalism's sacred cows in the book.
BTW the audiobook leaves out some of the cooler parts of the novel. You shold read it too. Oh, and the voice of Todd Waino, the Battle of Yonkers soldier? Mark Hammill. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:22:43 AM EDT
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Really?? It leaves out parts? That's shitty!! What did I miss? Now I'm pissed.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:26:14 AM EDT
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If it was the abridged version, you missed out on a nuclear sub that says hell with orders, we're taking care of ourselves.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:30:59 AM EDT
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No that was in there. He then was attacked by loyalists & kicked its butt. I find it hard to believe that China had such an advance sub that we didn't detect it. But oh well, future fiction
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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:33:01 AM EDT
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Yes, he has stated he was raised as a typical Kalifornia liberal douchebag. I'm not sure what he considers himself now. Pseudo-intellectual globalist?
Here is a talk he did for the US Army War College. Apparently being a history major means you are very smart. http://youtu.be/-nGG5E04cog |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:48:29 AM EDT
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Quoted:Maybe that's why I was able to be turned into a movie. Oh really 
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Posted: 7/24/2013 11:56:40 AM EDT
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He tells the story from the perspective of people all over the world. Many of them are libs, many ore not.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:04:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As I read the book it didn't come off as liberal to me, but I wasn't looking for a political perspective at the time. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:12:53 PM EDT
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Quoted:Maybe that's why I was able to be turned into a movie. Oh really I haven't seen it, but I understand it has nothing to do with the book. But it got publicity for the book so... |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:12:59 PM EDT
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I read the Kindle sample of the book a couple of days ago and I'm still debating on whether to purchase the book. Is the entire book in a documentary fashion like the sample chapter? I haven't seen the movie either.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:14:57 PM EDT
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He tells the story from the perspective of people all over the world. Many of them are libs, many ore not. I realized that, but in the conclusions to the interviews they seemed left leaning ideas. I don't know maybe I'm thinking to much.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:16:19 PM EDT
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I read the Kindle sample of the book a couple of days ago and I'm still debating on whether to purchase the book. Is the entire book in a documentary fashion like the sample chapter? I haven't seen the movie either. I tells the story of WWZ through multiple interviews by people in different areas of the world. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:22:02 PM EDT
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I got the same sense that you did OP.
A little internet research revealed that Max is a product of NYC and CA. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:25:18 PM EDT
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I got the same sense that you did OP. A little internet research revealed that Max is a product of NYC and CA. That makes sense. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:30:45 PM EDT
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I guess the liberal part is simply that wartime economies tend to not be free market driven. When the choices are life and death, people will almost always sacrifice some freedom to choose life first.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:33:45 PM EDT
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I read the Kindle sample of the book a couple of days ago and I'm still debating on whether to purchase the book. Is the entire book in a documentary fashion like the sample chapter? I haven't seen the movie either. The story about the little girl that lived through a Zach attack on their church and is now in a mental hospital raised the hair on the back of my neck. Don't read it outside in the dark under a street lamp like I did. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:36:49 PM EDT
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I don't know if listening to it is different, but I couldn't get past his shitty writing to finish it.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:37:18 PM EDT
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I read it and did not come to that conclusion. I thought it was very well thought out, and most of what they did made sense in that situation.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:37:23 PM EDT
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Good book, but he was raised rich in hollyweird so he's bound to have a bit of comsymp in him.
I thought he was pretty offbase when it came to the military and firearms in this book and in the zombie survival guide. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:38:19 PM EDT
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Not everything is political...
Its a freaking book about zombies. |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:40:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If it was the abridged version, you missed out on a nuclear sub that says hell with orders, we're taking care of ourselves. i "read"the old one when it came out and the new one last week. there was only a few new parts but it was better.
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Posted: 7/24/2013 12:43:04 PM EDT
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Good book, but he was raised rich in hollyweird so he's bound to have a bit of comsymp in him. I thought he was pretty offbase when it came to the military and firearms in this book and in the zombie survival guide. I thought he pretty much nailed it. Everyone fighting the last war. The eventual transition to a new style of fighting based on education by attrition. Shit look at the past 10 years. Brooks did a good job in the book. Didn't strike me as loaded left or right. Less of a masturbation exercise of the LMOE and more of the way that different civilizations handled the zombpocolypse |
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Posted: 7/24/2013 1:24:39 PM EDT
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The story about the little girl that lived through a Zach attack on their church and is now in a mental hospital raised the hair on the back of my neck. Don't read it outside in the dark under a street lamp like I did. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I read the Kindle sample of the book a couple of days ago and I'm still debating on whether to purchase the book. Is the entire book in a documentary fashion like the sample chapter? I haven't seen the movie either. The story about the little girl that lived through a Zach attack on their church and is now in a mental hospital raised the hair on the back of my neck. Don't read it outside in the dark under a street lamp like I did. I almost bought it but I had several other samples and a novel based in Classical Greece won out. I will likely by WWZ sometime in the near future. |
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