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The Action Hero's Handbook: How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Jedi Mind Trick, Track a Fugitive and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills

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This brilliant book expands on the previous Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series and adds humour to what was previously a rather boring instructions you'd find in a box of something you were going to put together type series. In The Action Hero's Handbook the authors pretend you the reader want to be an action hero and guide you step by step through how to spy proof your hotel room, survive being run over by a truck, save someone hanging off the side of a cliff and other stuff your not likely to do in real life but would if you were an action hero like James Bond, Rambo and other action characters.

This book is not afraid to make fun of its advice which previously wasn't done in the Worst-Case Scenario series by the authors although certainly was by readers. There's a lot more advice in here as well. Even if you don't want to be an action hero you'll still laugh you head off from cover to cover. Highly recommended!

The Action Hero's Handbook is a fascinating little book. While
I was a little disappointed in the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and the
Jedi Mind Trick, the rest of the book had very interesting
and potentially useful information like, how to get out
of handcuffs and how to escape a sinking cruise ship.

This is a great book to give to people who live unusual
lives or a book to buy for yourself if you're the kind of
person who travels or just find adventure wherever you
go. You might not have a great need to catch a white
shark, but it's always possible these days to encounter
someone with a gun that you may need to disarm or deal with
an intoxicated driver who seems bent on running you over,
and the Action Hero's Handbook tells you what to do in both circumstances.

As great as the book is, I gave it four stars only because a
few minor things are missing: for example, while the book tells you how to avoid getting hit by a car or a truck, it doesn't cover SUVs, which to me is an important little detail. But overall, it's a great book to have.

When my brother loaned me his copy of this book I was definitely intrigued. Then when I started reading it, I just could not put it down. I loved it so much I just had to get my own copy. It has all sorts of useful information including: how to disarm a thug with a gun, how to save someone from falling off a cliff, how to pick up someone in a bar, how to secure and read a crime scene, how to fight off a ghost, and how to make a clean getaway. So, if you're thinking of becoming an action hero or you just want a good book that is both entertaining and helpful, then this one is a definite must have.

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This is a cute book that covers those 'skills' that are 'essential' to being a real life action hero. This was cute the first time it was done. But now you just get the feeling that they've run out of ideas. I hope this'll be the end of this series, or at least it'll be the last one I buy.

After reading this book, I thought, "Is this book missing anything about how to be a hero. No, it is not missing anything, it tells evrything it promisies. The books tells you (and illustrates how to with drawings) how to catch a great white shark, perform the vulcan nerve pinch, track a fugitive, and many more.

This is an awesome book that tells you information that is really interesting, but you will probably never use most of it. I reccomend this to all different sorts of people who have ever seen an action movie. It's a really cool book.

What can one say, but get this book. Yeah, at first people look at you like you're a weirdo, but soon they are reading over your shoulder and can't stop especially, on the how to establish communication with extraterrestrials (man, now I totally understand Close Encounters of the Third Kind).

Be aware that there are some copies of this book that were bound incorrectly so it seems that there are a chunk of pages missing but you find them later on out of sequence. This could be annoying since you may need some of the misplaced techniques pronto such as, the aforementioned establishing contact with extraterrestrials.

It's a cool gift for anyone and it is very informative. How many books really educuate you on how to do cool things in a simple, straight-forward manner? At first you may resist but soon you are drawn to it's hypnotic, educating charm.

That's exactly how I felt while reading the entire book. It's a great book because not only is it written by two great authors but, it is based upon the experts' opinions (which aren't self-appointed experts). This a great book if you've ever watched an action movie and wondered, "How do they do that!?!" Two thumbs up!

As with the WORST-CASE SCENARIO series that Borgenicht has coauthored, this provides you with the tactics necessary to deal with assorted stereotypical movie situations that could occur in real life from experts who sat down and thought out how to do it. Some are just really farfetched but good for a laugh, like dodging MiGs and how to do Maverick's inverted taunting stunt from TOP GUN (keep about four feet of separation and make sure your vertical stabilizers don't hit), but some are useful, like how to Dirty Dance, how to train for a boxing match, how to survive being hit by a car in the middle of the street, and even how to perform the Jedi Mind Trick (a hypnosis method called "pacing and leading"). It's a good read even if you don't want to be an action hero.