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This first book of the Holding Their Own series, A Story of Survival, is set in the near future, when the world is burdened by the second Great Depression. The United States, already weakened by internal strife, becomes the target of an international terror plot. A series of attacks results in thousands of casualties and disables the country's core infrastructure. The combination of economic hardship and the staggering blow of the terror attacks results in a collapse of the government.
This is a realistic story of how an average, middle class couple survives the cascading events brought on by international politics, high tech military actions and the eventual downfall of society. All of their survival skills are tested during the action packed expedition in a world that resembles the American West of 200 years past.
- Sales Rank: #403360 in Books
- Brand: Brand: PrepperPress.com
- Published on: 2011-11-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .78" w x 5.00" l, .72 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 344 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
I was compelled to stay up all night, mesmerized by the story line. I was absolutely absorbed by the plot. Can the author who writes instruction guides possess the skills necessary to tell a story and hold a reader? The answer is an emphatic, "Yes, he does."
Holding Their Own is a great story for any Prepper that wants to take a break from non-fiction "how to" books in favor of easy, fun entertainment. The book is so good I added it to the List of 70 Great SHTF Fiction Books...shtfblog.com
For our descriptive (versus qualitative) ratings (1 to 7 with 7 being highest)...I will give it a reluctant 7. For readability... I am going to say that it is a 6....reflexionesfinales.blogspot.com
Holding Their Own is a keeper and I highly recommend the book...Apartmentprepper.com
It is definitely as good or better than any of the post-apocalyptic books that I've read. I plan to give copies to a couple of my prepper friends, and as soon as I finished reading it I ordered the sequel, Holding Their Own II: The Independents...tracemypreps.com
From the Author
As I conceived this story, one of my biggest challenges was to create a fictional, economic collapse that would seem realistic to the reader. When I actually began writing, I couldn't help but notice how disconcerting economic news seemed to dominate the headlines with increasing frequency. Things got a little surreal as I would write fiction and then watch similar real-life events unfold on the nightly newscast. The riots in Greece and France, economic protest in London, and budget gridlock in Washington, D.C. all seemed to coincide with the pretend world being created inside my word processor. The Texas wildfires of 2011 added another example. It was a little uncanny at times how I would finish a section and then watch it being played out in real life. Honestly, I wasn't trying to write a script for cable news. As we were finishing the final edits, economic protests led to fires and violence in Oakland.
At one point my editor even suggested we consider accelerating the timeline in the book.
All the while, Holding Your Ground(my first book) was climbing in sales, eventually making the top 100 Best Sellers on Amazon. The emails, letters, and customer reviews all relayed the same basic message: Thank you for writing the book. It helped. People are concerned, some even frightened, and the book made them feel like they can have some control, regardless of future events.
I pray the remainder of my work remains purely fictional.
Enjoy!
From the Inside Flap
Books by Joe Nobody:
Holding Your Ground: Preparing for Defense if it All Falls Apart
The TEOTWAWKI Tuxedo: Formal Survival Attire
Without Rule of Law: Advanced Skills to Help You Survive
Holding Their Own: A Story of Survival
Holding Their Own II: The Independents
Holding Their Own III: Pedestals of Ash
Holding Their Own IV: The Ascent
Holding Their Own V: The Alpha Chronicles
Holding Their Own VI: Bishop's Song
Holding Their Own VII: Phoenix Star
Holding Their Own VIII: The Directives
The Home Schooled Shootist: Training to Fight with a Carbine
Apocalypse Drift
The Little River Otter
The Olympus Device: Book One
The Olympus Device: Book Two
Most helpful customer reviews
185 of 193 people found the following review helpful.
Very good book in the Genre
By Curtis Reed
As a college graduate with a literary degree, I can understand why some people would critique the literary aspect of the book, IE; the dialog, or certain aspects of the plot line etc. But it seems pretty silly to do so. This genre of writing is not Haute couture, folks, it's a folksy genre about survival, for God's sake, can you imagine how lousy a survivalist book would be if written by Emily Bronte! Get over it. It's just the survivalist version of pulp fiction. The value is not in the use of metaphors, similes, imagery and symbolism, or any other clever literary ploys. The value comes from causing us to think about surviving after an "Event" and what we need to do to prepare--and having fun in the meantime.
So from that perspective, realizing that Joe Nobody is NOT Ernest Hemingway, I greatly enjoyed the book. The plot line is not excessively unrealistic. For example, when I read Rawles' "Patriots", I asked myself how many individuals would be able to buy a piece of land, complete with a house, IN CASH, in Idaho, and then stock it with hundreds of thousands of dollars of survival gear? By comparison, this story is far more realistic; a prepared and skilled man and his tough wife struggle to make it to a very humble retreat. The most elaborate piece of equipment they have is the rifle (fairly commonplace) and the night vision scope/monocle (not nearly as commonly owned, as they are expensive). But a man making a living from security just might actually own those.
I'd have to give this an overall thumb-up. Definitely caught my attention and held it. yes, sometimes the dialog is corny, but I have to admit, as a married man--the conversation between my wife and me also gets a bit corny and sometimes ribald. That's just life. There wasn't anything in the dialog that was 'unrealistic'. The only thing is that there is quite a bit of vulgarity, which is also more realistic considering the subject. When the world is falling apart, a few F- bombs here and there won't seem nearly as shocking as they do now.
So if you like the survivalist genre, buy it without fear.
93 of 105 people found the following review helpful.
WOW !!!!!!
By gunnut
This is one of those "can't-put-it-down" books. The plot is fast moving and exciting yet has splashes of very romantic writing laced through out. It mostly takes place in Houston, and is about a devoted couple that decides to "bug out" after a government collapse. They are a team and there's nothing chicken about either one. They work their way through the adventures of trying to reach their ranch in West Texas, without getting robbed, killed or tortured by the looters and other bad guys, yet they need supplies to keep them going, and will do almost anything to get gas and food. The author incorporates many serious ideas and methods for survival and yet the main characters keep their sense of humor and devotion to each other. Again, it is fast moving. I laughed out loud a few times, and teared up once. Is this author entertaining? Yes, yes, yes.
30 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting But Flawed
By MarieWrites
I've been studying a lot about the art of writing so this review may seem a bit overly critical. I do a lot of reading to see what works and what doesn't.
I'll start with what worked for me:
-Pace: This was action packed. I couldn't put it down and finished it one day. The action was non-stop and compelling. There were just enough breaks in it to keep me from getting burned out on it.
-Setting: Everything happening around the characters was believable. The poor economy, the terrorist attacks, society's reaction to these, government reaction to these.
-Funny: A few of the things that Bishop (the main character) says made me laugh out loud. It's rare that a character can be funny enough that I'll actually laugh. (Although, a lot of his attempts at humor made me roll my eyes and were way overboard.)
Character Knowledge: Bishop had a lot of knowledge about weapons and survival. I have zero and it was all easily explained here, not much of it threw me off which is good. Having everything be easily understandable without talking down to a reader is difficult and this novel does it well. There is also a lot of reasons for Bishop to have this knowledge so it doesn't come across as forced to advance the plot.
-Point of View: The main POV was Bishop but there were several others sprinkled throughout. This allowed me to see what was going on that caused Bishop's conflicts. However, this also made some of the conflicts very predictable and there was a lot of flipping around to keep up with who was doing what.
Somethings that didn't work:
-Technical Errors: The book was riddled with punctuation and grammar errors. The lack of proper punctuation (missing comma's, periods, incorrect phrasing) really distracted me, I had to stop a lot to figure out how something was really supposed to be read and being taken out of a story is never good. With the grammar, there was a lot of word usage problems like 'was' instead of 'were' or 'his' instead of 'him'. Again, I had to stop several times to decipher what was actually being said. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen more errors in a book. A couple aren't so bad but this had tons of them.
-Characters: The seemed one dimensional. Bishop's need to play the hero isn't believable. The novel tells us that that's how he is but doesn't show why he's that way. His motivation is needed because without it, it feels forced, like it had to be in there for the sake of advancing the plot. It would've really rounded out Bishop to know why he is this way. Also, the characters reactions to a lot of the events don't feel real. I think showing more motivation and fleshing out all the characters would've made the story much better.
-Dialogue: The dialogue was very stiff and formal. Most people use contractions when they speak but not in this novel. There are hardly any contractions and that makes the dialogue less believable.
Overall, it was a fun, quick read with lots of good information for survival. It achieved it's goal of teaching survival without forcing the information down my throat. However, all of the obvious problems left me feeling unsatisfied.
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