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Summary: Player's (or Writer's) guide to human survival
Review: I have to confess, I've never found any manaul so amusing! For all you writers and D&D adventures, this guide helps you learn how to deal with all-too-often-occurences with your charcters. Unfortuantely, these things can happen in real life too, so one must be prepared. Now, I wouldn't expect to be able to walk into the cockpit and just take over from this book, but I might be able to radio for help, and (at worst) not-so-leathly land the plane.Though all joking aside, there are important things written in this book that everyone should know how to do. Like escape from a sinking car, deal with down power lines, ecsape bears; mountain lions; and bees, and of course; identify a bomb. It is a lovely travel size, perfect to stuff in your backpack or purse. (It would be assumed you'd read it BEFORE heading out... It would be rather awkard trying to hit the alligator and read at the same time...) Thankfully, one should never really need such information, but should such a tradgey arise, at least you would have been prepared! I do not recomend to live (or die) by this handbook, but if you ever just wanted to know how to survive if your chute doesn't open... Other than that, the authers attack the subject with humor and jovaility in such a way that makes it a good read whether you ever need the advice or not!
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Summary: Fun book to read
Review: Obviously no one is really expecting to ever run across the scenarios in this book, but it was fun to read. But you never know when you will need to know how to spin a car 180 degrees or how to escape from a python.
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Summary: The 18th Emergency for Adults
Review: As a child I loved a book by Betsy Bynum entitled The 18th Emergency which offered all sorts of useful information about horrible situations. Just knowing what to do in an extreme scenario feels like insurance against it. All this and a hilarious illustration of frightening a mountain lion.
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Summary: Very funny!
Review: I found myself laughing as I went from one bad scenario to another. A great tongue and cheek "guide", although I suppose if I ever needed to jump from a moving vehicle, it might come in handy!
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: I don't know if these guys were scared of Y2K or not, but this book is a riot. Now if they could only help me survive my in-laws. If you haven't checked out The Romantic's Guide, it is quite humorous and charming too. Actually a bit more helpful.
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Summary: More fun that useful
Review: Honestly, what are the odds, right? I think some of the entries are more likely to be useful than others. Delivering a baby in a taxicab (or anywhere for that matter) might have come in handy when my friend refused to go to the hospital without her husband, who was stuck in a huge traffic jam. The scuba diving part, you should already know if you're scuba diving, and if you don't know, chances are the book is not going to be handy. All in all, it makes for fun reading.
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Summary: James Bondian Skills
Review: Wow, what a book. Contains all kinds of cool stuff I've always wanted to know. Heres a partial list of whats in the book:-How to jump from a bridge into a lake or river.-How to jump from a multi-story rooftop into a dumpster.-How to run on top of a speeding train.-How to leap from a motorcycle into moving car.-How to deliver a baby in a taxi cab.-How to land an airplane.-How to survive if your parachute fails to open.-How to survive machine gun fire from a passing car.-How to get to the surface if your scuba tank runs out of air.-How to escape quicksand (even if your up to your neck).-How to ram a car.-How to break down a door (exactly where to kick.)-How to break into and hotwire a car.-How to do a 180 degree turn with your car (also known as a bootleggers turn).-How to fight sharks, grizzly bears and mountian lions without any kind of weapons. -How to beat the living hell out of an attacking alligator (where to hit him that will stop him instantly).This is dead serious material. I have no idea why it would be in the humor section of the bookstore. Buy it, learn the material, weave some fantastic tales for the grand kids and become the family legend. I enjoyed this book so much I bought 3 copies for my 'very tough' beer drinking buddies.
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: This is a fun book; the kind of thing you'd want to get your dad for Father's Day. It'll get you thinking like James Bond or an action hero in no time, which is fun, but don't necessarily view this book as gospel. They don't call it "worst-case scenario" for nothing! The book is small, like a field manual, and can easily fit in a backpack or jacket pocket, as intended. Once you get past the disclaimer at the beginning (amusing in itself), the book is broken up into five sections: breaking/entering and escaping; how to fight (and fight off, whether alligators, killer bees, bulls, bears, swordsmen, etc.); jumping/evading; emergency surgery; and survival troubleshooting. The book breaks the various topics down into simple, straightforward how-to's, sometimes accompanied with helpful (?) graphics. Experts were apparently consulted on these various topics, but you have to wonder when these would come up, or perhaps hope they never come up at all! Some of my favorites are "How to jump from a building into a dumpster", "How to survive if your parachute fails to open" and "How to deliver a baby in a taxicab". This book is certainly amusing. I hope sequels to it come out, exploring ever-worse scenarios. I doubt if it'd be much use in a real crisis, because this kind of stuff has to be practiced, and, barring full-time employment in Gatorland, when are you going to have the opportunity to wrestle free of an alligator - when would you want to? Regardless, it's a fun book. Your dad or grandfather will certainly get a kick out of it. I don't mean to seem sexist with that recommendation, but this is such a guy's book. How many women really worry about how to leap from a moving motorcycle to a moving car?
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Summary: Good for a laugh... and more
Review: People need to understand that this book is meant to entertain, moreso than to inform. If you are looking for a serious survival guide, this book is not for you. But if you are looking for a laugh, read on! And you might actually learn some interesting maneuvers along the way. (By the way, it's a great gift for older brothers who had childhood fantasies of becoming a ninja, but ended up in a suit and tie, chained to a PC and analyzing securities...)
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Summary: A fun read.
Review: An entertaining variation on survivalist themed books. It is both practical and outlandish at times, which makes for a good read. I won't repeat the reviews elsewhere that go into more detail. If you want a light read and quick tips on survival skills, this book is suitable. If you want a heftier book and more in depth advice on surviving our sometimes harsh world, try another book like the SAS series. Recommended with the above caveats.
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