David Borgenicht’s Action Hero’s Handbook is a good novelty book, but it has some good information and it is an enjoyable read. In the first chapter you learn how to clear a room, secure a crime scene, handle a hostage negotiation, and kill a great white shark. I don’t care who you are, you gotta love a first chapter like that.
Handbook is full of short, fun how-tos for all kinds of improbable situations. It’s not a textbook, but it’s useful to get oriented in case you ever need to keep a bus going at over 50 miles per hour. The only complaint I have about it is that it’s a little short. It doesn’t help that two of the chapters, “love skills” and “paranormal skills” are filled with nothing but platitudes and pointless knowledge, so those are essentially wasted pages.
It only takes a couple days to read Handbook, and it’s a lot of fun to learn all of these skills, so if you’re looking for something to kill time with or a gift for a non-reader, give this one a shot, it’s worth it.
See the full list of books that I’ve read for this project here.
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