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Cargando... SurviRal (edición 2014)por Ken Benton (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was quite disappointed in this book. I found the characters and the situations very disappointing. The main character and his wife are very Pollyanna-ish about the new strain of super-flu wiping out their country, only agreeing to leave their urban home when it becomes very obvious that society has completely broken down. Their biggest concern? That their neighbor (who is portrayed as a huge gun enthusiast) will bring too many guns with them on their retreat. The male character and the neighbor wind up carrying .22 breakdown rifles in their backpacks, unloaded and disassembled with the defense plan of pulling the rifles out of their bags, assembling and loading them. Pretty sure that's not ideal. We find out that the neighbor actually brought some handguns with. He and the wife end up carrying them, but with the same plan...let's put them in our packs as far out of reach as possible. The Neighbor has a huge gun collection, but never bothered to purchase holsters? The characters are poorly developed and not very believable. Halfway through their journey to the hunting cabin they have we suddenly discover that the wife is a huge religious nut, but it hasn't been mentioned at all before then?? Huge disappointment and I wish I had my money back. I received a free copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review. When an mutated outbreak of H5N1 Virus escapes from a laboratory by way of ferrets in the Netherlands, it quickly becomes a world pandemic. Jake Stonebreaker has been a conspiracy theorist for as long as his brother Clint can remember, so when Jake begins warning his brother that things aren't what they seem and that the virus is spreading rapidly and the infrastructure is collapsing, his warning falls on deaf ears. When things turn for the worse, Clint, his wife Jenny, and neighbor Harold, journey to Jake's cabin in Springfield where he has been stockpiling supplies for this very reason. Little did they know that their journey would be treacherous and forever life-changing. Surviral is an amazing doomsday scenario novel. The scariest part is that it's extremely plausible. This story is well written, and I found myself getting lost in the moment. You're immediately pulled into the story as you read about how everyone reacted to the outbreak. My only wish is that other than a brief two sentence mention of the prisons, there wasn't any mention if they were all released because there wasn't any food to feed them, or if those that joined Zane Savage's gang were escapees. All in all, this was an awesome albeit realistic read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The deadliest flu season in a hundred years is about to turn a whole lot deadlier. When an accident at a famous medical research facility lets a mutated avian flu strain out, a nightmare scenario unfolds. Before authorities can react, millions are infected-and that's just the beginning. The mortality rate exceeds 80%. Leaders and elected officials soon learn the man-manipulated virus respects neither rank nor stature. The resulting chain reaction leads to a collapse of modern society-even in Colorado, where no cases of the killer strain have yet appeared. Clint Stonebreaker, a happily-married software engineer living in Denver, doesn't like watching the news. He especially doesn't let Jake, his wacky doomsday-prepping brother, watch it when he visits. But when chaos goes viral through the entire country, Clint and his wife Jenny are forced to acknowledge reality. They find themselves hitting the road with their gun-enthusiast neighbor to escape the deteriorating city. Their goal? Reaching Clint's hunting cabin in Southeastern Colorado and trying to make a homestead of it. They don't get far before running into a gauntlet of obstacles. Colorado seems to have become a giant sociological experiment, with dire consequences for making the wrong decisions. The spirit of American resolve is pitted against the ugly realty of criminal opportunism in every direction they turn. Ironically, Clint isn't sure which is worse: being forced to survive in the midst of civil unrest, or knowing he'll have to admit to Jake that he was right. Assuming he can find him... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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When an mutated outbreak of H5N1 Virus escapes from a laboratory by way of ferrets in the Netherlands, it quickly becomes a world pandemic. Jake Stonebreaker has been a conspiracy theorist for as long as his brother Clint can remember, so when Jake begins warning his brother that things aren't what they seem and that the virus is spreading rapidly and the infrastructure is collapsing, his warning falls on deaf ears. When things turn for the worse, Clint, his wife Jenny, and neighbor Harold, journey to Jake's cabin in Springfield where he has been stockpiling supplies for this very reason. Little did they know that their journey would be treacherous and forever life-changing.
Surviral is an amazing doomsday scenario novel. The scariest part is that it's extremely plausible. This story is well written, and I found myself getting lost in the moment. You're immediately pulled into the story as you read about how everyone reacted to the outbreak. My only wish is that other than a brief two sentence mention of the prisons, there wasn't any mention if they were all released because there wasn't any food to feed them, or if those that joined Zane Savage's gang were escapees. All in all, this was an awesome albeit realistic read. ( )