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Author of "The Game" and collaborator of Jenna Jameson's "How to Make Love like a Porn Star" releases new book.
Unlikely survivalist straddles two worlds
By Susan Carpenter
Los Angeles Times
Posted: 05/17/2009 1200 AM PDT
Neil Strauss hardly seems like a guy who'd kill a goat and gut it with his own hands. A slim intellectual in silver jewelry and designer jeans, he doesn't appear to be the kind of person who would stash food in a forest or plot an escape from his Los Angeles-area home using fire trails and a motorcycle he barely knows how to ride.
Yet that's precisely what Strauss has learned to do in the past three years in an effort to prepare himself should society collapse. It's a journey he not only chronicles in his new book, "Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life," but continues to pursue.
Strauss is a guy whose BlackBerry is constantly brimming with projects. (Get motorcycle license. Take pain-resistance training. Grind grain.) He's looking to strike a few items off his list.
"I'm here to pick up a shotgun," he says, stepping up to the counter at Gun World, a Burbank shop whose anteroom is loaded with ammo and shell cases. The shotgun is a Remington 870 Wingmaster — the third part of an unholy trinity that also includes a 9-millimeter pistol and a rifle, all of which he keeps in a hidden safe at his house.
"Three years ago, I never would have been in a gun store," says Strauss, a New York Times music and culture critic before writing the best seller "The Game," a guide to picking up women. He also collaborated with Jenna Jameson on her 2004 memoir "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star."
(Rest of book review and author portrait here):
[link to www.contracostatimes.com]
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