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    Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse
    Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse
    Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse
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    Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse

    By Lucas Klauss

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    A male perspective on sorting love from loss, faith from fear—brimming with humor and romance.

    Phillip’s sophomore year is off to a rough start. One of his best friends ditches him. His track coach singles him out for personalized, torturous training sessions. And his dad decides to clean out all of the emergency supplies from the basement, even though the world could end in disaster at any moment...and even though those supplies are all Phillip has left of his dead mom. Not that he wants to talk about that.

    But then Phillip meets Rebekah. Not only is she unconventionally hot and smart, but she might like him back. As Phillip gets closer to Rebekah, he tries harder and harder to turn himself into the kind of person he thinks she wants him to be. But the question is, can he become that person? And does he really want to? 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateJan 3, 2012
    ISBN9781442423909
    Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse
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    Lucas Klauss

    Lucas Klauss was born and raised in Georgia. He received an MFA in writing for children from the New School, and his humor writing has been featured online at McSweeney’s and College Humor—but mostly at LucasKlauss.com and in 140 characters or fewer on Twitter at @lucas_klauss. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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    • 3/5
      Philip's sophomore year isn't exactly off to a great start: Track is already horrible - running hills in the heat - and now his coach has decided to single him out. One of his best friends has decided to ditch him (and their other best friend) for a group of complete jerks. His dad is selling the emergency supplies that fill their basement - even though the world could end any day now.Philip, who usually enjoys his apocalypse, the-world-is-doomed books finds his attention captured by Rebekah a girl he's never met before who saves him from the wrath of his track coach. And invites him to her church's youth group.Living with an atheist father, Philip knows the youth group won't exactly be an okay activity, nevertheless he finds himself intrigued . .. more so by the chance to see Rebekah again so he goes.Will what he finds there be what he's looking for or will it lead to even more questions.With Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse, I liked the beginning better than the end which I liked better than the middle. The introduction to Phillip Flowers, the main character, his father, his brother, his two best friends - Asher and Mark - and the girl he can't get out of his head, Rebekah draws readers in.Philip's personal relationships - the one he has with his atheist father, the one with his two best friends and the one he develops with Rebekah - are anything but simple. They are real and feel true to life, with their ups and downs and the drama that everyone encounters (just, maybe, ratcheted up a little for sake of the story).As Philip starts attending church with Rebekah and thinks he's found a new purpose or calling for his life, each and every one of the other relationships in his life changes drastically. Either due to his new(found) beliefs or the characters changing with age - or both. It's nice that the stories of the relationship continue parallel to Philip's religious discovery.Philip's decision that Rebekah's church - and really, religion in general - was so definitely for him, didn't quite click with me. I am all for more religion in YA books (maybe not always evangelical religion, though), I just didn't see where he found this great connection.Things in that section of the story seemed to develop either too quickly or without enough development for me to really feel them. I understood Philip wanting to explore religion - especially as we got to see more of his past - but it seemed that he was just suddenly very gung-ho for it.There were also too many anti-gay remarks for me to be okay with. I can understand that the novel was dealing with a) teenage boys and b) evangelical Christians but . . . I don't think it was necessary.I loved the first part of this book, probably until about fifty percent of the way through. After that, I wasn't as able to connect with the character or understand his reasoning/motivation.Read thanks to S&S's Galley GrabYou might also like:
    • 4/5
      3.5 Stars!Sophomore year has a rough start for Phillip. His friends quit track and leave him to deal with the “Ferret” on his own. One friend ditches him completely to hang out with some douchebags. All the while Phillip still hasn’t come to terms with his Mom’s death…and his Dad keeps trying to get him to talk about it.Then Phillip meets Rebekah…the “unconventionally” hot girl running track with him. She invites him to a youth group meeting at her church, which he goes to, to see her again. And continues to go to youth group, but is Phillip going to see Rebekah? Or is Phillip going because Christianity is starting to resonate with him? Oh and did I mention Phillip’s Dad is a rather staunch Atheist? Makes for some interesting conflict…wouldn’t you say?Honestly, had I known going into this book, how Christianity driven the storyline would be I would have skipped it. Having said that though, I did read it and had kind of a love/hate thing with the book. At times the story was rather “preachy”…I hate being preached at! But there were other aspects to the story that I wanted to find out about. For example…interspersed throughout the book were reflections on the last year of Phillip’s Mom’s life…leading up to her death. I wanted to know what happened there and when it was revealed, it was a total let down after all the build up. It was another one of those times when I would have thrown the book across the room had I not been reading on my kindle.The Christian church in the story is non-denominational, which to me is usually all inclusive, but this one was more fundamentalist. I strongly disagree with a lot of fundamentalist tenants! So the book preached to me about things I strongly disagree with…LOL…Like I said, a bit of a love/hate relationship with this one.I did love Phillip’s Dad…While staunchly Atheist, he did come around to allow Phillip to be honest in his feelings about church and becoming a Christian. I think it was hard for the Dad to support Phillip but his love for his son won out over his beliefs. Another positive, was Phillip finally questioning everything he’d learned…throughout most of the book he’d taken on everyone else’s beliefs and never stopped to think or question anything, prior to that point he was a little parrot regurgitating everything he’d been told by people he assumed knew more than himself.While I wasn’t a fan of the subject matter I can’t argue that the book makes a person think and examine their own beliefs, hence my very strong reactions while I was reading. But do take this as a warning, if you are a non-Christian reading this book, you will be offended! The book and Phillip will be redeemed by the end, so don’t totally give up on him.
    • 2/5
      The Scoop: Phillip is your typical teenage boy. He runs. He has couple of good friends. He has a girlfriend (he thinks). He draws mushroom clouds topped with little hearts (among other things). And he's got a basement full of survival rations (including dirt, fertilizer, a generator and water). Phillip's mother has also recently died and he feels lost in his place in the world. Along comes Rebekah offering him a path to God and, not knowing (or having) his beliefs in place he follows her to youth group, church and even a youth religious conference. On his path to enlightenment Phillip learns more about his father, his friends and himself. My Thoughts: Well, this book wasn't what I thought it was going to be. I knew that it wasn't going to be dystopian or zombies (even though the title implied that a bit, which was a-ok by me--sometimes you need a dystopian break) but I didn't realize how "churchy" it was going to be. And while that isn't something that I mind, per se, it isn't usually my cup of tea and it wasn't what I was expecting going into the book and so it threw me off on how I was expecting to interpret the story. I think this all goes back to my high school days where the popular kids were all part of "youth group" and they talked about what they were doing and, uh, well, you know, it's just me projecting typical high school issues all relating to not being part of the popular crowd on a book that wasn't even part of it--no biggie. But, it's not like I wanted to be a part of that--oh, you know, I think that's enough of my embarrassing high school memories. Anywhoo, Phillip seemed like a typical teenage boy--concerned with how others (his friends, peers and girlfriend) seemed to view him and not very confident in what he believed for himself and how others should be allowed to believe on their own terms. And, of course, like most stories where one of the parents dies Phillip believes it is his fault and he is trying to cope with that internal struggle. I guess he was really looking for somebody or something to show him a way and to truly believe in while he was feeling all adrift in his life--his mother's death, his father wanting to sell her stockpile of survival stuff, one of his best friends was pulling away from him and the constant pushing of his running coach in a mostly negative way. I can see how somebody such as Phillip with all of that weighing down on him would be looking for something--just something. I think also, because his mother was returning to church just before she was killed he probably saw it as a way to connect to her and maybe find the answers that she was also searching for. And, honestly, I didn't find this book bad, offensive or even judgmental or trying to preach the story of God (although some of the characters were a little more "pushy" than I would have liked--um, Ferret, I'm speaking to you) it just wasn't what I was looking for when I was reading the synopsis. And while I think Philip had a break-through in his relationship with God and his focus on what he wants to believe in I didn't really feel that his personal relationships (with his dad, Rebekah and friend, Mark) made any remarkable steps or that his emotional journey towards the acceptance of his mom's withdrawel, depression and eventual death really made any forward progress. So that was a little disappointing to be reading this book where Phillip's emotions touched on all those points but essentially only really resolved one aspect with the conclusion of the book. But, I do have to give the book extra points for such an outstanding cover (which I was able to see even on my e-reader). I loved the bright colors and the paper cutout of what I believe is reminiscent of Phillip's mushroom cloud/heart drawings. I received an advanced copy of this book from Simon and Schuster for a fair and honest review. This book is now available.

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