Neil says that when he started writing his new book, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, his fear factor was at about 6 out of 10. Now that he’s learned some basic survival skills, he feels the factor has been downgraded to a 1 or 2. That’s pretty good. Before he started taking EMT classes, he felt he had to flee when faced with an emergency situation. Now he has joined the California Emergency Mobile Patrol, and feels the responsibility to help, instead. Very good.

This is a heavily marketed book, and definitely written for people who are just starting to think about emergency preparedness. But it’s written with a nod of the hat to the gonzo style of personal journalism manifest by Hunter S. Thompson, and so it is a fairly entertaining read as you find out how to kill a goat. Now that I think of it, perhaps it reminds me more of a Maxim how-to-do-it article. Which is natural, because his first book was apparently an iconoclastic treatise about how to pick up girls, a best-seller called The Game (I didn’t read that one… I’ve already got my Amazon Woman from the Avocado Jungle… really, don’t ask). Or perhaps an otherworldly Mother Jones News feature.

As you see, it defies description. Maybe best to just check it out for yourself at Amazon (the booksellers, not the tribe that inhabits the Avocado Jungle).

Tags: books, emergency, EMT, First Aid, Hunter S. Thompson, latest book, Neil Strauss
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