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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

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4.0 out of 5 stars In case of Emergency... Rely on yourself, 1 April 2009

By	Rakesh Patel "Rakesh Patel" (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Emergency - This Book Will Save You From Boredom, 26 April 2009

By	N. Roche (Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I'd never read any of the previous works of Neil Strauss so had no frame of reference for his writing style.

Emergency is one of those books I hated to put down even to go asleep. Neils writing style flows so, so well and I was entertained and even a bit horrified (in places - you'll understand when you read it) from start to finish.

Just a fantastic journal of somebody who goes on a quest for surviving the worst and becomes a better human being as part of it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Self-Mocking Paranoid's Path to Self-Sufficiency and Confidence, 17 May 2009

By	Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

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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 entered.

Walter Mitty would have loved this book with its vivid fantasy lived out of preparing for the worst (referred to here as "WTSHTF"). I must admit that quite a few of the sections were pretty interesting to me, as well. I felt regressed to the age of nine at those points in the narrative. The book's drawback is that Mr. Strauss usually emphasizes the emotions of being at risk and developing confidence at the expense of presenting the evidence of how to be effective in a difficult situation.

Ultimately, Emergency comes across as self-parodying for the reader to come to terms with the excess of paranoia here. I felt like the idea behind these experiences was to spend lots of money having exotic adventures and then to write a best-selling book about it.

It also seemed to me that a book of genuine advice for a few more common emergencies would have been more interesting than this take-off on the idea of fleeing a fascist government or surviving civil unrest.

Another drawback is that you probably know more about survival than Strauss did when he began his search for safety. The clueless parts of the book may seem more than a little lame.

I thought the parts about escaping from kidnappers were the best. Those exercises sounded like a lot of fun.

What will you learn? A little about a lot of things including the challenges of getting a second passport if you are an American, opening an offshore banking account, protecting your assets from lawyers and the U.S. government, killing and dressing a goat, getting water with a solar still, preparing caches and escape routes from urban areas, some of the many schools that will prepare you to be able to survive without resources in the wilderness or a city, some forms of emergency training, and how some people try to stay off the radar of any government.

Do you need to know any of this? Probably not. It's more like reading about Robinson Crusoe and being interested in what to do on a desert island.

Mr. Strauss's sense of humor is pretty good. I especially enjoyed the contrast between his take-charge, be-prepared-for-any-eventuality approach and his girl friend's desire to avoid any risk . . . often being afraid about higher risk events than Mr. Strauss was.

Enjoy a little paranoia!

But if you want to feel more loved and confident, Jesus will do you more good.

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