Hello again Bombers, I’m back with a quick review today, this one on Max Brooks’ “The Zombie Survival Guide.” After reading the aforementioned author’s fantastic zombie opus “World War Z,” I felt I would be doing myself a disservice by not checking out his first foray into the undead world.

                Unfortunately, The Zombie Survival Guide is exactly as the title suggests: a rather stale handbook explaining--in excruciating detail--the precautions one should take when dealing with an undead uprising. In fact, Brooks is so painfully thorough throughout the book that you can’t help but think he may have already taken some of the precautionary steps he describes. Whether he’s telling you exactly which kind of nylon rope you should pack into your survival kit (including thickness and weight load capacity) or explaining why a chainsaw is not the preferred close combat weapon of the zombie survivalist, Brooks explores such minutiae as to make you wonder just how seriously he takes himself. The result is a dry take on its squishy subject matter that often feels like reading a textbook.

                All-in-all, The Zombie Survival guide makes for a good coffee table or throne room read. Something to flip through a couple pages of while you’re otherwise engaged and move through at your own pace. Three out of five stars.

Thanks for reading,
End Boss.

                Hello again Bombers, I’m back with a quick review today, this one on Max Brooks’ “The Zombie Survival Guide.” After reading the aforementioned author’s fantastic zombie opus “World War Z,” I felt I would be doing myself a disservice by not checking out his first foray into the undead world.

                Unfortunately, The Zombie Survival Guide is exactly as the title suggests: a rather stale handbook explaining--in excruciating detail--the precautions one should take when dealing with an undead uprising. In fact, Brooks is so painfully thorough throughout the book that you can’t help but think he may have already taken some of the precautionary steps he describes. Whether he’s telling you exactly which kind of nylon rope you should pack into your survival kit (including thickness and weight load capacity) or explaining why a chainsaw is not the preferred close combat weapon of the zombie survivalist, Brooks explores such minutiae as to make you wonder just how seriously he takes himself. The result is a dry take on its squishy subject matter that often feels like reading a textbook.

                All-in-all, The Zombie Survival guide makes for a good coffee table or throne room read. Something to flip through a couple pages of while you’re otherwise engaged and move through at your own pace. Three out of five stars.

Thanks for reading,
End Boss.

The funny thing was it was almost exactly as in-depth as the survival science class i took in high school

World War Z was a great book. Funny note I'm sure you're aware of. Max Brooks is Mel Brooks' son.

Great book! Tthere is also a vampire survival guide that ive seen but not looked at, and the author max brooks wrote world war Z (See dave snider's post.)

I do find it hilarious that someone actually wrote a book on this.

WHATEVER DUDE I HAVE THIS BOOK AND I USED IT TO EQUIP MY HOUSE SO WHEN THE ZOMBIES COME I WILL BE SAFE AND YOU WILL BE EATEN.

I listened to an audio book version of it (Reading text is really tiresome for me) and through out the whole thing i was thinking about what i would do and such and how it would be great to have a video game made build upon the "rules" told in this book. Shamefully though it has not been made into a video game.

It is indeed a bit boring when reading/(listening in my case) for long sessions but it is rather enjoyable in small bursts. Like Sweep suggested its a great book to read while taking a dump.

I thought it was hilarious. Sure it's dry but I think that's supposed to the point. It's a satirization of an actual survival guide. So the dry, in-depth descriptions add to the satire.

I love that book, reading it in HS always got weird looks from teachers. Then they would ask "Whats that?" and I would reply "The most important book ever."

My friend read this book and told me some stuff in it and it just made me laugh so hard. I still haven't checked it out but I want to same with World War Z.

I think it would have benefited from some more humor. Still a fun read.

I loved the Zombie Survival Guide. I read through the whole thing in one sitting. Twice.

I was thinking of getting it, should I?