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In retospect, I wished I had stopped half way through and started a good book. Later, they are so lethargic that one just whacks them with a shovel to kill them.
If this book is considered "very good" by zombie afficiandos, as it would appear from the majority of the reviews, this is certianly a genre I should avoid. I got this book for Christmas and previously had no experience with zombie literature.
At Yonkers, the zombies are aggresive and over run the military. I found the writing to be boring, the delivery choppy and the theme far too preachy.
Moreover, the book was filled with inconsistencies. As always, I read it to the end to see if it got better.
Don't waste your time on this one.
There were parts that were interesting about rebuliding America after the plague (putting criminals in stocks and public whippings for example) but zzzzzzzzz's for the most part. NOT. I bought this book because I read an article about the 10 scariest books to read and this was one of them. When I read a book like this I like to feel the tension and fear, I want to be afraid. Its a sloooow read, I didn't know what to expect but it certainly was MORE then this. The interview style of writing, bouncing around the world talking to various people how they handled Zombie attacks, AND the politics,politics, politics just bored me to death. This did none of it for me. Oh well.on to the next one.
In the growing sub-genre of zombie fiction, Brooks work stands out. It is the best of the lot. It is gritty and real and smacks with the authenticity of the words of people who have been to hell and back.If you read only one "zombie book", you could do much worse than pick this one.
It has everything from action to emotion and it's intelligent. It is a well done audio book as each interview is met by a different voice. We go from country to country reading what they had to do to survive. The UN was only interested in facts and figures, and so it left out a lot of the individual feelings from his report. The person being interviewed is Todd Wainio he tells just how unprepared the military was with their counter attack.
Brooks travels around the world to find these people so they can give their side of the story. The title of the book pretty much sums up the book, it is an oral history of the zombie war. The novel is basically his whole report, written as a form of protest to not have these people's stories be silenced. Only problem with the audio book is that it is an abridged version so there are a lot of good interviews missing. I'm just going to give out a very fast, easy review.Hands down this is one of the best zombie novels out there.
Many voices in the audio book are familiar as we have Luke Skywalk (Mark Hamill) Jesus from the Big Lebowski (John Turturro) Norman from All in the Family (Rob Reiner) and so many other well known actors, directors. What was to be a moral booster for the American public turned ugly real quick. The battle of Yonkers is what stands out the most. World War Z or WWZ is written in a way that makes you (the reader) believe this was an accrual war that took place a decade ago.
One thing I enjoyed about the book was the style; Brooks chimes in just at the right time to ask just the right questions as the interview goes on.Unlike most books WWZ does not start with the infected already taking over the world and we follow a group of survivors along their journey. I made that mistake. While I review this book I want to make it clear that I am only giving very brief comments on the book so I don't give out many spoilers. The book continues and we hear about other countries counter attack attempts that end in pure horror as military personal are given orders to abandon protected citizens. In order to see what happens next and how the war is finally won by the human race you'll have to read to book.There is an abridged audio book of WWZ. Etc. Although the real origin of the virus remains unknown, the first encounter was in China.I don't want to give out to much detail as the book its self will cover everything better than I can. I missed a lot of good stuff left out of the audio book.
The main plot is about a United Nations Postwar Commission agent (Max Brooks) who is writing a report about the zombie war. I will put a link to the audio bookOver all WWZ is a great novel and I recommend it to anyone interested in zombies. Instead the first person interviewed was one of the doctors that first came into contact with an infected child. Let's move a long to some of the action the book has to offer. If you take anything out of my review please let it be this, do not listen to the audio book before reading the book. I'll give WWZ a rating of 5 Undead Heads out of 5.
This is a book about people dealing with Zombies. How zombies affected the world. The craft involved in making this book is memerizing. A fantastic read.
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