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The Werewolf's Guide to Life: A Manual for the Newly Bitten

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This book is really fun! A great book to gift to a friend. It's well written, clever and surprisingly chock full of fact.

It's also a good one to read on the bus, when you want the seat next to you to stay open and untaken. Especially if you read it at night, looking shifty and sweaty, with some claw marks put in the cover.

Similar in fashion to The Zen of Zombie and The Vampire Survival Guide, this handbook for the newly bitten werewolf shows you how to handle your transformations, new life, and cravings without hurting anyone. While the book on the whole was mildly entertaining and easy to read, all it really presents is a repetitive reminder on chaining yourself up in a saferoom for three nights a month (your moons). It covers concepts like your different stages you will encounter, longevity, how to feed, who to tell your secret, where to live, and avoiding doctors but always comes back around to securing yourself for those nights. You quickly grow tired of it. There's even mini-sidebars on real people that were purportedly werewolves, at least in the authors' presentation. I will say my teenage son read it after me and he laughed constantly. He's not a bookreader but he finished this in two days so it really interested him. The books not bad but it is far from great. Don't get me wrong, if you like these types of humor, tongue-in-cheek guidebooks, it is certainly worth adding to your collection.

Many people who suddenly are infected by the medical condition known as lycanthropy according to this book die before during their first transformation into a werewolf. The Werewolf's Guide to Life is just what the title suggests, a handy guide that tells you, the recently bitten one, what is about to happen to your body, how when you do transform into a werewolf you won't be able to control yourself from ripping apart any human in your vicinity, and the guide will stress over and over again how important it is that you restrain yourself properly when the next "moon set" occurs. Also importantly that you restrain yourself in a way that will enable you to get yourself out when your full human intelligence returns after you returned to your normal human form. Handily at the back of the book is a nice appendix that tells you every date those three moons will occur until December 2011. Not sure if the publishers will release an updated version for the years after but if not that appendix info will be a bit dated if your reading this review after 2011.

This book dispels the myths and wrongful assumptions that are out there about werewolves. If you've just been bitten you need to read this book. I had never even thought about how still wearing a wedding ring would mean the loss of a finger as the hand expanded cutting off circulation to the finger. Likewise don't make the restraints you are using to secure yourself so as not to wipe out innocent humans to tight for similar reasons. There's tons of information in this manual that you just probably have won't have thought of before it's too late.

There's also information on how to deal with fur chasers (those who want to be bitten by you), werewolf hunters (those who wish to kill you simply because you are a werewolf), where to buy your restraint system materials, where to build it, places you can secure yourself in an emergency, what to do if you got loose during your transformation and killed, the four types of werewolf bodies out there and basically how to live as normal a life as possible with the lycanthropy condition.

This is no boring book of rules or a you won't want to finish how to manual. It is quite entertaining and even if you haven't been bitten yourself quite informative on just learning about lycanthropy and the burdens your friends who may well be transforming into werewolves during every full moon have to deal with. Like learning first aid, this book is worth reading before you're bitten so on the off chance you are, you'll know what to do. Hopefully I'll never need this advice but it's good to know if I am I will know what to do.

It was an interesting book to get through. Not a page turner in any way for me. Entertaining in parts, kind of dry in others. Just ok overall.

i recived this item yesturday and i have to say it is an awesome book and is quite humorus i highly recomend to werewolf fans

Title is inspired from a girl's reaction upon seeing me reading this on the bus. Personally, I like to think of bloodthirsty human-wolf hybrids for what they really are: bloodthirsty human-wolf hybrids. None of this sissy "tear-off-your-shirt-and-leap-into-the-air-like-a-majestic-stag-which-you-could-turn-into-if-your-clan-wasn't-so-hung-up-on-some-old-guy's-death" stuff. But I digress.

The Werewolf's Guide gives a very detailed look around the life of a lycanthrope, addressing several issues such as purebloods, work and recommended living places. A very funny book and also probably extremely helpful if you ever encounter a werewolf. Generally, a nice, light read if you aren't a super serious sort of person that thinks hanging out in Starbuck's is fun. As a bonus, it fits in my bookshelf. Nice!

Well written with internal cross referencing just like a text book. Lots of good clear information. The author must have really worked on this, it shows.

i gave this book to my daughter for xmas. shes 13. it was a hit. she loved it. she read it in like a day. its a cute read. she said "its insightful, funny and a very good book"

this book is really good it talks about the changes you have to go through and how to avoid certain people i think this book should get at least five stars.

The Werewolf's Guide to Life is the best introduction to paranormal beings since The Zombie Survival Guide. I hope that Benicio Del Toro read this while preparing for his role in The Wolfman.