Summer Reading
I just finished reading World War Z by Max Brooks, the creator of the Zombie Survival Handbook. Check out the website some very fun stuff including podcasts of the interviews in the book and a risk calculator, to determine your survivability. The book is written like a government dossier. The introduction starts out with the narrator saying that we was working on The United Nations Post War Commission Report, when his supervisor edited out more than half of it saying that it needed to stick to the facts and to not include the human and emotional elements. Frustrated with his supervisor, the narrator wrote this version for us to understand the impact of the Zombie Wars.
I found the format very interesting and quickly found myself having to remind myself that it’s just fiction. There seems to be something very effective about creating fiction out of formats that are traditionally relegated to documentation, i.e. horror movies made on home cameras. It seems to be easier to identify with the characters when it’s not in a traditional fiction setting and we are led to believe that this did happen. It was a page turner and my mind has been preoccupied with zombie survival ever since. While reading page after page of survivors accounts, I found my mind listing all the things to do and not do in every scenario. The few times I did stop and put the book down was to drive to the surplus store a couple times and grocery store to stock up on supplies for an impending siege defense. Very rarely has a piece of fiction affected my life so much. In my defense, this readiness is not just about fanatical paranoid fanboy delusions, considering all of the headlines about natural disasters and current economic developments, not being prepared for some type of catastrophe is irresponsible.
This leads me to my next book. I’m so excited about this. I read the first chapter online, and I was sucked in instantly. Granted I was already in the mind set, but I had to order this right away.
What would happen if gas jumped to $10.00 per gallon in the span of the next 30 days? A simple thing like the price of gasoline could throw the very balance of humanity into an uproar. Ask yourself this…do you have the skills and provisions needed to survive in the event disaster strikes? Although a work of fiction, imagine yourself in the scenario depicted in the first month of “Day by Day Armageddon.”
Could you survive a total collapse of humanity as you know it?
“Day by Day Armageddon” by J.L.Bourne is written in a journal format by a Naval Pilot. Along with the daily psychological narrative of discovering, planning, and surviving a zombie outbreak. The book contains a lot of insight and details from a military perspective for planning survival during a zombie outbreak. Being ex-military I found myself identifying with this character almost immediately. Needless to say I read the online journal excerpt instantly and found my self ordering the book immediately. While I’m waiting for it to arrive, I’m reviewing the Zombie Survival Handbook. Be Prepared!!
