whats a good survival novel or movies?

Rambo 4 hits the screens tomorrow in the US, you should definitely watch all episodes to gather a big bunch of survival knowledge...
J/K, I don't have a serious answer, sorry.

(BTW no offence intended to Rambo movies, I love them, and eagerly wait the 4th movie to hit our French screens, on Feb. 06)
 
Are after fiction or non-fiction? Not sure if this is what you are looking for but here is a link. These are considered apocalyptic and end of the world fiction.

A few that I have read: Dies The Fire (by S M Stirling), The Stand(by Stephen King), Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood).

Some of these books are really out there...

http://www.empty-world.com/book_index.html
 
choubbi said:
Rambo 4 hits the screens tomorrow in the US, you should definitely watch all episodes to gather a big bunch of survival knowledge...
J/K, I don't have a serious answer, sorry.

(BTW no offence intended to Rambo movies, I love them, and eagerly wait the 4th movie to hit our French screens, on Feb. 06)
Click to expand...

So.....do you see it in English? or is it subtitled in French?
 
batosai117 said:
So.....do you see it in English? or is it subtitled in French?
Click to expand...
I'll see it dubbed in French (there are few theaters who show undubbed movies here, except for French movies of course), I'm too used to the French voice of Stallone to see it in English (that's quite rare, though, I prefer almost all other movies undubbed).

PS: one other funny survival movie is "Hunted", where you learn how to forge a knife with a small open wood fire.
 
It is more of a societal survival, rather than individual, but the S. M. Stirling has a series of novels (The Change) that deal with the failure of high technology, including internal combustion, electricity generation, etc. He has some interesting speculation on how things would pan out. The conversion to bows and swords and the associated warfare is a little too D&D for my tastes, but I guess he had to use the concept. They are, in sequence:

Dies the Fire
The Protector's War
A Meeting in Corvallis
The Sunrise Lands

I have read the first three and they are entertaining fluff, but hardly survivalist stuff. One of the first novel heroes is a pilot who keeps his survival pack with him at all times and uses it to save himself and his passengers when the SHTF.
 
Check out a free online book, "Lights Out" by halfast (his online name)
Very cool accountof a small community that bands together after society collapses.
Best of all it's free. Anyone else read this?
 
BrettP said:
Are after fiction or non-fiction? Not sure if this is what you are looking for but here is a link. These are considered apocalyptic and end of the world fiction.

A few that I have read: Dies The Fire (by S M Stirling), The Stand(by Stephen King), Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood).

Some of these books are really out there...

http://www.empty-world.com/book_index.html
Click to expand...

I'll second Dies The Fire - very entertaining with great characters. The whole world experiences an EMP and then some as not only is electricity is gone, but gun powder too. Sounds far fetched, but it is well done. Man (what's left) goes back to the sword, bow, and agriculture...
 
+1 for Life of Pi. This is an amazing and well-written book not only for the outlandish survival situation, but it is spiritually fascinating (whether you're religious or not).

The Road is another amazing book, but it is so nightmarishly disturbing, I don't think I could bear to reread it - especially as a parent. It certainly left an impression. I read it two years ago and I still think of it frequently and have even had bad dreams.
 
I couldn't remember the name of this book, but it just came to me today, a co-worker lent it to me a couple of years ago while I was working in Norway.

We Die Alone by David Howarth

This is the very incredible true story of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian commando that spent a very trying couple of months both surviving outdoors and evading Nazi capture (all while injured) after a foiled raid into German occupied Norway in WWII.

His tale of survival and will to live is inspiring, I highly recommend this book!
 
Bat-21. The (non-fiction) book is better than the movie. I read that when I was a kid, when very young, one of the first 'adult' (not that kinda adult!) books I ever read. Great--and true--survival E&E story.
 
Lot's of good ones already mentioned. I love Farley Mowat.
Check out the PBS Nova Documentary about Shackleton, it will blow your mind!
 
blazink said:
Check out the PBS Nova Documentary about Shackleton, it will blow your mind!
Click to expand...


I second that, I just downloaded this one and watched it on Friday night, it's amazing what they endured, and not one fatality!
 
I liked Seraphim Falls. It was survivally at times.
 
Last of the breed, definately
My son says " My side of the mountain"
First Blood, quinticential
Red Dawn, atleast once a month

Just read Lone Survivor; a new book about a SEAL team decimated in the mountains of Afghanistan, great read
 
I'm reading "Adrift" right now. It's Steve Callahan's account of being lost at sea (middle of the atlantic) in a 5' rubber raft for 76 days.

Ray Mears also did a show on the Steve Callahan's misadventure.
 
The book "Onada" about Lt. Hiroo Onada, the Japanese hold out in the Philipines from WW2 till the 1970's. Amazing book on how he and a few other soldiers made replacement uniforms, scavanged food, preserved the rifles and ammo in good working order, stored stuff in whiskey bottles sealed with pine pitch in caves.

the book has detailed drawings of the shelters and beds they made out of bamboo. They went pretty far with a machette.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top