Product Description

Drawing from reams of historical data, laboratory experiments, field research, and eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive and illustrated guide is the only book you'll need to face the greatest challenge mankind has ever encountered. Granted, you probably already know that skills such as wilderness survival, leadership, and basic first aid are important when fighting off hordes of the undead. But The Zombie Survival Guide doesn't stop there, teaching you how to: Identify cases of infection by the zombie virus, Solanum, and recognize the hourly progression of symptoms: 'Hour 8: Numbing Of Extremities And Infected Area, Increased Fever [103-106 Degrees], Increased Dementia, Loss Of Muscular Coordination'; choose the right weapon: 'A Section Of Lead Pipe Will Work For A Single Encounter But Is Too Heavy For Those On The Move'; defend your home: 'A Ten-Foot Cinder-Block Wall, Reinforced Wih Steel Rods And Filled With Concrete, Is The Safest Barrier In Both Class 1 And Class 2 Outbreaks'; and much more. Filled with helpful illustrations and a sample 'Outbreak Journal' that should be kept on your person at all times, The Zombie Survival Guide is the only guide you will need to survive a most certain pandemic. 'Ignorance is the undead's strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy,' Brooks writes. 'Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1072 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
"'So meticulous and well researched that it's more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters' - Esquire 'A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead' - Time Out 'A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side' - New York Post 'Ignorance is the undead's strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy. Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.' (from The Zombie Survival Guide)"

Synopsis
Drawing from reams of historical data, laboratory experiments, field research, and eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive and illustrated guide is the only book you'll need to face the greatest challenge mankind has ever encountered. Granted, you probably already know that skills such as wilderness survival, leadership, and basic first aid are important when fighting off hordes of the undead. But The Zombie Survival Guide doesn't stop there, teaching you how to: Identify cases of infection by the zombie virus, Solanum, and recognize the hourly progression of symptoms: 'Hour 8: Numbing Of Extremities And Infected Area, Increased Fever [103-106 Degrees], Increased Dementia, Loss Of Muscular Coordination'; choose the right weapon: 'A Section Of Lead Pipe Will Work For A Single Encounter But Is Too Heavy For Those On The Move'; defend your home: 'A Ten-Foot Cinder-Block Wall, Reinforced Wih Steel Rods And Filled With Concrete, Is The Safest Barrier In Both Class 1 And Class 2 Outbreaks'; and much more.

Filled with helpful illustrations and a sample 'Outbreak Journal' that should be kept on your person at all times, The Zombie Survival Guide is the only guide you will need to survive a most certain pandemic. 'Ignorance is the undead's strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy,' Brooks writes. 'Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.'

About the Author
Max Brooks is the author of 2003's prescient Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead. He has since received hundreds of awards and honorary degrees from around the world. Last year he received the joint Papal and U.N. citation, Pro Humanitate.

Customer Reviews

It served it perpouse, and gave me a good read.
I'm glad I looked into the product before buying, as I'm seeing alot of dissapointed customers in some aspects.
I actually bought this book as an assistant source for an RPG, though I found it quite enjoyable. It was obvious that the "true stories", wern't true stories, its written as if the world sufferd an undead plauge and this is supposed to help. Its all about perspective.

The cover has been updated in the same style as World War Z. Unfortunatly it doesn't work as well, maybe some white blood splats would liven it up.
World War Z: White, with red blood splats.
ZSG: plain Red.
A little dissapointed there, but its fine.

Reading for the average Zombie?
I read this book before reading World War Z, that book is a very good horror story and I rather regret reading this book before the other since it added little to it and actually made some parts worse (the explanation of the Solan Virus). Skip this one and go straight to World War Z which is good.

This is a spin on survival guides. How to live in a Zombie infested world, and how to notice the first signs of an invasion of the living dead. Plus a little cronicle at the end covering zombie outbreaks.

On the whole a bland reading. It has its good bits and parts but never really gets going.

As a survival guide it is o.k. and has some clever observations and would be an excellent sourcebook for role play.

As an instruction on zombie behavior... not brilliant for a zombie is best not overexplained, similar as the Force in Star Wars - clever concept before the introduction of Midi-chlorians. And the part explaining the difference between regluar Solan Zombies and Tahitian would have been better omitted.

The last part of the book has to do with Zombie outbreaks and here the author could have tried a little harder with his background. Some of the stories are o.k. but many are not and all could have been better with a little more work. I am Icelandic and the part where Icelanders settled Greenland is clever but marred by details like very unicelandic names etc.

On the whole this book wasn't easy to complete, my interest in the book constanly lessened but a few highlights kept me going. It certainly is no book to rave about.

I wrote a book because of this!
It's true, i read this and loved the idea, although the book i wrote ended up nothing like this or what i thought it would; i'm pleased with it though so check out Deathday while you're here, by me, Eugene Bruce thanks