whats a good survival novel or movies?

Gerberblades said:
Didn't they make a movie of that book?
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I know someone already answered this, but if you wikipedia the title "Hatchet" or the movie version, "A Cry in the Wild," you will see the list of sequals at either the top or bottom of the page. There were other movies made, but only "A Cry in the Wild" was made almost exactly like the book. The other movies have almost nothing to do with it.
 
batosai117 said:
I know someone already answered this, but if you wikipedia the title "Hatchet" or the movie version, "A Cry in the Wild," you will see the list of sequals at either the top or bottom of the page. There were other movies made, but only "A Cry in the Wild" was made almost exactly like the book. The other movies have almost nothing to do with it.
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Yeah including White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II staring Mark-Paul Gosselaar from Saved by the Bell.
 
Foilist said:
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.
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I read most of "The Road" in one night waiting for it to get better. Finished it the next day after work, still didn't get better.
I read a book in the 80s called "Detour", about some town of cannibals.
Read it while on vacation, even went to a cave where the hillbillies turned off the lights. Talk about almost freaking out. Then I saw "Conan", when it came to the part with the bodies hung up in the background and the woman takes a hand out of the pot to eat. I couldn't eat clam chowder for years. :barf:
 
+1 for Hatchet and Alas Babylon.

I'd forgotten about Alas until you mentioned it Liam! I may need to get to the library...
 
"Endurance"

It is the story of Edward Shackleton's adventure in the Antarctic, as was already mentioned, but is written by combining the crews first hand accounts as recorded in their journals. Outstanding book.

+1 for Adrift. My father bought that for me when I was a teenager and I have read it no less than a dozen times.
 
Adrift is superb. How that guy repaired that puncture in his life raft and kept it afloat still blows my mind. Surviving at sea must be the most difficult environment of all.... or maybe the desert....
 
This is a great thread. Jack London's short story 'To Build a Fire' is a good one. Didn't see it mentioned. It can be found on-line, too (jacklondon.net).

I just finished 'The Road'. I started reading it last night and finished it this morning. Haunting.

Also, I just watched a movie the other day on TCM. It was called 'Naked Prey' from the 60s. It was set in the 1800s and was about a safari guide in Africa whose idiot client gets them all taken by a local tribe (the others don't fare so well; quite terrible). He is 'released' naked to be hunted down by 7 or so of the tribe's warriors. Good movie.
 
ivan51 said:
so far World War Z is perty good:thumbup:
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Let me know how this one plays out...yeah, I know "zombie" books/movies are for fictional-fun, but some are pretty well done for the "survival" aspects...less outdoors and more urban, but still enjoyable reading when it's storming outside! Just finished up "Day by Day Armageddon" by J.L. Bourne...quite a good read for a deployed service-member...just had to support him out of principle:D

ROCK6
 
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