All that said, I’ve begun reading Max Brooks‘ The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead. It’s a heartwarming tale of how to survive the imminent rise of undead flesh-eaters. Real dinner-table stuff.

I’m still in the early portion of the book which defines what zombies are, how they came to be, how they differ from the living and how they spread their kind. I assume that, once I have been fully explained the parameters of this zombie-filled world, the pacing will pick up a little bit and leave some of the redundancy of this earlier portions behind (which I accept as necessary, given the format of this unique tome).

It should also be noted that, while Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is my hands-down favorite book of all time (is my inner nerd showing?), this book is wholly different as it is not a book about a guide, so much as an actual guidebook.

I will leave you this week with a teaser from the back of the book: The top 10 lessons for surviving a zombie attack: 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don’t need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

On second thought, I will leave you with a zombie-themed song by my friend, Jonathan Coulton: Re: Your Brains.