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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
This was a fun little seasonally appropriate palate cleanser of a book. It was well written, subtly humorous, and most importantly, informed me of how best to stay alive and well in the case of a zombie infestation. Written in the form of a "How To" book with accompanying "historical cases" it was quick to get through (even though I took ages since I feel like I'm always busy these days).
This was my second attempt at reading this book. I struggled with this book because it was listed as humor. Once I realized it was not 'haha' humor but a dry overly serious humor, I altered my expectations for the second attempt. BUT, I still just could not get into it. I found the detail to be exhausting and very serious (which is where I guess the humor lies). It just was not for me.
Reading [b:World War Z|8908|World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War|Max Brooks|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165766703s/8908.jpg|817] first may have been the wrong order, this book just did not seem as well executed. Also I think I was expecting more of a field-guide type of thing. Less exposition, more diagrams, pictures, photos etc. This would fare much better as a multimedia experience.
I just unlocked a memory… I was fully prepared to live out the rest of my days alone on the roof in middle school
A lot of this was pretty common sense type stuff... but still fun.
All in all it was decent book, though I have no desire to read it again. There are many good hints on how to survive a zombie uprising, but there were a number of contradictions as well. Keep a group no larger than three but to do certain things you need your group of at least ten. Though my favorite was early in the book discussion on in case of zombies head to the city (though not immediately) and then the rest of the book under no circumstances go to the city. I also found the historical zombie attacks section to be rather painful.
If you have not read The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, you might like this book. It is pretty much the end chapters of the above novel in graphic art form. The illustration I thought were well done. However, in the edition I read right around half of the book were excerpts from other novels from this author's current and future books. I was pissed off. I hate when I think I have ten pages left and there is one page and a excerpt; half of the book being an excerpt is basically unforgivable. My annoyance on the subject is making me think about changing the rating from two stars to one.