Its the epitome of the paranoid, gun worshiping, bunker survival style.
I wasn't planning on picking up Patriots - it seemed a bit like tin foil survivalist porn to me - but maybe I'll consider it;
I withdraw my reconsideration after reading this.

It's just what I expected then. Thanks Art.
By-the-by, I found Lucifer's Hammer to drag quite a bit up front. I suppose setting the stage for world cataclysm was the goal (and perhaps less generally understood in the 70's when the Discovery channel wasn't running how the world could end shows every week), but I too had to force myself to keep going. About a third of the way through, things pick up and then really don't stop, so it's one of those books. This is also the reason why I sometimes force myself through a book if I find the idea interesting. Anyway, it's not a bad read overall. A little unrealistic regarding how the weather/climate/natural disasters occur - but I guess we have better computer modeling now.
