Be Ready When The Shit Goes Down (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
This was surprisingly educational. I started skimming it in the bookstore - it caught my eye - and I knew I had to have it. I must disclose that it is certainly not for younger audiences or the easily offended (though this should have been obvious by the title.) However, this book can help you figure out how it'll go down, how to survive when it goes down, and how to rise above the ashes after it goes down. To really get into this book, you have to be able to handle guy humor and it helps tremendously if you follow UFC, since there are inside jokes sprinkled throughout the book that elude to specific fighters and events in Forrest's career. Don't think this is actually in the new quasi-serious apocaplypse survival genre. This is pure Forrest insanity, covering advice on such diverse topics as forming your own religion with you at the lead, how to build the perfect vehicle for surviving a post-apocalyptic landscape (think Mad Max meets House Crashers), and what wild animals would be the best to try milking and how (giraffes involve a motorcycle). The humor can get really nasty, which one might expect from someone spending far too much time in locker rooms, and if you give this book to your girlfriend or wife to read, you're going to get a lot of 'eww, ikk, is this what you guys really talk about?'. There's relatively little actual fight talk in the book, a few pointers on getting in a good rear-naked choke, etc., so don't expect it to be about MMA. But if you need a break from the grim post-apocalyptic fare you've been reading, and thought a movie like Zombieland was a rollicking good time, you might just be up for this book!
What do You think about Be Ready When The Shit Goes Down (2000)?
Enjoyed his first book more. Found this one dragged a bit in places. Still funny and worth a read.
—sylviaphung
I now feel temporally prepared for most apocalyptic situations! Thanks, Uncle Forrest!
—Kiki
