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    Going Home: A Novel

    Written by A. American

    Narrated by Duke Fontaine

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    About this audiobook

    If society collapsed, could you survive?

    When Morgan Carter's car breaks down 250 miles from his home, he figures his weekend plans are ruined. But things are about to get much, much worse: the country's power grid has collapsed. There is no electricity, no running water, no Internet, and no way to know when normalcy will be restored—if it ever will be. An avid survivalist, Morgan takes to the road with his prepper pack on his back.

    During the grueling trek from Tallahassee to his home in Lake County, chaos threatens his every step but Morgan is hell-bent on getting home to his wife and daughters—and he'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. 

    Fans of James Wesley Rawles, William R. Forstchen's One Second After, and The End by G. Michael Hopf will revel in A. American's apocalyptic tale.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 30, 2013
    ISBN9780698161801
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    • 4/5
      It’s guilty pleasure time and I have to admit that I absolutely wallowed in Going Home by A. American. There isn’t a speck of literary value to this book, but it did keep me totally engaged with it’s survival storyline and non-stop action. The main character is over 250 miles from home when the North American power grid shuts down. All he wants to do is get home to his wife and daughters and so he sets out on foot. Luckily he just happens to be a survivalist and he always carries the necessary equipment to survive in most any conditions. Along the way he picks up a young women who also wants to get home and a black truck driver. The three have many adventures along the way, running into black gangs, redneck bullies, some military types and even a pedophile who is in charge of a camp and lording it over the other people. It did seem a little repetitive when almost all the people they met were “bad”. The power failure turned out to be part of a conspiracy by a rogue element in the American government. Assisted by the Homeland Security Department, military rule was being put into effect, but this turned out to be a front for “them” taking what they wanted. A thread of mistrust toward authority and a definite view of city-dwellers as sheep who blindly follow and are totally helpless when all moral authority is removed is on display throughout the story. While I enjoyed the survival aspect of the story, I need to warn others that there were many grammatical and typographical errors that interrupted the overall flow. The female characters were either frightened, clinging vines or harpies that needed to be controlled (by a MAN, of course). Product placement played a strong element as well and left me wondering if Walmart didn’t help foot the bill for publishing the book. Although the last thing I would ever do would be to grab a rifle and jump on an ATV to go hunting, this story is peopled by characters that embrace this lifestyle. Even though I wouldn’t last five minutes in a situation like this I love to read about it. I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I couldn’t put this book down - I devoured it and I will probably do the same with the sequel.
    • 4/5
      Good book overall. I'm in love with the survivalist books lately and this seemed like a reasonable next read. It's nice to read a survival book that isn't full of religious nuts after a steady diet of books by Rawles. Looking forward to the next book in this series.
    • 1/5
      Easily one of the worst books I've read in a long time. I got 80% of the way through it and had to put it down. Poorly written, this steaming pile is actually book 1 of a trilogy. How that ever got approved I'll never know. The author must be somebody's kid at the publishing house. That's the only way I can envision this ridiculously bad book was not only published but also made into an audiobook, which was similarly bad. While listening to the audiobook I couldn't tell if it was just the narrator that was awful, or the book. Then I realized it was both. Avoid this book like the plague, or buy it with plans to use it for making fires when things go awry and we're all in survivalist mode.
    • 4/5
      Riveting, exciting and eye opening. Intricate attention to details. Fleshed out characters, each unique and layered with realistic actions and reactions. Well constructed and planned out plot with an ideal pacing throughout. All this combines with a well written novel you will not want to put down. Even my "I'd rather watch the movie." Non-reader type son picked up this book and refused to return it until he read the whole thing. "I really liked how it was written and how detailed the scenes were. I could picture them easily in my mind. Best book ever."

    • 4/5
      Going Home is a story that captures the reader's attention from the beginning and keeps it throughout Morgan's journey home. The book begins with an event that changes the world as we know it by making everything go dark and leaving Morgan far from home. Being a survivalist, Morgan is more prepared than most and heads home. American introduces a strong narrator in Morgan who is prepared and ready to handle the situation and also introduces some other great characters that Morgan meets along the way. Jess, Thad, and Sarge are all characters that add to the story, and I enjoyed getting a switch in narration midway through so the reader can see what Thad and Sarge are up to when they part ways from Morgan. The book proves to be very hard to put down by making the reader want to see what happens next and find out whether or not Morgan ever makes it home. The book really makes you think since technology is such an important part of everyday life and makes you imagine a world without it. Overall Going Home proved to be a great read, and I am looking forward to reading book two.Received a copy of Going Home through NetGalley for an honest review
    • 4/5
      Whoa, just going to azon to check the pubdate on this and wow, what a diverse reaction in the reviews! It's got a strong 4 star rating with close to 800 reviews at this point in time so do I need to add another review, not really, but my impression anyway :-) This is a cross between post-apocalyptic and survivalist fiction. The end of the world as we knew it as experienced by a few preparedness/survivalist/gung-ho/ex-military types and their families. Nothing wrong with that! Sounded interesting to me but a bit different from the usual dystopian post apocalypse novel being turned out today. The scariness comes in knowing that these events and the way people in general react to them are realistic. This could happen. This is definitely aimed at men, whatever the opposite of chick lit is, that's what this is, barely a female present and testosterone oozing from the pages. I haven't read anything like it since back in the day when I sampled a couple of Mack Bolan (The Executioner) books LOL This read like an action movie for me; I could visualize it as it happened. Lots of action and violence. I mean the main guy kills three people before the book's barely started and they were "justifiable". All the good guys kill bad guys all over the place and they are always "justifiable". Really over the top, action hero movie violence. If this was a serious book, these actions would be deplorable but set within this fictional world it was a lot of fun. I didn't like either of the young men who were trying to get back to their wives and kids but Sarge was a mean old coot with a heart in their somewhere and he's the only character I actually liked. Anyway, this is one of those books, I'll say I loved, not for any literary merit but simply because it gave me an adrenaline rush and it was fun. I have the second book on my Kindle and will be reading it soon.
    • 3/5
      [Going Home] by A. American was an interesting post apocalyptic, survivalist story. It showed the main character, Morgan, as an everyman who only wanted to get home to his family. The problem was that he was stranded far away when something stopped everything from working. Luckily for him he was prepared for the worst.I love this type of story although I am not of the survivalist mindset but the author makes his characters out to be just normal people who want to survive and do the right thing. I would hope that those are really the mentality of most people. Almost everyone in this book who gets killed was on the wrong side of humanity.This book was not overtly political but rather quite humanistic.
    • 4/5
      This first in series book seems obvious that the writer is fairly new to fiction. However, the story is great! It is believable and got me hooked into eventually reading the entire series as well as getting about a dozen other people to read it.