I always thought it would make a dynamite movie ..... better than some of the other Sci Fi "end of the world" crap they make .......

 

I enjoyed it!:thumb:

 

Lucifer's Hammer and The Stand were my first books that got me hunting for PAW fiction. Thanks for bringing up this great book!

 

The scariest part was that politician becoming a " nobleman/ feudal chieftain" . The lesson is, the constitution will not survive a double whammy of modern policrats and a national emergency. The American experience is an aberration in history, it is not the norm. It has to be guarded or the winds of human nature will blow it's flame out. TP

 

Wisdom. Gospel.

That Senator in Lucifer's Hammer was a POS.

Excellent book though! :thumb:

 

The first SHTF book I read and still my favorite. If you enjoyed this you should try Natures End by Whitley Strieber

 

I read it and I really thought it was a great book. I read some reviews online and a lot didn't like it. I wonder why. If you liked The Stand then you will love Swan Song by Robert McCammon. I thought it was better than the stand.

 

Thanks Cinbad and Jojo I'll try to find both of the books you recommended.

 

I read it so many times I had to buy a replacement

 

I'm so tempted to name my member that

Wanna see my lucifer hammer?

 

Great book!

 

I have not read it but I remember my mother reading it and saying how good it was.

Barnes and Nobel has it cheap and even has a sneak peak of the inside of the book.

I think I will order it.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/luc...ers-hammer-larry-niven/1100642855?ean=9780449208137&itm=1&usri=lucifer+s+hammer

 

Great book! Well worth the expense of purchase and time reading it. Pretty much the only thing that bothered me was the Senator ordering everyone in their valley to turn over all their supplies etc. or be banished. I thought "One Second After" handled that subject in a better way.

 

Yeh I agree I'd never turn over my supplies-----if I had any. lol

 

Literally finished it today, good read.....amazing how many folks did not seek to leave, just wanted to watch it unfold, especially Tim Hammer.....I would have been at my observatory instead, before the damn thing hit...He had the means to prep and deploy.....kinda sad....it did work out ok for him though....

 

This book has been in my to be read pile for, oh, what must be 2 years plus. I'm going to have to dig it out when I finish what I am reading now. Just too many posts about how good it is have popped up over the past couple of weeks.

Thanks for the reminder...

 

I thought that the start of it was slow so I skip to about a third of the way in everytime I read it. I read one similar to it but the disaster was an earthquake a while back but can't remember the name of it. The guy that wrote it wasn't too famous and was from Missourri.

I'll figure out the name and post it since anyone who enjoyed the Hammer will like this one too.

Edit: It's called The New Madrid Run. It's not the best written book but it's exciting and you guys would enjoy it.

I rented it from the library but I'll end up buying it.
Amazon.com: The New Madrid Run (9780965124010): Michael Reisig: Books

 

I thought that the start of it was slow so I skip to about a third of the way in everytime I read it. I read one similar to it but the disaster was an earthquake a while back but can't remember the name of it. The guy that wrote it wasn't too famous and was from Missourri.

I'll figure out the name and post it since anyone who enjoyed the Hammer will like this one too.

Edit: It's called The New Madrid Run. It's not the best written book but it's exciting and you guys would enjoy it.

I rented it from the library but I'll end up buying it.
Amazon.com: The New Madrid Run (9780965124010): Michael Reisig: Books

I thought the first part of thebook was very important. you got to know the people and had your likes and dislikes of them from the get go. IMO

 

I just loaned out (lost) my 2nd replacement copy...
No biggie; I have an electronic copy...
Lucifer's Hammer was the book that got me interested in Four Wheeling (I was already into preparedness), and is well written as are most of Niven's and Pournelle's books.
some others you might like;
Footfall
and the "Janissaries" trilogy

Enjoy!

 

I loved reading Lucifer's Hammer, I think what made it great was it was written before the "prepper culture", it didn't have any of the Rawles BS, none of the internet Rambos and since it was written before the age of political correctness, I didn't find myself swearing at the author. I thought the best part was when the surfer dude caught the big and rode it inland.

 

I read it about a month ago. I won't be reading it again any time soon. Where to start, where to start. This book was written by two author's and while reading chapter after chapter big holes would suddenly appear between the paragraphs or between the chapters like the rough copy was getting passed around for the next person to take a stab at writing it.

 

I read this book so much it literally fell apart. Yeah it takes a while to get going, and the authors are terrible at trying to be funny (hot fudge sundae comes this tuesday really isn't funny). Still, it was the first PAW fiction I ever read and still my favorite. I always liked the wizard fellow (Dan?), he saves them all but I think he dies of diabetes as he can't concentrate any time on manufacturing insulin.

 

I just re-read my dad's beat up old copy of Lucifer's Hammer around two months ago. Great book, I agree about the slow start, but then again I just wanted to get to the action. :

Lucifer's Hammer led me to One Second After which led me here, and I began my first attempts at prepping. Maybe that old book from my dead dad wound up in my bookshelf for a reason.

 

The "slow" start is called character development which is what most good writers do to make you interested in the story. Always loved that book, especially the upbeat ending.

 

Sweet book, slow start for sure.

 

Excellent book, I read it about 9 years ago...don't remember thinking the senator was that bad. He seemed like he had a good system and took charge. If he didn't I think everyone would have layed around whining and not cut any wood or started growing vegetables for winter.

My plan would not be to confiscate supplies, but it would be organize everyone. Wood cutters, clothes washers, gardeners, cooks, mechanical, defense, etc. Afterall, the only way we will survive unless you are a loan ranger is to work together and rebuild a society.

Excellent book, much better than Swan Song (couldn't get far in that odd book) and better than The Rift (another New Madrid fault book). Patriots was good, but even some of his ideas were off...One Second After was just plain sad. Along side Lucifer's Hammer my other favorite is Wolf and Iron.

 

The one thing I took from Lucifer's Hammer was that I needed to get a copy of "The Way Things Work". This isn't David McCauley's (sp?) children's book but rather is an encyclopedia of the operating principles of the mechanical devices that comprise the basis for civilization. I finally found a copy, and it along with the Foxfire Series and "The Ancient Engineers" form the basics of my how-to library.

 

Heres the book you mentioned..

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0000913154/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller="]Amazon.com: The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology (9780000913159): Bibliographisches Institut AG, C[arel]. van Amerongen, C. van Amerongen, C. van Amerongen (translator), Bibliographisches Institut: Books[/ame]

 

real slow start!

just finished reading about the big wave being surfed inland and im reading to dig and and do some reading!