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: Dry and Hilarious
Summary: 4 Stars
There are some jokes that just get funnier the longer you draw them out, and this book is a perfect example of this. It's not the kind of book you sit down and read in one sitting. It's better to just carry it around to consult when you need a laugh - or when the zombies are after you.Book Review: Great novelty gift for Halloween.
Summary: 2 Stars
Outside of it's novelty status the book becomes a bit burdensome after the first 100 pages or so. It really isn't humorous as another review has stated or if it is the effect wears off quickly. It is more of a "scenerio" booklet. There are some inconstancies in the author's description of the behavior and capabilities of the undead. One moment they are shambling and slow and next he makes them seem much faster. At one moment he says they can't climb and next he is saying watch your anchor line for the zombies climbing aboard. The undead seem inspired by the template set by the Romero films. They die by headshots and eat human flesh. The author does take some artistic license and changes them somewhat. All and all though I can't say this book is "bad." The hardest section to read was a very lengthly historical documented section. This book is fun enough to read though once, but sometimes I question was it worth the time invested to finish it.Book Review: Waste of money!
Summary: 1 Stars
What a waste of money and time. This guy is way TOO serious, and from this boring survivalist guide, seen too many Romero movies. He claims zombies are real and his findings are based on real incidences. Fear not, many have checked his sources and found they are all ficticious. Well, with a father like Mel Brooks, what can you expect. Don't waste your money. See Night of the Living Dead instead.
Book Review: A Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
While most so-called "zombie-survival experts" explain that killing blows to the head are the best way to dispatch a zombie, the author of The Zombie Survival Guide goes even further, describing every possible zombie attack scenario and giving the reader the best advice. How can you fight zombies under water? What's the best way to use a compound bow to dispatch the enemy? While chainsaws provide some psychological benefit in battle, are they really your best defense against the undead hordes? I find myself returning again and again to this book, examining the advice and comparing it with my own plans - invariable I find some small detail that I had overlooked in my preparation. Highly reccomended.Book Review: If you buy only one zombie survival manual, buy this one!
Summary: 5 Stars
These are precarious times in which we live. And as such, there have been a great many "survival"-type titles on the bookshelves. Most of these field texts don't give you anything but a mouthful of Greek salad when it comes to protection from the undead. Fortunately, Brooks addresses every possible zombie issue in his useful manual against the reanimated. From terrain, weapons, fortifications and vehicle selection to sensory characteristics of the living dead, Brooks leaves no headstone unturned. His thoroughness is your critical advantage over the panicked masses when the dead rise. For example, I thought that my ATC Vietnam tomahawk would be sufficient primary protection. The manual has made me aware that although my weapon of choice has the skull penetrating power required, it is only effective in close combat against a small number of undead adversaries. Thus, I have supplemented my equipment with a Hammerli Trailside .22 rimfire pistol, a Barnett RC-150 crossbow, and a titanium crowbar.
The logbook at the end of the manual has been particularly useful, as I have recorded one incident in my vicinity already - a bar fight in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where two victims were bitten by a shambling, 'homeless-looking' man. One man died on the way to the hospital and the other succumbed to a blood infection 24 hours later. Families of the victims are pursuing legal action against the hospital because the attending physician had both bodies 'accidentally cremated'.
My one critique is with one particular sentence in the manual, where Brooks equates an "aged" steak as one that has begun to rot, attacked by microbes like all dead flesh. This analogy has put me off red meat for the last month. Perhaps that is a positive thing...