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The Most Dangerous Novel in America? ("Patriots" by J. W. Rawles)
Daily Beast ^ | 4-16-09 | Sara Nelson

Posted on 04/16/2009 11:33:30 AM PDT by dynachrome

Patriots predicted a financial meltdown and the ensuing chaos. Now it’s a bestselling manifesto. Survivalist James Wesley, Rawles talks to Sara Nelson from an undisclosed location.

Every once in a while, a book you’ve never heard of by a writer you’ve never heard of comes out of the woodwork to become a bestseller. That was the story with the Tim LaHaye Left Behind novels of the 1990s, and with last year’s The Shack, by William P. Young. Both “faith-based,” and both originally either self- or tiny-house published, these books would never be reviewed by the likes of any of the usual literary suspects and have initially small advertising budgets—but score nonetheless, thanks to passionate word of mouth. This year’s entry in the Where-Did-That-Come-From? Sweepstakes is a 384-page paperback novel called Patriots from tiny Berkeley-based Ulysses Press. Published April 7, the book has already hovered around the top 10 on the Amazon bestsellers list. Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 75 percent of sales but does not receive reports from Wal-Mart (a store at which Patriots would likely sell well, thanks to its libertarian, survivalist themes), says 1,500-plus copies have sold in its first week.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Education
KEYWORDS: books; patriots; review; survivalist
I have it and enjoyed reading it. Financial apocalypse fiction or is it?
1 posted on 04/16/2009 11:33:30 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

JW Rawles survival blog. Very good info for SHTF scenarios or any disaster prep.

http://www.survivalblog.com/


2 posted on 04/16/2009 11:34:54 AM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: dynachrome

John Ross is fantastic.


3 posted on 04/16/2009 11:59:50 AM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: dynachrome

Is this the one that was originally titled “Triple Ought”?


4 posted on 04/16/2009 12:06:21 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

That I do not know. I believe it has been re-written a few times for updating. “Fourth edition, expanded”


5 posted on 04/16/2009 12:10:28 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: Travis McGee

Self-publishing Ping.


6 posted on 04/16/2009 12:10:31 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Damifino

His book is my original pick for “Most dangerous novel”


7 posted on 04/16/2009 12:11:20 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: dynachrome

Read the book several times. Some interesting tidbits of “tips and tricks” embedded in the story line, although I’m in no position to buy property in Idaho for WTSHTF.


8 posted on 04/16/2009 2:03:36 PM PDT by melissa_in_ga (Welcome to the USSA. Be alert. Stock up.)
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