Perhaps because I read "Lucifer's Hammer" in the 80's I enjoyed it more (it wasn't very out-dated at that time). From another perspective I also read "Patriots". If you take it as a "post-crash apocolypse" novel and read it for entertainment it isn't half bad. It does get "preachy" in places, but hey, some folks are like that, so reading about them isn't necessarily a bad thing. These are, after all, the author's characters, not mine.

"Patriots" for me was a read-it-think-about-it book. Others are merely entertainment.

How many of you also read Jerry Ahern's "The Survivalist"????

I have drooled over owning a pair of Detonics Combat Masters ever since...