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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (Unabridged) | 
 enlarge | Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: audible.com
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  381 reviews
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Drawing from reams of historical data, laboratory experiments, field research, and eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive and illustrated guide is the only book you'll need to face the greatest challenge mankind has ever encountered. Granted, you probably already know that skills such as wilderness survival, leadership, and basic first aid are important when fighting off hordes of the undead. But The Zombie Survival Guide doesn't stop there, teaching you how to: Identify cases of infection by the zombie virus, Solanum, and recognize the hourly progression of symptoms: 'Hour 8: Numbing Of Extremities And Infected Area, Increased Fever [103-106 Degrees], Increased Dementia, Loss Of Muscular Coordination'; choose the right weapon: 'A Section Of Lead Pipe Will Work For A Single Encounter But Is Too Heavy For Those On The Move'; defend your home: 'A Ten-Foot Cinder-Block Wall, Reinforced Wih Steel Rods And Filled With Concrete, Is The Safest Barrier In Both Class 1 And Class 2 Outbreaks'; and much more. Filled with helpful illustrations and a sample 'Outbreak Journal' that should be kept on your person at all times, The Zombie Survival Guide is the only guide you will need to survive a most certain pandemic. 'Ignorance is the undead's strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy,' Brooks writes. 'Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.'
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 Excellent guide for a serious problem January 5, 2009
Most people don't think of the catastrophe that would ensue should a zombie outbreak get out of hand. We have been taught that the government will protect us. But when there is no government - either because they've been eaten by zombies, become zombies themselves, or fled from their posts - we must rely on ourselves to survive.
This book is all about surviving any type of zombie attack. It focuses heavily on preparation, as it should. But it also discusses tactics that can be used in zombie attacks, how to travel through zombie infested land, and so on.
There are a few very minor mistakes in the book. One is the time that it takes a human to die and reanimate after becoming infected. The actual time is somewhat quicker than stated in the book. However, this is a minor complaint, and the advice to stay away from any infected, or any infected corpse for that matter, should be heeded.
 Your one stop guide to the upcoming zombie apocalypse January 2, 2009
With the increase in human population and an increasingly ignorant populace, scientists have estimated a 6o% potential of a class 4 outbreak in the next fifty years. I was once a skeptic, figuring these the tales of wild conspiracy theorists. It wasn't until one of my friends went through his story of horror. In a class 3 outbreak in southern California he was forced to kill his own zombie parents. He never woke up without screaming for three months. I became a believer.
Neer mind the movies, following those leads is sure to get you killed. The handbook shows the ins and outs of every weapon, terrain, and bodily protection. You'll learn why the machete is so powerful, and scoped rifles are so essential to protection from zombies. Until there is a cure to the Solanum virus, remember than a bite means your fate is sealed as becoming one of the dead.
This book is a call to arms. We as a populace must stand out and protest the mass concealment of this ever present threat. When the time comes, we must all be ready to do battle ungainst the living dead. I just bagged my first walking dead in a walk in the upper paninsula, and if it wasn't for the machete I was carrying per the recommendation of this book I would have been a goner. This book saved my life, and it may save yours as well.
Zombie Maximus!!! December 29, 2008
Wow!!!!
Great book. Creepy reading esp when its cold and rainy outside.. Great Humor, Max Brooks didn't fall too far from his dad when the genes were being passed out...
What? No merit badges? December 29, 2008
It's been a few years since I read this book. I was writing my own novel at the time -- with zombies, of course -- and was considering exactly what kind of zombies should I have, and whether they should be the stumbling, idiot type or the rabid, fast type. (Eventually, I settled on a combination, slow, rabid types with variations, but enough about me.)
I thought it was rather an obscure little book. And for good reason at that time. It was shelved not in the sci-fi section of my local brick&mortar bookstore but in the comedy section. Not one to read the biographies of the likes of Mel Brooks, I passed it by for months. Then one day, some enterprising bookseller moved it up to eye level and I noticed it on my way to the john, where I started reading it.
The book has a couple of what are to me amazing characteristics. One, it is readable in the john, like People's magazine, or Hot Rod Mommas (cough, cough) but it's also good for an extended read, for instance in a doctor's waiting room where one has gone to see about the bite given you on the street by that nice looking drooling naked woman.
The book is also cross-generational. I not only enjoyed, but so did my 18-year old son. Most things I read, he turns his nose up and says something like "too derivative," by which he means he's played that video game before.
The twenty-some illustrator I work with has read it, and alerted me to Brooks World War Z. My girl friend, who doesn't read sci-fi, but does read comedy, has read it.
But what the book reminded me most of were my ill-fated days in Boy Scouts. My parents enrolled me, thinking all the activities would bring me out of my pathological day-dreaming. I rebelled after a few weeks, refusing to wear the uniform -- but I kept the Boy Scout handbook. I found all the applicable survival type instruction in the handbook much more interesting that the quasi-military types that infested the local church meeting hall every month. And I much preferred camping alone, where I could hear myself think and listen for strange things moving through the undergrowth.
The guide was a no-nonsense handbook to just what it claimed to be: surviving a zombie plague. There nothing about politics or socialiazation; just stay alive type wisdom. But the Boy Scout guide, had one weakness; It wasn't funny. There was no merit badge for drool humor.
Which gives the zombie survival guide a leg up on the Boy Scout field guide. This little exposition really does belong in both the comedy section (as perhaps I do) and in the sci-fi second too. As brick&mortar booksellers have mixed horror in with "fiction and literature" it should be shelved there too.
The only thing it's missing is a merit badges system for zombie killing. That and perhaps instructions on how to bake a potato in a coal pit. And as that derivative of my DNA, aka my son, never returned the book, I'm in the market for another copy.
reviewification December 26, 2008
this book is a real crack up and presents realistic fixes for real problems. oh it also helps your stratagies in the xbox game "left four dead"
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