Peak Oil News >> Forums >> Book/Media Reviews >> Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds

Login or Register

View posts since last visit

Menu

News

	Search
	Topics
	Stories Archive
	Submit News

Discussions

	Code of Conduct
	Forums
	Forums Search
	Last 24 Hours
	PO 24hrs
	Peak Blog

Resources

	About Us
	Downloads
	Web Links
	PeakWiki
	PeakPortal
	Focus Search
	Peak TV
	Peak Oil Boston

Members

	Your Account
	Members List
	Ignore List
	JOIN!
	Private Messages

Light Sweet Crude Oil

google

PeakSpeak

Download TeamSpeak
What is PeakSpeak?
Peak Oil on IRC

Member Quotes

NYMEX Crude Oil (Light) ........................121.20 5.64 NYMEX NYH RBOB Gasoline (Globex) ...... 3.0421 .1318

Don’t worry, just a little bump - $70 is just around the corner. Short traders just keep making those margin calls, mortgage the house if you have to. Fortunes await you! PO is for pansies and doomers. At $70 short some more ..... it is going back to $22 .... the world is awash with oil ........ reality has nothing to do with it, its all in those charts!!!!!!!!!!

SELL SELL SELL

Photo Album
Submit Photo

Peakoil.com is You!

member photos

ICM

Cisco & Net App Training

Peak Oil News: Forums

Peakoil.com :: View topic - World War Z by Max Brooks

Usergroups

Log in to check your private messages

World War Z by Max Brooks

Printer-friendly version

Peakoil.com Forum Index -> Book/Media Reviews

View previous topic :: View next topic

Author

Message

RedStateGreen
Light Sweet Crude

Light Sweet Crude

Joined: Sep 16, 2007
Posts: 1093
Location: Oklahoma City, USA

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: World War Z by Max Brooks

Add User to Ignore List

Reply with quote

I have not read this book myself, but Brad Hicks posts a review on his LiveJournal that I think has a lot of good ideas and applications to the possibilities post-peak.

Quote:

... one of the main conventions of the survival horror genre is that unless somebody utterly callous decides early who isn't going to make it and forces the rest of the group to callously abandon at least half, preferably 3/4ths or more, of the group to immediate death, nobody at all will survive. And scientific study of survival in desperate situations shows that it's just not true. On the contrary, the people who survive the longest are the ones who show the most determination to save everybody who can possibly be saved, who err on the side of keeping the group together and alive rather than on the side of callousness, who wait until it really is inescapably obvious that someone isn't going to make it to give up on them. There are almost no genuinely awful situations that can't be made better by having more help. And this seems so obvious to me that until I read that John Barnes essay I was forwarded the other day and that I linked for you, "The Well-Bitten Hand," I completely and utterly failed to see the appeal of survival horror fiction, let alone survival horror themed game shows. Now I think maybe I get it.

_________________
What, so I'm in no end game
Move my piece right off the board

Send private message

Send e-mail

Narz
Light Sweet Crude

Light Sweet Crude

Joined: Nov 25, 2006
Posts: 1361
Location: New York area

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:13 am Post subject: Re: World War Z by Max Brooks

Thanks. It's always nice to hear things like this. Myself, I never took horror movies as an accurate depiction of reality. _________________ My PO Amazon store (shameless plug).

Send private message

Visit poster's website

Display posts from previous:

	Peakoil.com Forum Index -> Book/Media Reviews	All times are GMT - 6 Hours
Page 1 of 1

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

RSS 1.0 News Feed

RSS 2.0 News Feed

RSS Forums Feed