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Summary: The Good ,The Bad, And The Great book
Review: The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht is great! It talks about many scary real life sititions. But the cool thing is, it tells you how to face your fears! Here's an example.
I live in New Hampshire and skiing is popoular so I thought it would be a good to learn about snow dangers. "How to surive an avanche" says that if you're skiing and a avalache comes and buries you, don't panic. Stay clam. If you still have your skipole, try to feel for open air. Someone should see your skipole, and come to your rescue.
For all you ocean swimmers, there is a chapter on how to fend off a shark. Punch the shark in the nose and push in its gills. The shark will feel pain and swim off.
I don't know about you. But while I hope to never have to fight off a shark or save myself from an avalanche, I glad I've read this book. My chances of surviving a disaster are MUCH greater! Read this book, and yours will be, too.
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Summary: Serious, yet funny and also practical.
Review: At last, a book that teaches me how to escape being attacked by a mountain lion. I got this book because it had good reviews and seemed to be interesting. It is, its a practical, humourous, book. Its written in a serious manner, but there is obvious humour behind it, some of the topics you encounter are so obsurd its remarkable how these guys thought of the situation. It's a funny book that one day might save your life, what other book can you say that about? 4 Stars. Not as good as some of the other books in the series.
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Summary: funny, but not too funy
Review: This book was funny, but not THAT funny. In many ways, it can actually be quite useful...particularly the driving stunts. Many of the other tidbits of information are stuff you always wondered about.
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Summary: Hilarious, yet useful (in a sick kind of way)
Review: This simple book is a wonderful addition to anyone's collection. Get one for your kid brother (the boyscout), get one for your mother, and most importantly, get one for yourself. Not in many books do you find the appropriate methods for breaking into a car, taking a punch, and wrestling an alligator. Do yourself a favor, and ignore the neigh-sayers who call the book "common sense." This may be true, however most of the material is presented in such a way that it is hilarious. I would say that the most interesting thing about The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is that this book answers those odd questions that you may have thought about, but didn't think that anyone was wacky enough to have thought of an acceptable answer for. Buy this book (or steal it from a good friend) and you just may someday save your own life - you never know when a pesky worst-case scenario will crop up. I also recommend The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel edition.
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Summary: Too bad they had to sell out...
Review: This is an awesome book by itself. It is not meant to be a "serious" survival guide. It has a lot of funny illustrations and pictures which although don't teach you to survive, get a laugh out of you. The only problem is the creators of the book sold out. Instead of just being content with the humor and sales of the book, they had to go and create yet another ... reality tv show which isn't true to the book at all. So show cooperations what you really want and buy this book instead of watching the tv show...
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Summary: Save your money and take my advice instead
Review: 1. Sell your car, hand in your driver's license, and quit driving for good.
2. Never do any home improvements again.
3. Don't deliberately kill yourself.
4. Quit smoking.
5. Don't become an alcoholic. Following these 5 recommendations will increase your chances of survival about 1000 times more than following the advice in this book. What is the point in knowing how to evade a mountain lion or fight off a Great White Shark, when you are literally hundreds of times more likely to die in an automobile accident, commit suicide, die of lung cancer or liver cirrhosis, or die through an accident in the home (yes, believe it or not, home improvement/DIY accidents cause just as many deaths as car crashes). Therefore the advice in this book is a complete waste of time. Oh, but obviously I'm taking it too seriously, this is a "joke" book after all, isn't it? Sorry, but I had more fun when I had my tonsils removed. If you want humour, watch Monty Python or Spinal Tap. If you want survival tips, get "How to Survive" or some pseudo-military handbook. If you want to waste the price of a couple of good beers and a pizza, and spend 3 hours doing nothing remotely productive, buy this book.
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Summary: Oversimplified
Review: I don't usually write reviews, but after reading the other reviews for this book I felt that this "handbook" had gotten far too much praise. I purchased this book halfway expecting a detailed description of how to get out of realistic situations. More importantly, Iiked the concept of the book - so I expected it to be quite entertaining. Well, it failed in both respects. The yellow cover is by far the best feature of this book. Inside the covers, the typeface is large. The author will probably say this is "so you can read it fast in an emergency", but the real reason is that there just is not much content. The majority of the advice is just banal and outdated. There are a couple of interesting facts, like the fact that terminal velocity is 130 miles per hour. But when the majority of the book is just obvious "fillers", it gets boring. If you lack common sense - buy this book. If you look for sound advice on how to survive, spend your money on "The Official Boy Scout Handbook" or take a self defense class.
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Summary: It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory
Review: A great read full of fascinating facts about life threatening situations but let's face it. What are the odds that any of us will need to use this information? Some more practical scenarios would be how to survive:
1. Some bad calamari at the local pasta restaurant
2. A visit to your HMO
3. Your friend's insistence on doing tequila shots
4. Your neighbors 16 year-old son's heavy metal garage band
5. That trip to the opera the missus always wanted
6. Phone solicitors
7. The New Compassionate Conservatives
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Summary: Hilarious!!!
Review: I think it's funny that people take this book so seriously. Yes, it has some potientially helpful tips if you should get yourself in some bizarro situations but I think people are missing the whole point of putting the book together. I love this series, it gets me giggling in just about any situation.
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Summary: Some Things I hope to Never Need to Know
Review: This book was a gift from my daughter because I have adopted the expression "a worst case scenario." In most cases I hope that those who read it never have to use some of the information in the book. For example, I hope that no one needs to know how to wrestle free from an alligator. And I hope that no one who has not trained as a pilot ever needs to know how to land a plane.
However it might be more useful to know how to deal with a downed power line. I've seen more of these than I care to remember. And it might be more useful to know how to use a defibulator. One may soon find AED's in many public places such as airport terminals. And it might be useful to know how to treat frostbite or a leg fracture. Some simple things work; some old wives' tales don't.
Whether the information is useful or not, this book is fun reading. But then I like knowing how to identify a bomb. (wink)
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