- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: HarperPaperbacks (1 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060898771
- ISBN-13: 978-0060898779
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 204,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Like a George Plimpton for the 21st Century, Neil Strauss has mastered the art of the professional amateur. In Emergency, he manages to find the humor in an otherwise frightening time, with wit, wisdom and often hilarious repercussions."--David Swanson, Maxim
Maxim
In Emergency, he manages to find the humor in an otherwise frightening time, with wit, wisdom and often hilarious repercussions.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've met Neil, on his book tour in London, I'm a huge fan of his book The Game, raved about it to all my friends and have probably brought a dozen or so copies to hand out to friends. When I read it, for me, it had a certain resonance, as I read the stories about as i could understand and related to some ( not all!) of the scenarios that he wrote about. When reading the synopsis about this book, I felt that same. I had often thought about worst case scenarios, what would happen, what could happen and what would I do to survive. Not in an the world is going to end tomorrow outlook, but it's just a little thought at the back of my head in a corner of my mind. With the current state of the world, the economy and the uncertain times, I thought this book would at least be an interesting read.
Strauss's style of writing is easy to read, it certainly kept me hooked and I read it in less then a day. There seemed for me a disconnect between the Strauss of "The game" and the Strauss of this book. Over half the book is dedicated to him looking at ways of dual citizenship. It just seemed to me that he was running around like a headless chicken. The Strauss of the game immersed himself in his subject matter, he learnt from the best, stayed in their world, and took on board all the viewpoints to mesh together everything. This Neil Strauss is asking for lawyers to sort it out for him. He has high powered contacts, can make it to the White House, is in contact with celebs and billionaires and yet sits around trying to figure out how to make this happen? It just seemed to me completely incongruent with the things he had learnt as "Style" in The Game.
There are some interesting talks that he has with a couple of billionaires, and honestly I wished he'd expanded a little bit more about their world.
Long story cut short. He spends the rest of the time with survivalists and emergency responders learning how to live off the land, and generally not being scared by it all. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. I found some useful tips, but generally I had figured out most of it already. It's a strange book. Worth a read, would it save my life? Probably not. That's down to me, and I didn't need a book to tell me that.
Strauss's style of writing is easy to read, it certainly kept me hooked and I read it in less then a day. There seemed for me a disconnect between the Strauss of "The game" and the Strauss of this book. Over half the book is dedicated to him looking at ways of dual citizenship. It just seemed to me that he was running around like a headless chicken. The Strauss of the game immersed himself in his subject matter, he learnt from the best, stayed in their world, and took on board all the viewpoints to mesh together everything. This Neil Strauss is asking for lawyers to sort it out for him. He has high powered contacts, can make it to the White House, is in contact with celebs and billionaires and yet sits around trying to figure out how to make this happen? It just seemed to me completely incongruent with the things he had learnt as "Style" in The Game.
There are some interesting talks that he has with a couple of billionaires, and honestly I wished he'd expanded a little bit more about their world.
Long story cut short. He spends the rest of the time with survivalists and emergency responders learning how to live off the land, and generally not being scared by it all. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. I found some useful tips, but generally I had figured out most of it already. It's a strange book. Worth a read, would it save my life? Probably not. That's down to me, and I didn't need a book to tell me that.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed reading this book. I thought it would be something about what to do when you approach a women of some sort, but I turned out to be wrong, and I found myself enjoying reading a factual type book. Neil Strauss in a phenomenal writer, and can't wait for any upcoming books from him
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Breath-taking and extraordinary account of one man's goal of surviviving any (and I mean any!)potential catastrophe in the America of post-9/11. Strauss learns how to live in nature foregoing modern conveniences for the great outdoors. In the course of the book Strauss picks up numerous skills including tracking, how to survive a kidnapping, and disaster management among others. Read it and be amazed!
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Hype - one mans story of a dangerous chapter heading
I've never read a less interesting more puffed up book and will someone stop writers doing 3 page chapters with all the resulting white space and glaring lack of content, on... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Alan Houghton
A Good little book - enjoyable and easy to read!
I'd read the reviews before I ordered this book.. they didn't look that great, I decided to buy it anyway and Im glad I did as this book was really useful for me. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mr. R. O'regan
He taught you how to get the girl; now learn how to save the day...
This book is not a survival manual - it contains few actual lessons for you to follow. Instead, like The Game, it is an engaging account of how a man who knows nothing of the... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Thomas Ashley
Survival for Oprah fans (ban it!)
Like many people who watch the news i thought a bit of "survivalist" knowledge might be timely. Having read "The long hard road out of hell" i was under no illusion that Neil... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Opinionated 1
Started well, but ...
... for me it got really boring towards the end. Conceptually I thought it was a good idea and some of the info was very interesting. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2010 by Number 6
The Entertaining Line between Humour & Paranoia
This book came to me from a recommendation from Tim Ferriss' blog, whose previous suggestions have been well worth while. Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by A. McBride
Not like The Game
Emergency, I found had little really new or interesting information. In The Game, Straus revealed a whole unknown subculture of dedicated pick-up artists and skills they used. Read more
Published on 1 July 2009 by Robert
A Self-Mocking Paranoid's Path to Self-Sufficiency and Confidence
The ideal reader for this book is someone who feels compelled to start planning how to get out of every room safely in case of an earthquake just as soon as the room is... Read more
Published on 17 May 2009 by Donald Mitchell
Good read
Well written. Follow Strauss through his awakening from city-dweller struggling to make his own coffee to a man capable of making it off the land should the world go pete tong. Read more
Published on 13 May 2009 by Barry O'Shea
Endure, adapt and overcome . . . . your on your own!
Probably the most thought provoking book about surviving as a global citizen I have ever read.
Lots of good points to get you researching whatever is relevant to... Read more
Lots of good points to get you researching whatever is relevant to... Read more
Published on 6 May 2009 by Mr. James Doyle
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