Armor Is Useless: Brooks holds that most body armor would just be dead weight when running from zombies.On a National level, the author proposes this as a possible reason behind Egypt and Israel scaling back on hostilities against each other. Androcles' Lion: During the Recorded Attacks the few survivors of the Egyptian town of Al-marq, after being rescued by an Israeli force, managed to convince their own soldiers (who arrived after the battle) not to kill the captured Israeli's who were sent home.Ambiguous Syntax: The Los Angeles recorded attack talks about the deaths of the original gang members involved in the incident, which can leave some ambiguity as to whether it just means the gang who was holed up in a building besieged by zombies, or the gang and their former rivals who showed up to fight them but ended up fighting alongside them.As the book is presenting only hypothetical speculation rather than attributing any actual zombie abilities to this, it could be a case of an In-Universe error by the author. 90% of Your Brain: Cited by the author (who actually states it as 5% of the brain being utilized by humans) as a possible means by which a zombie may have access to senses not normally available to the living.It also provides information as to what a zombie is, common myths, how to spot a zombie outbreak (the government is covering it up) and historical examples of zombies and how everything turned out.įollowed up three years later by World War Z in which characters make occasional reference to it, usually saying how it wasn't very good.īrooks also wrote The Zombie Survival Guide Recorded Attacks, a comic book depicting some of the recorded attacks with art by Brazilian artist Ibraim Roberson. Additionally, it explains how, if possible, to acquire a remote plot of land, and details describing how to turn it into a place to live for around twenty years, or until the zombies have decomposed. Written in a Deadpan Snarker tone, it is a comical look at what the average person would have to do to survive the Zombie Apocalypse, complete with a guide to arranging suitable food and weapon stores. The book gives a detailed account on how to survive zombie outbreaks (all four levels). The title is pretty much self-explanatory. The Zombie Survival Guide is a book written by Max Brooks.

The zombie survival guide by max brooks