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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead | 
 enlarge | Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  337 reviews
Sales Rank: 553
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1400049628
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
EAN: 9781400049622
ASIN: 1400049628
Publication Date: September 16, 2003
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Product Description
The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.
Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack
1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don’t need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.
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 HA!! May 15, 2008
This is a very funny book! It is so serious you will DIE laughing. Just please let's not come back to munch on the rest of us if you do! ;-)
Zombies are real, are you ready? May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Oh my goodness, I had no idea zombies were real; I thought they were just the stuff of fantasy and horror movies, but I was wrong. Max Brooks has opened up my eyes to the biggest threat this world has EVER faced, the threat of undead zombies roaming through the world and killing everyone. BEWARE!
But there is hope my fellow humans. You don't have to be a victim of the zombie invasion. You can live, and this book will tell you how. In it you will learn about the deadly virus, Solanum, which attacks the human brain and turns it into a completely different organ altogether (don't worry; the book will explain it better). Although no trace of the Solanum virus has been found in nature, the search continues. As well as learning the basics of the virus you will also learn how to properly flee an infected zone, build adequate defenses, clear an area of zombies, and if need be live for years in a world ruled by the undead. What are the best weapons to use in a zombie invasion? What makes a motorcycle a better means of transportation then a truck? What types of terrain are preferable when on the run? How do you tell the difference between real zombies and voodoo zombies? All these questions and more are answered in this essential manual.
Don't let yourself become another victim of the zombie menace, arm yourself with knowledge and the know how to defeat these evil creatures. I will be ready when the zombie invasion begins, will you?
Re-read value; VERY high.
This review refers to the Kindle edition of the book May 8, 2008
This book begins from a very silly premise - what if zombies were real? - and then "plays it straight" by presenting a survival manual which is written as if the author was deadly serious about their existence. As a result, the book is a marvelous example of deadpan humor, and I can recommend it to anyone who has an interest in the horror genre, or in any survival or "how-to" manuals.
The Kindle edition of the book does not suffer from any major problems with its layouting, though there are some minor issues. For one, there is often no true "break" before the headlines of the next sub-chapter - an empty line before the headlines would have improved the text flow a bit. For another, the publisher was somewhat sloppy when converting the black-and-white drawings - the conversion resulted in a step pattern along the lines known as the "alias" effect. This doesn't really make them unrecognizable - fortunately, the drawings were pretty simple to begin with - but it is annoying and would have been entirely avoidable with some care if the publisher had been a bit more careful.
But these are only minor issues and not serious enough to subtract a star from the overall rating.
Funny and very serious - - Romero should read as well May 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The greatest of truths are told in a joke!...I like survival horror movies, videogames,...anything that shows, dare I say it, the living human organism fighting to remain in existence. This book was reviewed by many as a laugh out loud comedy and it could be taken as such and in the same breath, this manual has some sound advice all around. When I want to laugh I will look at Day of the Dead and wonder why they did not have a copy of this and if somthing as horrific as corpses walking the earth trying to eat the living ever happens then this book will be the most valuable piece of literature on the planet, hopefully before it is too late. Worth every penny! All horror fans should get this book! I highly recommend it!!
Comedy genius from the son of a comedy genius May 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd owned a copy of this book, but it was stolen. I needed a new one, because this is pure genius. It has influenced the genre of survival comedy books by being (one of) the first(?) I must-buy for fans of his father's work.
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