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Books : The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by: Max Brooks List Price: £8.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 817 EAN: 9780715633182 ISBN: 071563318X Label: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Manufacturer: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: August 27, 2004 Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Studio: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Sales Rank: 379 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Don't Try To Be A Hero ..........Or You'll End Up A Snack."The Zombie Survival Guide" is a funny but informative spoof defense guide to surviving an attack of the walking dead. I devoured it within a day of buying it as it's a rivetting read. Within its pages you learn: the physical cause of zombification; the strengths and weaknesses of the infected; the best weapons, tactics and defenses if you are forced to face ghouls; the best forms of transport in a zombie outbreak zone; the best places to escape to and avoid; the skills you need to live in a world where zombies are top of the food chain.Also Brooks ends his book with "historical" examples of human triumph and catastrophe in the face the undead menace. Max Brooks is a former "Saturday Night Live" writer and there are a subtle ... Read More: Rating: - Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean...Even the blurb says it: You start reading for fun, fifty pages into it, you buy a machete, just to be sure... And it's true. This is a book I would easily NOT give to someone easily influenced or otherwise instable, because, well, it is so convincing that some of people may pass the funny bits right by without ever noticing it's comedy. If anything in our day and age ever had "War of the Worlds" written all over it, it is this absolute treasure. Having said that, there is, of course, a limit to the amount of lists of items to bring on various zombie-related expeditions you can take in in one evening. Thus, this book is probably one you will pick up again and again rather than read in one go. This applied particularly to ... Read More: Rating: - A Must-Have for Every Zombie FanaticIf the Nostradamus quatrain that says "the dead will rise from their graves" makes you nervous, then you should read this book. I wonder how long it took Brooks to do the research for the book - he obviously knows his weapons, etc. because eveything is so extrememly detailed. The history of zombie sightings in the back is so interesting that he could have sold that section as a separate book. Once you've read the Sruvival Guide, you should also read World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. My Dad did three tours in Vietnam, and he remembers coming across one of the areas mentioned in the history section (I bought ten copies to give to various family & friends); he said they purposely took the long way around ... Read More: Rating:  - It served it perpouse, and gave me a good read.I'm glad I looked into the product before buying, as I'm seeing alot of dissapointed customers in some aspects. I actually bought this book as an assistant source for an RPG, though I found it quite enjoyable. It was obvious that the "true stories", wern't true stories, its written as if the world sufferd an undead plauge and this is supposed to help. Its all about perspective. The cover has been updated in the same style as World War Z. Unfortunatly it doesn't work as well, maybe some white blood splats would liven it up. World War Z: White, with red blood splats. ZSG: plain Red. A little dissapointed there, but its fine. Rating:  - Reading for the average Zombie?I read this book before reading World War Z, that book is a very good horror story and I rather regret reading this book before the other since it added little to it and actually made some parts worse (the explanation of the Solan Virus). Skip this one and go straight to World War Z which is good. This is a spin on survival guides. How to live in a Zombie infested world, and how to notice the first signs of an invasion of the living dead. Plus a little cronicle at the end covering zombie outbreaks. On the whole a bland reading. It has its good bits and parts but never really gets going. As a survival guide it is o.k. and has some clever observations and would be an excellent sourcebook for role play. Read More: |
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