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Do you struggle out of bed each morning and sway lifelessly across the room, mouth agape, arms hanging slack, murmuring unintelligibly? Well, take heart: you’re not alone! But these other staggering, limp, perpetually drowsy folks just happen to be zombies—and it turns out they can teach us a lot about enjoying life. And only here, between the covers of this book, will you learn their secrets to happiness.

Learn how to slow down and move at your own pace, become your own boss, and just devour those irritating people who get in your way. And there’s more, because zombies can offer no-nonsense advice on love, playing to your strengths, and on becoming more adaptable. (via amazon.com)

Updated Feb 21, 2009

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Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your...Brains: Ryan Mecum

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This may be the only corner of entertainment not yet infected by the zombie plague --- haiku! How inventive is this? As much of a "zombie-fiend" as I am, I had never thought of venturing into the ancient Japanese art to search for carnage there. Imagine disjointed and terrifying three-line poems (all in the classic 5-7-5 syllable structure). What a wonderfully creative world we live in. (via amazon.com)

Updated Feb 21, 2009

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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

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Highly entertaining, hopefully not too practical. I just don't want to deal with zombies in real life. Especially, fast ones like in "28 Days Later". I mean real f***ed up people are bad enough. (via amazon.com)

Updated Sep 23, 2008

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Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead: Jonathan Maberry

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When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth...

And law enforcement is ready to take them down!

Since Night of the Living Dead, zombies have been a frightening fixture on the pop culture landscape, lumbering after hapless humans, slurping up brains and veins and whatever warm, fleshy matter they can clench in their rotting limbs. But what if they were real? What would happen if, tomorrow, corpses across the nation began springing up out of their graves and terrorizing the living?

Employing hard science and solid police work not—to mention jaw-dropping (literally!) humor—Zombie CSU is the only guide you need to make it through alive—not undead. At last you can:

Investigate zombie crime scenes, collecting and analyzing evidence of zombie attacks, and create a "murder book"

Examine the psychology of the zombie and develop a perp profile.

Observe medical science pros as they probe felled zombies for forensic clues.

Devise a zombie apocalypse survival scorecard and more!

Complete with lists of must-see zombie flicks from around the globe and tons of tips for kicking undead butt, Zombie CSU features hundreds of interviews with real zombie experts, forensics experts, detectives, filmmakers, and more. (via amazon.com)

Updated Feb 21, 2009

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The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless (Popular Culture and Philosophy): Richard Greene, K. Silem Mohammad

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You cannot imagine how happy I was to see this on a random trip to Border's Books. The cynic in me absolutely hates the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series. It just seems to offer simplistic drivel that won't touch the blues of anyone with more than a couple of synapses firing. But anyway --- this book offers a serious, yes, serious look at the philosophy of the undead of all types --- vampires, zombies, the infected (ala 28 Days Later).

If you never wanted to live forever, you may just change your mind after reading the essays in this book. (via amazon.com)

Updated Feb 22, 2009

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The Zombie Survival Guide Deck: Complete Protection from the Living Dead: Max Brooks

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The dead walk among us. This flashcard deck was created to provide private citizens – people with limited time and resources – with an emergency crash course in basic zombie survival techniques. Organized by theme, this deck includes commonsense advice that will be your first asset in a moment of panic:

Avoid dressing in chain mail, plate mail, or any other heavy body armor: Without the speed or agility to outrun your attackers, you’ll end up as little more than canned food.

Consider all factors when choosing a weapon: Once a chain saw runs out of fuel, it provides as much protection as a handheld stereo.

Know your enemy: Our greatest advantage over the undead is our ability to think. Use your head, and cut off theirs! (via amazon.com)

Updated Feb 22, 2009

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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I don't know if this is any good or not, but I love the premise, so I'll have to take a look!

Updated Jun 15, 2009

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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This book is a wonderful follow up to The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, albeit a more serious and less tongue-in-cheek effort. Presented as a series of first-person accounts and reflections as told to the author, this book explores a worldwide zombie threat and its effect on humanity, and looks at it as both a military and political crisis.

While readers might not always agree with the author’s political views or beliefs, what makes this novel stand out is that it tackles some of the bigger questions in his analysis of what would happen to ordinary people, from various cultures and religions and countries, in the event of a massive global conflict with the undead. (via amazon.com)

Updated Feb 26, 2009

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The Serpent and the Rainbow

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Wade Davis, a Harvard ethnobotanist (someone who studies the relationship between people and plants), took a trip to Haiti in 1982 to study the pharmacology behind the zombie legends there.

He soon learned that a living person can be given a mixture of drugs that will make them seem dead at first, and then put them into a living trance where they can be easily controlled. These drugs included tetrodoxin (a poison found in pufferfish) and datura (a plant that contains toxic hallucinogens).

Davis chronicled the story of Claivius Narcisse, a Haitian man who was poisoned by his brother, turned into a zombie, and made to work as a slave at his brother’s sugar plantation, in his book, The Serpent and the Rainbow. (via amazon.com)

Updated Feb 26, 2009

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Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie: Wade Davis, Richard Evans Schultes

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This book delves a lot deeper into the subject of Haitian zombification than Wade's previous work, "The Serpent and the Rainbow". It also explores the physiological, social, and psychological impact of zombification, and details the chemical compositions of the various poisons reputed to induce a zombie state. (via amazon.com)

Updated Feb 26, 2009