Great Book 2010-08-01

Reviewer: Anonymous

This is a great book in the expanding field of survival psychology (for lack of a better term). I wouldn't chose this as my first book in the field, because I think that Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why is really the top, with this coming in a close and respectable second. The survival personality internet test is very neat and may provide you with some insights into your personality. I thought it was pretty accurate. For fans of Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, this is a can't miss. After this book, I'd recommend The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, which is good but comes in third.

Now I'm on to Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties...and How You Can Be, Too. Maybe after that I'll have to revise the list!

I survived reading it 2010-07-17

Reviewer: R. Michael Friends

The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood is an entertaining book, but a little short on anything useful. The stories are interesting, until he jumps around and fills us with useless background on the persons involved (do I care where they were born, where they went to high school and such trivia). The advice he provides is not new or life changing, just what any normal thinking person might do anyway, I suspect that is his way of making us feel good and like his book.

What I disliked is his distortions on the Bosnian War. He was covering the war from Sarajevo for ABC news , and he should have known first had what was going on. Yet he claims without comment that the Serbian army massacred 8000 men and boys in Srebrenica in July of 1995. He goes on to explain in detail, as if fact, the torture, murder and mass graves. This is a little deceptive since nobody really knows how many people from Srebrenica were executed, how many died in combat, and how many were collateral damage, but we do know that most of the victims were military personnel and not civilians. The Hague Tribunal has acknowledged that "a percentage of the bodies in the gravesites examined may have been of men killed in combat," Probably a massacre happened but maybe not like that picture which main stream media has offered.
He also claims that Slobodan Milosevic died of fear in prison during his war crimes trials at the Hague. Fear of what? The trial produced nothing to condemn him, and was going badly (not that I am saying he was innocent). It is more likely Milosevic was poisoned, as his autopsy suggests.

The Survivors Club 2010-07-13

Reviewer: L. Highfield

Came just in time for Father's Day for my Hubby. Recommended by Glenn Beck. A MUST for anyone who wants to survive a crossroad in life. We all will have one, you know. Better to be prepared!!

Attitude and Belief are Key 2010-07-10

Reviewer: Marceau O'Neill

Both entertaining and eye-opening, this study by Ben Sherwood reveals the inexplicable - and well substantiated - truth that one's belief and attitude can promise the likelihood of their survival. I found it refreshing that the author has illustrated both the fragility of life and our built-in capability to overcome seeming futility.

Very enjoyable reading. Stimulating enough that I'll retain it as a "self-reliance" reference work.

Marceau O'Neill,
Author of "I Know You Know I'm Out Here!"

Must Read Information 2010-07-09

Reviewer: Suzanne K. Huebner

This book from beginning to end was full of riveting stories of survival. It brought the reader into the book in a way that was much different than any other I have read. After reading the main part of the book the reader was given the opportunity to fill out a questionairre online to assess their survival mentality. This is a book that I will not just put on a shelf but use as a personal reference book in the future...great job, Ben.