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Mythbuster Adam Savage Drunk On A Treadmill

Leave no urban myth untested.

Could you kill an individual by dropping a penny from a skyscraper? Can an unsuspecting scuba diver be sucked out of the water by a firefighting helicopter and get spit out in the middle of a forest fire? Can you save yourself in a plummeting elevator by jumping just before it hits bottom?

Special effects experts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, hosts of the Discovery Channel’s top-rated MythBusters, use modern-day extreme science to show you what’s real and what’s fiction. With photographs, illustrations, blueprints, and exclusive consultations to document the mythbusting process, MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time will consider in detail dozens of urban legends, from exploding toilets to being buried alive — these guys have tested them all. Eye-opening, jaw-dropping, and even laugh-inducing, this book will delight armchair scientists, curious readers, and fans of the show alike. Keith and Kent Zimmerman are the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Hell’s Angel and The Best Damn Sports Book, Period, amid others.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A well-done book based on a great show!
By Readz Alot
I’ve only caught MythBusters a few times on tv, but take pleasure in it sufficient to have shelled out for the book. It’s fun to be capable to read when it comes to their attempts without having to go to the effort to do not forget when the show is on tv …
Well written, with the same sense of humor and fun that Adam and Jamie display on the air.
(And, for the reviewer who panned the book because she ‘didn’t know it was based on a tv show,’ … why ought to you blame the book because you didn’t read the description? The summary very without doubt or question states what the book is about, and what it’s based on!)

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Great pictures and myths- will have to come out with more of these
By Jimbobwe
This is a fun little book with great color pictures and interesting myths. One could be tempted to skip through all the writing when it comes to what they in truth did for the duration of the show and just read if the myth’s busted. Very interesting and easy to just flip through- surely don’t need to read it cover to cover.

Considering these 30 myths were in all likelihood from with regards to 20 of their some episodes, they ought to come out with more books like this so persons who don’t get the Discovery Channel (like me) and may only catch it occasionally someplace else may read up on the myths in these nifty books.

20 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Don’t bother if you watch the show on TV
By Jim Janecek
If you don’t watch TV, then you might find this book vaguely interesting.
But I got this for an XMAS gift and I watch the show on TV. I found this book to be redundant at best.

Other than a bit of background info on the hosts and the producer, there is utterly not one thing in this book that you won’t find on the TV shows.

All the data they cover is just a re-hash of each episode from the TV show, and given the choice, the TV show version is much much better than a print version that in a literal sense has low-resolution “screenshots” from the sequences to illustrate.

I was likewise amazed to find the last 11 pages of the book Absolutely Blank!
This was not a mis-print, it was probably for less to print the book with those pages left blank than to physically leave them out. The writers could not get sufficient selective information to fill in the blank sections?

The book seems to be a rush-job that just capitalizes on the popularity of the TV show.
The TV series this book is based on illustrates everything in the book MUCH clearer than the book itself.

Given the option, buy or rent the DVDs of the TV series and forget regarding this book.

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