The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.
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.
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 your 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 book is a deadpan novel that uses common sense and faux testimonies from "survivors" to create an atmosphere that maybe this Zombie Apocolypse could really happen. In any case, if you have this book, be prepared to laugh. Must-have for any zombie-genre collector.
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I finally feel fully prepared for the immanent zombie uprising that historians have been tracking for years. Now that I know how to plan each part of my defense, I feel I may stand a chance against them and it is all because of this book.
Don't let yourself be caught off guard and infected to a life of the damned. Invest in this survival bible now!
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I had really high hopes for this book. I understand that it is meant to be comical. There are a few laughs in it but honestly the writers style is rather dull and gets old very quick into the book. Maybe this isn't suppose to be read straight through sort of like the SAS survival handbook. That book was very boring trying to read straight through but better to just open up and read.
I do like how the guy has some stories made up for zombie events, but he refers to "this incident only happened once" or "this technique has only been successful once before". This became very repetitive. He keeps referring to incidences that are completely made up and it just makes it sound so unrealistic. Now I understand the book is not meant to be taken literally, but if you are going to write a book and make it sound so serious that it's amusing at least don't over-due it by trying to use references every other paragraph.
Another thing is the weapons defense part of the book. I really don't think this guy did more than wikipedia or google different types of weapons. My first argument is the part about blades. He writes that the trench spike is the ultimate weapon. Really? A foot long spike? Better hope your aim is always dead on and that you can maneuver in order to land a blow to the temple and hope you aren't bitten in the process.
He also really underrated a shotgun. The versatility of a shotgun would make it the first weapon I would grab. He writes that shotguns are great for close combat and uses slugs for longer range but why not just use a rifle? Because when zombies actually reach you you're screwed. Slugs can be shot upwards for 100 yard AND expand on impact insuring the there is nothing left of a brain. Carrying a .22 won't do you much good if most of your bullets go straight through the skull. Not to mention the reload time on a rifle (more common ones) will get you killed. Shotguns are just a more economical and versatile choice to me.
It may sound like I have just read to far into all of this but it is for a reason. Honestly it just seems like this guy had an idea and wanted to throw a book together and make money. The subjects that can actually be backed up with information seems to be lacking. It would have been better if it were more real, hard survival knowledge relating to a zombie outbreak and less history of zombies and "reported" cases.
