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Extreme Encounters: How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado, and Dozens of Other Unpleasant Experiences...
Extreme Encounters How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand Shredded by Piranhas Swept Up in a Tornado and Dozens of Other Unpleasant Experiences
Author: Greg Emmanuel
After reading The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, did you ever wonder what it's like to be struck by lightning? To run with the bulls in Pamplona? To ride the crushing swell of an avalanche? Extreme Encounters describes these adventures and 37 others with endlessly addictive "you-are-there" second-person narratives-so you chill to the num...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781931686006
ISBN-10: 1931686009
Publication Date: 9/13/2002
Pages: 176
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  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 16 ratings
Publisher: Quirk Books
Book Type: Paperback
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 reviewed Extreme Encounters: How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado, and Dozens of Other Unpleasant Experiences... on + 7 more book reviews
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I found this book a dull read. The concept of the title is what attracted to me...just the way it was written was not appealing to me to finish it.
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 Sandiinmississippi avatar reviewed Extreme Encounters: How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado, and Dozens of Other Unpleasant Experiences... on + 265 more book reviews
Just OK. This is a book which works fine in short bursts of reading (recommend for the porcelain home office). The author does a nice job of describing medically what the encounter does to your system to kill you. Attacked by sharks, you will bleed to death. And he goes on in detail to describe why and how soon bleeding to death kills a human. It's just that there's a sameness to each disaster, as if written from a formula. And there's a certain arch humor which reminds me of a tv adventure reality show script. The tornado description was a high point for me because there is more variety in the telling. All in all, just a pleasant little book with some interesting details, but not a gripping read by any means. However - how many of us want to spend two hours immersed in gory death & disaster? With very few survivors!
reviewed Extreme Encounters: How It Feels to Be Drowned in Quicksand, Shredded by Piranhas, Swept Up in a Tornado, and Dozens of Other Unpleasant Experiences... on + 14 more book reviews
I enjoyed this book. Pretty much exactly what it advertises itself to be.


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