Comments on: My Empire of Dirt

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:57:24 +0000

I read One Second After last year, and it definitely makes you think how much we take for granted. It would make a good movie.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:22:24 +0000

Is it wrong to order One Second After for Kindle?

By: Buckethead

Buckethead — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:18:37 +0000

The mechanics were the best part, but Ringo didn't pay enough attention to the story. One Second After is far superior and well worth reading. It scared the crap out of me, too — utterly plausible, and horrifying in its conclusions.

By: SnakeEater

SnakeEater — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:31:24 +0000

I loved Last Centurion. Give it another try. Yeah the smugness is a little thick at times, but Ringo does a great job of detailing the mechanics of how and why everyday civilization could collapse. I am currently reading One Second After, which is, quite frankly, scaring the hell out of me.

By: Buckethead

Buckethead — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:28:54 +0000

I read the whole thing, but it was frustrating. As you mentioned, the voice of the narrator and author become more than a little conflated. The real annoyance was that the big payoff at the end, the invasion of Detroit, wasn’t even covered, just mentioned in passing.

With a little more work, it could have been not merely interesting, but good, like a lot of Ringo’s work. If a reactionary like me can get irritated by the conservative preachiness, I imagine that leftists who accidentally read it would have their heads explode.

I think one of the central points of the book is actually more credible than most people give it credit for — that if we start applying full on socialist methods in the middle of a crisis like he outlines, rather than in time of peace and relative prosperity, bad things could happen — like Ukraine-in-the-30s bad, if we were dealing with something like the climate conditions that led to the great famine of early 14th century.