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

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Interesting and fun book...
Some fun stuff, but not the best in the series
Fun
Fun AND Educational
"Chicks only like guys with great skills" - Napoleon Dynamite

The Action Hero's Handbook: How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, Track a Fugitive, and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills
David Borgenicht , and Joe Borgenicht
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B00066R4SE

Book Description

Everyone wants to be an action hero--as smooth as James Bond, as clever as Captain Kirk, as tough as Charlie's Angels. And now you can: The Action Hero's Handbook is the ultimate guide to an action-packed lifestyle, with genuine step-by-step instructions on interrogating a suspect, catching a great white shark, performing the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, stopping a wedding, navigating a ventilation shaft, and much more. All information is reality-based and comes from a host of experts (including FBI agents, marine biologists, karate champions, wedding planners, and air duct cleaners). With more than 35 illustrations throughout, this dynamic little handbook will teach us all how to keep up with the Indiana Joneses.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting and fun book..........2007-01-11

This book has lots of information in it. You probably will never need any of it but it's a fun book to read through.

Some fun stuff, but not the best in the series.......2006-12-29

The Action Hero's Handbook continues the great tradition of the 'Worst Case Scenario' series, using experts to teach - in just a few short pages - how to perform a number of skills, techniques and moves that you've seen (and perhaps envied) in countless movies.

Unfortunately the skills presented are a bit of a mixed bag. Some are not clearly connected with the theme of the book (How to Contact the Dead) or, worse, good in theory but not the clearest, or most interesting, in practice (How to Escape a Sinking Cruise Ship). Others are clearly more complex than outlined here (How to Secure and Read a Crime Scene) and suffer from trying to break down an intricate concept into short bullet points.

Still, plenty of clever allusions (How to Stop a Wedding (presumably at the most dramatic moment)) and really 'useful' info (How to Win a Foot Chase; How to Disarm a Thug With a Gun; How to Turn Sexual Tension Into Mad, Passionate Sex) make this a book worth picking up for the movie aficionado in your life - or you, if you've always secretly thought 'man, it would be cool if I could do *that*!'

Fun.......2006-06-30

I gave this to my husband as an anniversary gift, enscribing it "to my hero," and he really likes it. The style isn't so much outright corny as matter-of-fact like the Worst Case Scenario Survival Guide. The silly items, like How to Perform the Jedi Mind Trick, are described as if they were in the universe of Star Wars or from whereever they were derived, but at the end of the item the author adds the closest match in our world, such as how to get people to go along with your suggestions, using body language and voice modulation. Very fun.

Fun AND Educational.......2006-02-21

When one picks up a book like this, they may worry that it's loaded with a bunch of bunk, pointless, yet somehow humorous information. Oddly enough, this isn't the case with this book.

Each skill described in this book is told with the advice of experts in the field in question. At the same time, though, it's pretty hilarious, and doesn't overuse pop-culture references.

If you're into the "Worst Case Scenario" series, pick this one up. You won't be disappointed.

-Matt

"Chicks only like guys with great skills" - Napoleon Dynamite.......2005-11-14

This is a great "coffee table" book. Something anyone would find interesting and amusing.

The book is broken down into 5 sections:
1. Good Guy Skills
2. Love Skills
3. Paranormal Skills
4. Fighting Skills
5. Escape Skills

With each skill, the author introduces when and why an action hero will need to have the skill to follow. This portion of each section is humorous. The author then goes on to actually describe the skill, in step-by-step fashion. The instruction in this book actually comes from individuals who have great experience with the given skills. Upon seeing this book, you may not exactly expect to get official information, as it is filed in the "homor" section at most booksellers, but you are in fact getting solid, real information, which I feel makes the whole book even funnier. It's as if this is the handbook for the training of the modern real-life action hero.

It's a very amusing read - or just something to thumb through while you're waiting for your wife/girlfriend to get ready to go out.

Highly recommended.

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