The Zombie Survival Guide

Complete Protection from the Living Dead

By: Max Brooks

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack:
1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection: tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Don't be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset: life. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is an audiobook that can save your life.

©2003 Max Brooks (P)2006 Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he does, and he exhibits it relentlessly here." (Publishers Weekly)

Great read!

Wonderful information provided. Remove the zombie factor, and you still have a fantastic survival guide should the world go south for any other reason. Definitely held my interest. A good read for any survivalist or zombie fan.

Best ever must read

Or listen not before bed though great ride. Be prepared for when it the end comes

Tough Listening

I listened to WWZ and thought it was GREAT, this book is NOT like that until the last 20mins or so. Prior to the end of the book, it us literally a manual on how to survive. No story, No characters.

Great

It was pretty good at moments it sounded like it was a real situation happening and you needed to prepare for so I'd say it was a great listen

Amusing, but still terrifying

This is a pretty good book to listen to you if you want some fictional info-tainment on zombies. The content is humorous, but it still inspires a feeling of panic and terror if such a thing were to actually happen. The first hour was lackluster, when it's describing the origins and physiology of zombies. However, it suprisingly gains momentum when it gets to the section on weapons, defense, terrain, etc... Though it's meant to be purely fictional, the ideas presented can still be used in other massive-disaster scenarios. The information is still useful even though it's centered around a zombie outbreak.

I'd definately recommend this if you enjoyed World War Z. In addition, a good half of the book is similar to World War Z, as it tells the stories of survivors, but not as gripping and with as much detail as said book. It's done in a historical-drama, following zombie outbreaks from the 50,000 BC, ancient Rome, imperial China, all the way to the present, and how people in those time era and places thought of the zombies and how they fought them.

It's ripe with intelligent, though fictional, tips and strategies. Not anyone could have just written this book. I really enjoyed it.

Interesting topic, but not a good audiobook.

I'm a big fan of anything zombie/zombie survival, so I really enjoyed the content of the book, but the whole 'guide' genre doesn't really lend itself to audiobook format.

Skip this one and get World War Z by Max Brooks instead.

Fun, Fun, Fun

Loads of fun; I'm sure the skills I learned listening to this book will server me well, when the inevitable Zombie war comes about

The book takes itself a little too seriously

Would you listen to The Zombie Survival Guide again? Why?

It would be interesting to listen to again to see what I missed the first time. There was a lot of information that was given and it does tend to get a little bogged down in the details

What did you like best about this story?

There was a story?

Would you listen to another book narrated by Marc Cashman?

No

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

The Zombie survival Guide

Great book for a list person. Well thought out. Fairly accurate facts. Fun.

Awesome read

I loved these books and the readers sound very professional I would definitely recommend good job