The Zombie Survival Guide
review by AcmeMarkets
What can one truly say about this book? It has a nice binding? Perhaps. It’s entertaining? Maybe. It will save your life? Absolutely! This hefty compendium of knowledge has everything you need to know about surviving and combating the living dead. Skeptics will generally be under the notion that this book is worthless because zombies don’t exist. This way of thinking has generally ended up with local authorities finding dead bodies with crushed skulls.
Now the information in the book is nothing short of excellent. It closely details the physiology of zombies, including their senses, behavioral patterns, natural abilities, and even there life spans. It explains how to barricade your home, which weapons to chose when combating the dead, which vehicles are most efficient, and so much more that if I go on, this review will turn into an elaborate list of topics. Bottom line is that this guide is packed to the rim with crucial information for survival. The only thing that bothered me was that some of the information (around 3%-4%) was completely useless. An example would be that the guide explains the advantages and disadvantages of weapons and armor that are completely impossible to attain. An example being a flail, a mace, authentic throwing stars, chain male, plate male, ect. These pages could have been better spent putting more detail into real weapons. Don’t be fooled by my negativity here though. The book still contains plenty of pertinent weapon information.
The reading level of this book is grade school at best, but when you really think about it, that’s the only way it can be. This book was meant to save your life and be a resource you can keep at your fingertips for information during a siege of the living dead. If it required the average person to use a thesaurus the person might as well just sit outside naked and ring a dinner bell.
Another thing worth mentioning is that this book is classified as humor. While the author does throw bits of humor here and there to spice up the writing, you must realize that this is in fact a non-fiction survival guide and zombies are no joking matter. I theorize that no publishing house would take the book as non-fiction because government agencies are always trying to cover up outbreaks of zombies. Therefore this “humor” label is nothing more then a guise to get this necessary book into your hands.
Lastly, if the book does not convince to start gathering supplies and monitoring the news, then perhaps the last 60 or so pages will. These valuable pages include an appendix of recorded attacks since the dawn of time all the way up to a few years ago. Read these accounts so that you can learn from them. Past knowledge can aid you if a similar situation were to arise.
The final word here is buy this book immediately. Even if you hate reading or don’t think zombies are among us (they are), this book can, and will, save your life. This book will only take a few days for the average speed reader to read, so why not invest that time? This is your life after all, why waste it?
10/10