Read this book, esp if you need motivation

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My sister found this in a waiting room. It's one of the scariest books I"ve ever read, right up there with The Stand. It's called "Into the Forest" by Jean Hegland, must have been written pre-1995, published by Bantam in 1996. If you're in MA I will personally lend it to you. BTW if you have not yet read The Stand by Stephen King, it makes great summer reading (esp. if you were not planning to enjoy your summer anyway!).

-- judy (wednesdayschild@hotmail.com), July 02, 1999

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Some information please-what's the book (Into The Forest) about?

-- retroman (retro50@agapeis.net), July 02, 1999.

retro, read the posting title. it is about esp and motivation. obviously you have not been blessed with the gift of esp or you would have known that.

a spoon bending smooch.

-- corrine l (corrine@iwaynet.net), July 02, 1999.


Into the Forest is about 2 teenage girls, living in a small forest town of coastal northern California. The large 'outside' US society unravels for unspecified reasons (like many such books, cf. 'Triple Ought', 'The Postman', etc.). The girls have to grow up quickly. Their mom had died a year before the great unraveling, then their father tries to cope before accidentally sawing his leg off with a chainsaw and leaving the girls alone in their house in the woods. Various adventures follow, until the girls realize that they are best of returning to a primitive forest-centered lifestyle. A beautiful book, will touch the heart. Realistic or not, you be the judge.

-- Ct Vronsky (vronsky@anna.com), July 02, 1999.

I am an avid reader and will read anything (except those Romance ones, yuk) (( I do believe in romance)). "Lucifer's Hammer" is excellent for getting ready for y2k, if you believe in TEOTWAWKI. "The New Madrid Run" is semi-okay, but it has a very amature writing style. "The World's Last Dictator" will make you say "Is this for real?" I'm reading Ayn Ryan now, and I just have to read T. Harris's latest.

-- Carol (glear@usa.net), July 02, 1999.

Judy wrote:

"My sister found this in a waiting room. It's one of the scariest books I"ve ever read, right up there with The Stand. It's called "Into the Forest" by Jean Hegland..."

Hmmm... I wouldn't describe Into the Forest as scary, at least not compared with The Stand (now THAT was scary). But Into the Forest was an excellent read and well written, too, IMHO.

Here is a link to it at Amazon:

Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

Sincerely,

-- Jim Morris (prism@bevcomm.net), July 02, 1999.



This is the way the world ends...

This is the way the world ends...

This is the way the world ends...

Not with a bang but with a whimper.

-- Niche (Help us Lord@Help us to.Stand!), July 02, 1999.


Another survival story - "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank.

-- Tee (teefleur@yahoo.com), July 02, 1999.

Into the Forest is a really good story. y2k is not mentioned but it could be the cause of the infrastructure demise catalogued here. What really got me were the descriptions of how horribly, communicable diseases effected this weakened society. For all the preps we make, this would be hard to combat and worries me.

-- fanchon (yurgsieg@pacbell.net), July 02, 1999.

Judy, thanks, but no thanks. I am motivated enough. Although my preps are comming along nicely, I am on the down hill side. I still need to keep going.

I have a week spot when it comes to kids. I look at kids and I get a knot in my stomach. What are all the kids going to do? I go and buy more pasta and beens. I have SO much pasta and beens...I may not be able to keep the world alive but I can definatly keep a hundred alive for a couple of weeks. We have a well and a solar system.

I am getting OT, sorry.....when I start thinking about the kids....I really dont need to read a book. I guess I have an imagination that goes too far. I should have been an auther,(except I can not write, you can tell that by my post) he he.

-- bulldog (sniffin@around.com), July 03, 1999.


Folks

If I could recommend a book on "survival" try "Book of the Eskimo" writen about the life of the Inuit (the people).

You will never think about life the same agian. Fiction pales agianst reality.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), July 03, 1999.



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