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

    Written by David Borgenicht and Joe Borgenicht

    Narrated by Gerard Doyle

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    The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Up with the Indiana Joneses

    For everyone who's ever wanted to be as smooth as James Bond, as clever as Captain Kirk, or as tough as Charlie's Angels, The Action Hero's Handbook is the ultimate guide to the essential skills every action hero needs to survive and thrive in this dangerous but exciting world.

    This book features dozens of real-life action hero techniques, directly from experts in the subjects at hand: FBI agents, sexologists, stuntmen, hypnotists, karate masters, criminologists, detectives, and many others. Learn how to:

    • Catch a great white shark
    • Deliver the Vulcan Nerve Pinch
    • Spyproof your hotel room
    • Win a fight when outnumbered
    • Climb down Mount Rushmore National Monument

    And dozens of other Good Guy Skills, Paranormal Skills, Fighting Skills, and Escape Skills. With meticulously researched step-by-step instructions, The Action Hero's Handbook will get you ready for anything. Good luck-we're all counting on you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 29, 2002
    ISBN9780739304709

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    Reviews for The Action Hero's Handbook

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    • 2/5
      This book was humorous as intended. It was a very quick read. It is not a book that I would probably want to read more than once.
    • 1/5
      I've forced my way through a lot of less-than-stellar books over the past few years. I couldn't make it through this one.The concept here is amusing: take concepts from James Bond/cop movies/scifi and explain how it's done in actual practice. Sure, some of them are fanciful, like how to rappel down Mount Rushmore, but others could be more useful in writing fiction, like how to take fingerprints or be hit by a car.The problems here are twofold:1) The information is bland. It's stuff most anyone would know by watching TV or movies. I wanted nitty-gritty, or extra insight into the process. This might have worked if the material was funny, but...2) It wasn't funny.I'm glad I paid 50 cents for this, and that the money went for charity. At least my purchase did some good.
    • 5/5
      A fun look at how to be an action hero, with tips derived from many of your favorite movies and TV shows. I'm a sucker for books like this -- I've got about a dozen -- but this holds a special place in my collection because of the breadth of scope. Rather than focusing on one character from a movie or show -- Indiana Jones or Batman, for example -- this book tends to cover much more, and as a result, is more "valuable" in that respect. If this kind of book is your cup of tea, be sure to add it to your collection. I hear they have a "action heroine" version, too...
    • 5/5
      If you've ever wanted to be James Bond or Indiana Jones this is the book for you! (Ladies, there is apparently a copy available just for girls, too.)The book offers instruction on how to do a number of things that will prove important in your crime fighting lifestyle. Who doesn't need to know how to take a hit with a chair or jump out of a plane and catch the guy that took the last parachute and safely make it back to Earth?
    • 3/5
      a perfect gift book. This book is great fofr finding out just how to do those things that we wish we could do. How can you survive without knowing how to disarm a jerk with a gun? Or dirty dance?Hmmmm?
    • 4/5
      There is some solid information in this book; tips on fighting, evading, surviving, and making sweet, sweet love to your love interest. This is a guide on how to be the seemingly perfect action hero, knowing how to make it through any given situation that might come up in your duties as the good guy.A handy reference book using advice from experts in their field. If you ever find yourself in these strange situations, this would be a good book to have by your side.