(from the back of the book)
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
you 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.
This is for any zombie book lover. I love the pseudo-serious tone of the
book. It is told with humor but the
threat of a zombie attack is presented as a very real problem, something
everyone should be prepared for. There
is a lot of information here and you can tell that a lot of thought and
possibly even research went into this. A
lot of different weapons and vehicles are described and their strengths and
weaknesses explored. You find out why
guns are not always the best defense and what the good and bad points of
holding up in a swamp are. It is humor and it makes you laugh. But part of what makes it funny is that it
does not read as a joke. It is told with
sincerity. You get the impression that
if there really was a zombie attack this book would help you survive. The recorded attacks section in the back
makes the point that you are not preparing for some possible issue in the
future but that zombies are a present problem and have been a problem for a
long time, maybe as far back as 60,000 B.C.
I like the way the evidence for ancient zombies is presented in a way
that you can believe that it was happened upon in an archeological dig or
something. It’s just sketchy enough to
sound real. The accounts do get a little
monotonous toward the end and some of the information feels like it is told
over again as, for example, you get terrain types for ‘On the Run’, ‘On the
Attack’ and ‘Living in an Undead World’ and some of the points are the same in
each. But for the most part the book is
an interesting, amusing, informative, and entertaining read that keeps you
reading.
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