Life As We Knew It...

hi karen that does sound like a really good book. I will see if I can get'it in our local library. Oh yes no phone , no electricity and no gas, okay I could manage. I was sixteen before our farm had electricity and we never did have gas.So we would go back to coal and wood for fire and warmth and coal oil for our lamps

Hi Karen!. Thats seem really interested book but I don't know if we already had it publish here. I will check on my the biggest book store site about it. I thing facing situation like that will be really miserable because I had to life with limitation on every thing. I had to admit life with electricity and gas will be really hard, because its really makes are life really easy. Not to mention stoking food which usually canned food, its will be really bored to eat the same food for month, I will be really miss fresh fruit and vegetable. I hope we will never face this kind situation.

I have not read the book....and it would be something to try to have to go through. But I do think I could cope with it...I am a very inventive person when I need to be...and I usually a prepared for emergencies.

i would prefer to survive, but the challenge would be in who would take over the running of the country or countries. I have read a lot of these type of books,(steven king excells in these sort of scenarios)and the scariest thing is the police state that seems to evolve. our government now plus the guys over in belgium seem to delight in giving out impossible directives now, how would it seem in the advent of a global disaster. I would rather be like in 'the day of the triffids' and go back to nature( no not in that way) but in the way of farming and being self sufficient.

I haven’t read the book, it sounds like a good one. I have often thought about being in such a situation and I would imagine that I would do all that is practically possible like stock up on food etc and then I would hang on to my family and pets and do a lot of praying. I guess if my family and I were to survive such a situation it would certainly teach us where priorities are which I would imagine is the thread of the book. I will look for a copy, it sounds like one both my daughter and I would enjoy.

Hi Karen! Sounds like a good book to read under a tree in the back yard on a hot summer day. With all the "horror" stories out there I am thinking we should start stockpiling some food at least. They say prices of food are going to skyrocket here. With the oil spill, the economy going the way it is, cutting out people's unemployment....the list goes on and on. I think we are headed for some kind of disaster. We are growing some (a small amount) of veggies and like I said I'm going to start stockpiling food a little anyway. It's always good to have some on hand in a large storm when the electricity goes out even if we don't have a big disaster.

I very seldom get to read a book anymore, so much other things going on. Would I be able to survive? Well, try going without electric for a couple weeks and see the results. We just have no idea what all it involves, little things that we take for granted! Growing up in the country here in America in the 60's I didn't have all the luxurys that others had, we pumped and carried and heated our own water, noone thinks about these little things. I helped my mother clean chickens, as in kill and pluck feathers! We didn't have the cows to milk so I have no idea about that. I think with my upbringing I would be able to survive better then some, but would probley become a vegetarian much faster, I don't think I could kill and clean and cook then eat my meat!! We just recently visited an American HIstory Village and they reenact how things were done a hundered years ago and it was more hard work then we realize. I had a young girl 14 with me and she said 'oh I wish I could have lived then' and I told her she had "no idea" and she said "oh yes I do, I helped grandma clean strawberrys and cut vegetables up"....and I was thinking oh yeah all with electric!!!!

That does sound like a good read. I often like books in the Young Adult Section.I think I would manage to adapt and survive. I do not want to necessarily find out, though.

Hi Karen, Sounds like a good easy read, ideal for sitting on the beach. I think I would grab a few ration packs from work to add to my exsisting provisions cupboard in case of emergency, which includes firelighters and candles and even water purifuication tablets so would be a survivor but not pleasant, what on earth would we do without the internet eh! Huggles. Ellie :D

That sounds like a really interesting book karen1969! I might have to buy it so I can read it too. I've been looking for a good book to read and I'm really picky about them. Thanks for the information.

I've seen it in bookstores, and I thought it looked pretty interesting but I never picked it up to try it. Personally I think that a good book is a good book no matter what age it was written for. I read children's books, Young Adult, and Adult books all together. I think I could cope in that kind of world. (As long as I still had my books!) Whether or not I was able to survive would probably depend on how many survival-savvy friends I had to tag along with.

I've never heard of this one so I will have to look out for it. I have read several books lately that have been classed as childres or young adults and really enjoyed them!!

That sounds scary...since morning i have seen 4 posts of poeple saying that the world is gonna end in 2012. This sound even scarier. i dont even want to think of it.