Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
I had to laugh at myself as I struggled between whether I labeled this book fiction or non-fiction. Sadly, I spend more time planning for the zombie apocalypse than I do my own retirement. This was a great read with tons of information that was fairly new to me. For example, I did not know that George Romero's zombies were inspired by vampires in Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend". Definitely news to me! Most of the information contained on surviving the Z-apocalypse could be useful in most survival scenarios after a major catastrophe but what I found especially interesting was the almost "real feel" to the book when the author had different "experts" weigh in on the zombie's physical and mental makeup and how it could affect your chances of survival, as well as the not often mentioned but still deadly effects of such things as the common cold and infection, PTSD, and other psychological torments one could find themselves facing should the undead ever decide to join the ranks of the living. The chances of the zombie apocalypse might be slim to none, but in the event that "you're wrong and I'm right" - this is definitely one book you'd want to have packed in your emergency kit (which, btw, will do you absolutely no good should you have it at home and the dead start rising while you're stuck in a cubicle on the other side of town). For discussing the effects of zombies on pop culture, it's relevant. For discussing the origins of the zombie mythology, it's informative. But in the survival/"Zombie Apocalypse" portion, it is irresponsibly bad. It makes a mockery of science. Mogk wields it like some pimpled junior high-er who found some bitchin science article but is simply unable to understand its context.I think the only way this book is valuable as a means to preparing for the "Zombie Apocalypse" is if the probability for it didn't approach zero. Just because something has a "probability" doesn't mean it's worth considering. There a certain probability that I'm currently dreaming and/or controlled by The Matrix. In calculus when a probability approaches zero, it is regarded as zero.Mogk was doing fine until he tried to bring a movie monster (collectively the walking dead are a singular entity) up as a realistic prospective threat. He does the institution of science a great disservice by recklessly wielding it.
What do You think about Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies (2011)?
A bit dry. Tastes a tad like somene's trying too hard.
—bananna_13
