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    Rawl's PATRIOTS was awful. Read the one-star reviews before you waste your money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo0920 View Post
    Rawl's PATRIOTS was awful. Read the one-star reviews before you waste your money.
    I did not think it was bad. As a read "lights out" and "one second after" were better but all in all once it gets going.... I also think that many items in the book are a generational issue as well.

    One of my younger solders read it but he had lots of questions about items described that were not known to him.
    I see you running, tell me what your running from

    Nobody's coming, what ya do that was so wrong.

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    Like compasses and tobacco pipes?
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    It's not bad. I give him about a D for realistic, entertaining writing and sort of hero-worshipping his own decisions, but an A for trying to make a fictional story serve as a limited sort of textbook. It was an interesting way to do it, though it's not comprehensive at that, but points you in the right direction on those subjects. C overall.

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    So, other then patriots I've only read Alas, Babylon and some other one set in england. I think it was called no blade of grass or something like that.


    I'm gathering that One Second After and Lights Out are good reads.

    Does anyone have any other suggestions?

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