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  • The Zombie Survival Guide

  • Complete Protection from the Living Dead
  • By: Max Brooks
  • Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
  • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (75 ratings)

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The Zombie Survival Guide

By: Max Brooks
Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
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Drawing from reams of historical data, laboratory experiments, field research, and eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive 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 recognise 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 with Steel Rods and Filled with Concrete, Is the Safest Barrier in Both Class 1 and Class 2 Outbreaks'; and much more. 

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."

©2012 Max Brooks (P)2012 Audible Ltd

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Loved it

I loved listening to this book. Sure, it’s not for everyone, but if you have some interest in zombies, this is for you.

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excellent read

was a compelling read front to end. whilst a flight of fancy it was writen in a text book style

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Read before World War Z

Being a fan of all things zombie related I definatly enjoyed this guide! While there were parts that dragged on a bit it did provide an insight and better understanding of what follows in World War Z

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voice acting is amazing

Stephen Hogan does a great job narrating this novel. feels like a real survival guide

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Totally believable!

Wow! Someone actually created such a story, a history that sounds so believable that it's scary. I now know how to survive a zombie attack.

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Exceptional listen

Listened to this a few times now, I love how it is portrayed fictionally as real-life experiences through time. Makes me feel somewhat knowledgeable for if an apocalypse happens.

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Exceptional tongue-in-cheek.

A lesser book of similar subject matter would have taken itself too seriously, but Mark Walden and Stephen Hogan both seem to have fun with the premise. The book doesn't stray into the territory of farce when it comes to zombies, and provides a reasonable explanation for their existence. Intentionally or not, it makes Walden sound like a conspiracy theorist / insane prepper and I love it.

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great reading

I really enjoyed this in-depth of what you should and shouldn't do book on survival. Brilliantly read also.

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Not what I expected

Having listened to and thoroughly enjoyed World War Z, I was looking forward to another well thought out slice of zombie apocalypse.
I was very disappointed. It is almost as if this book was written by someone else. I found a lot of topics poorly researched and the writing quite amateurish.
Mildly entertaining but an overall disappointment.
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