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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
informative
I liked this but would have liked it more if it was written as a comedy instead of as an actual guide.
Max Brooks, a pretty decent author, brings us the presumably definitive guide on how to defeat and survive a zombie attack. While I appreciate his thoroughness, the guide became dry and a bit tedious after a while.
With that said, you'll learn more than you probably want to know about zombie physiology. How do they reanimate? How do they move? What makes them seek, undoggedly, for human flesh? Brooks reveals that zombies don't have a functioning digestive system, which brings me to my biggest gripe. Without being able to digest food, how do zombie muscles avoid cramping? I know zombies don't feel pain, so they wouldn't care about muscle cramps, but still...muscles need food to contract and pull the skeleton along.
Mr. Brooks, if you read this, please let me know how you'd solve this conundrum. Much thanks!
Moving along...Mr. Brooks does an exhaustively comprehensive job discussing the best weapons to kill a zombie, the best place to hide from a zombie, the best time to travel, the best way to travel, the best way to wait out a zombie attack, different classes of outbreaks and their appropriate response, best vehicles to use, and so on. This is the hardest part of the book to read. Too many scenarios to consider.
The end of the book contains a "history" of "recorded" zombie attacks. Starting from 60,000 B.C. to the modern age, this is the kind of stuff that saves the book. You get to read about the undead all over the world coming to "life" and attacking former friends and loved ones, now merely a meal.
With that said, you'll learn more than you probably want to know about zombie physiology. How do they reanimate? How do they move? What makes them seek, undoggedly, for human flesh? Brooks reveals that zombies don't have a functioning digestive system, which brings me to my biggest gripe. Without being able to digest food, how do zombie muscles avoid cramping? I know zombies don't feel pain, so they wouldn't care about muscle cramps, but still...muscles need food to contract and pull the skeleton along.
Mr. Brooks, if you read this, please let me know how you'd solve this conundrum. Much thanks!
Moving along...Mr. Brooks does an exhaustively comprehensive job discussing the best weapons to kill a zombie, the best place to hide from a zombie, the best time to travel, the best way to travel, the best way to wait out a zombie attack, different classes of outbreaks and their appropriate response, best vehicles to use, and so on. This is the hardest part of the book to read. Too many scenarios to consider.
The end of the book contains a "history" of "recorded" zombie attacks. Starting from 60,000 B.C. to the modern age, this is the kind of stuff that saves the book. You get to read about the undead all over the world coming to "life" and attacking former friends and loved ones, now merely a meal.
Divertente, acuto, fulminante. Adesso devo solo procurarmi un Hummer, un AK47, una katana, viveri e silenziatori e poi scatenate pure l'inferno. Ovviamente con i libri sono giá a posto, ma grazie per avere chiesto.
Entertaining, though a bit too repetitive at times. The historical accounts were definitely the best part.
Great quick little read. Found at Half Price Books awhile ago and was sitting in my to read pile for about a year or so. Discovered during the COVID cleaning of my office. Took a quick break and read this little gem.
Although this was fairly well written, it wasn't really entertaining enough for me to care. I tend to find zombies and crap about zombies to be boring. Sparkly vampires are more frightening, if for totally different reasons . . .
So, the book takes itself pretty seriously. Which is great because it's very thorough in preparing for a zombie outbreak. And is not so great because it's kind of dry sometimes. But it fits in well to the world Max Brooks has created.
This book finished a bit too abruptly with no real purpose or ending, but thoroughly enjoyed the read and the interesting 'facts' given.