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This looks to be an engagingly told overview of environment and industry in BD form. All of the copy being handwritten made it slow going for me, with French being a very, very distant second language. I ended up flipping through it and couldn't review it fairly.

I learned a good deal from this book - I'm no prepper but I live in an area prone to earthquakes and power and water problems. Some of the advice here is eye-opening (e.g., 'don't store emergency water in flimsy store-bought gallon jugs'). My main issue is that whenever the author mentions another group of humans, he's doing so to take potshots - at the CDC, at other preppers, at CB and ham radio operators, just to name the most recent three. The narrative becomes 'only I know what I'm talking about' and then I go looking for receipts. Footnotes are thin on the ground and often support these group snarks.

So if you know something, you can learn often-important nuances. But if you don't know it, taking his word as authoritative is difficult.

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Hitting a wall and losing traction is very common for me. But never before has the cause been that I wasn't done re-reading the first-kiss scene.