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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This is a great book to read aloud with or to friends and would be a fabulous present for a know-it-all child. It's a great companion volume to any action / adventure movie and, contrary to what the crotchety reader below said, full of some seriously useful tips. Of particular interest are the how to escape from a mountain lion and the defensive driving sections - depending on where you live, those both could come in quite handy. While it is unlikely that I may need to perform most maneuvers presented in the book, it's hilarious to imagine myself in any / all of those settings using these techniques.
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Summary: The action hero's handbook--an entertaining read
Review: Definitely a cool book worth owning, giving, and reading. Funny, interesting info, and even a little bit practical. Be an action hero, or just look like one.
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Summary: A great IM-practical reference giftbook
Review: I loved this book! So many reviews are from men that I wanted to register my approval for women,too. It's a guide for the Xena in all of us. Ignore the reviews that take this book too seriously--it's a fascinating reference book, and who knows? It may save your life, or the life of loved ones. At the very least, it will entertain them a lot.
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Summary: COMPLETE JUNK
Review: These guys have no idea what they're talking about! Like the plane landing scenario--you don't have time to do all the things they tell you to do; YOU'LL BE DEAD! If you're in the line of gunfire from an automatic weapon, you can't run--again, DEAD! And the shark thing, you DO hit them on the nose, it was on Discovery Channel and National Geographic...it's where there sensors are and if you hit a shark there, it will leave you alone. Hitting in the eye will only provoke them. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!
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Summary: a wildly popular gift
Review: I bought this book as a Christmas gift for my nephew. I've now learned that the other 4 members of his family all read it before passing it along to him.
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Summary: even the book looks like it could survive anything
Review: An interesting and charming little book full of the things we see in movies and wondered how to do. Not a whole lot of practical value, but interesting nevertheless.
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Summary: Gread Gift Idea
Review: I got this book for my girlfriend who had just been in a Car Crash about three weeks earlier. I gave it to her for Christmas because I thought she should know what to do if any think else bad happened to her, like much more could happen, but I thought just in case she should have this. Well on Dec. 26th the Day after Christmas she awoke to find her house on fire and the front door was blocked by fire so she went to the back door which was dead bolted and the keys wear hanging by the front door (which was on Fire) so I think it's chapter five in her book that she remembered how to kick down a door. It took a few trys but Finaly she kicked the door open and escaped the fire. Unfortunatlly this book was lost in the fire, but I t saved her from the same fate it suffered, I just wish I could Get her another copie, but it seems it out of print.
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Summary: A "Real Man's Guide to Life's Little Battles"
Review: As a contributor to this book (unpaid) I was rewarded by the authors with an autographed copy. Upon opening it I was delighted with what could only be described as a "What would I do?" guide for potential Walter Mittys. How to take a headpunch, how to wrestle an alligator/shark, how to avoid gunfire, how to escape quicksand, how to land a plane, how to jump out of a moving car, how to get onto a moving freight train and how to survive a sinking automobile (my contribution) are but a few of the entertainingly written and illustrated topics. What guy, sitting in a darkened theater watching Arnold, Sly or John Wayne for that matter, hasn't wondered "How would I get out of (or survive) that situation?" This book answers them all! I purchased several copies for male friends and family members who I know all secretly want to go on a search and destroy mission with Chuck Norris or dig for buried treasure with Indiana Jones.
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Summary: the worst case scenario survival guide
Review: I heard about this book on a radio show and went right to the bookstore to check it out. I was not disappointed! Although written (I assume) with seriousness in mind, I found the entries hilarious and was the hit of the Christmas party as I shared some of the tidbits. I am excited to give this guide to my 11 year old son; I know he will be safe to go out into the world with this in his pocket!
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Summary: Perfect 'guy' gift. Very fun read.
Review: I got this out of pure curiosity and wasn't disappointed. The book clearly details how to do and survive some of the most interesting situations, many of which you have a chance to actually find yourself in. How to get out of the line of gunfire either as the target or as a bystander, how to escape from a car sinking in water, and many others. I ended up buying three more copies for my buddies for Christmas.
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