The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Book Review: They Are Coming?
Summary: 5 Stars
Absolutely brilliant book, extremely funny and gets you extra space on the bus when your reading it! I now feel fully competent of what to do when the undead do rise!Book Review: This book can save your life!
Summary: 5 Stars
George Romero knows it; Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright know it and now thanks to Max Brooks you too can know it: The dead are rising and only your forethought and preparedness can save you and your loved ones! Often found in the humour section, misplaced by booksellers, Brooks' invaluable survival guide takes you through the early indicators and the possible solutions to the full range of Zombie encounters; from a minor Class 1 outbreak to the potential nightmare of a Class 4 global domination. He offers sage advice on suitable defensive/offensive tactics, the pros and cons of a wide range of terrains and weaponry and perhaps most importantly, historical case studies which illustrates some of humanity's greatest triumphs but also the deadly folly of underestimating the risen dead. Brooks' clear to the point prose is both instructive and darkly entertaining. You will never look at your home security, local environment and shuffling neighbours in quite the same way again!Book Review: If You Only Buy One Zombie Survival Guide, Make Sure Its This One
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is without doubt the best Zombie Survival Guide. Having digested its contents, I'm now very comfortable with what I need to be doing when an Outbreak occurs. I'll be drilling my team to ensure we're ready when the time comes.
I'd recommend this book to anyone with more than a passing interest in the Zombie genre, it's a highly amusing take to use a survivalist format that does effectively outline the main elements of the Zombie mythos and apply them to a real world situation. I found myself chuckling along during my morning commute, and the level of detail that the author presents is memorable.
However, there are two flaws with the book that make it only 3 stars for me. Firstly, it's somewhat repetitive and after a while there just isn't much more to be said about how to escape a Zombie. Secondly, the real world examples section at the back is so poor that it soured the read for me. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of human history will find it frustrating that the author did not bother to try and make the material seem realistic, and it should easily have been possible to create a set of Zombie outbreaks that could actually have occurred. I wish that I had not read that part of the book, it would probably have been 4 or 5 stars if it was not there.
Book Review: When there's no more room in hell...
Summary: 5 Stars
Beautifully blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction, this book is an absolute must. I say this because I could barely bring myself to put it down for the entire time I was reading it.
Reinventing the zombie origins, Brooks ascribes the cause of the 'undead plague' to a virulent virus named Solanum, which attacks the brain and allows it to keep functioning even after the organs have shut down and the body begins to decompose. Feeling no pain, and having no awareness of the world around them except for the food on offer, Brooks' zombies are a modern evolution of the zombies on display in Romero's 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead.
Brooks breaks down all the elements that you'll need to survive should a zombie outbreak occur near you. Covering how to stock your house in case of attack, defending it should it become your besieged fortress, going on the run if it all goes wrong, to going on the offensive to take out the undead, he's incredibly thorough about everything from weapons to transport, locations and worse-case scenarios. He even includes a section on how you can survive in the face of a full-scale Zombie Apocalypse. Ray Mears would be proud.
At the end of the book, Brooks points to apparent 'historical' occurrences of zombie outbreaks as a way of showing how the growing threat is being covered up or mishandled. It's testament to his skill as a writer that you can almost believe that they're completely true.
It's an unlikely premise but at least having read this book, you can feel confident that you'll know what to do if the dead ever begin to rise. After all, as the good books says - use your head, and cut off theirs.
Book Review: A must have
Summary: 5 Stars
For a start, if you don't like zombie films, then walk away now. But then if you hated them you wouldn't be here would you? This book is ace and is written in such a serious way that you end up semi-believing it by the end! Even though Zombie's don't exist, this book just sounds like it is exactly what you need in order to survive a potential zombie holocaust.
It is genuinely funny and any fan of the genre will instantly latch onto and understand Brook's writing. I would recommend buying this and World War Z as they compliment each other very well.