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A review by brent_m
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
3.0
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.