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Dead Inside: Do Not Enter: Notes from the Zombie Apocalypse
Post Secret meets World War Z in this chilling vision of the fallout following a global zombie pandemic. A gradual mutation of a virulent strain of super flu gives rise to millions of the undead, who quickly overwhelm treatment facilities and swarm cities around the world, leaving survivors on their own against a legion of the infected. This chilling story is told through...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
September 21st 2011
by Chronicle Books
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Because I like graphic novels, zombies (please don't talk to me about the TV adaption of The Walking Dead), and narrative theory (and who doesn't!?) I had high hopes for this book. It's basically a variation on the epistolary novel: a zombie apocalypse told via a series of collected notes and letters, in a range of formats: instructions to loved ones, warning signs, to-do lists, children's stories, public information notices, all written on letterhead, torn boxes, scrap paper, printed forms, pho...more
Immediate Thoughts: Holy shit. THAT'S how you write a motherfucking zombie book. No joke. Review to come.
Not really a review, originally posted here.
Me: Oh, god, Amy. I can already tell that you'll have to read the book I just started. I can TELL.
Me: On second thought...wait, you like books that make you cry, right?
Amy: I LOVE books that make me cry. That's in the book? That gave me chills!
Me: YES! The whole thing is handwritten notes and transcribed texts from the zombie outbreak. It's terrifyi...more
Not really a review, originally posted here.
Me: Oh, god, Amy. I can already tell that you'll have to read the book I just started. I can TELL.
Me: On second thought...wait, you like books that make you cry, right?
Amy: I LOVE books that make me cry. That's in the book? That gave me chills!
Me: YES! The whole thing is handwritten notes and transcribed texts from the zombie outbreak. It's terrifyi...more
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This is what PostSecret will look like after the zombie apocalypse. Like PostSecret, it's a collection of (mostly) handwritten notes, supposedly collected by an anonymous survivor. Most of the notes were written after the worst case scenario had already happened, and there's little of the build up to the outbreak. This is a very bleak apocalypse, but what do you expect from zombies?
It seems that the notes were written as part of a collective project, Lost Zombies, which I haven't really looked a...more
It seems that the notes were written as part of a collective project, Lost Zombies, which I haven't really looked a...more
I know. I know. The zombie thing is over done. We should all move on. I'm not a zombie person either. I don't watch the Walking Dead, I haven't really played the vast amount of zombie video games, so maybe I just really enjoyed this because I haven't been beaten down by an influx of zombie media. But, in my opinion, this book is extraordinarily good.
Written entirely in fragmented notes that have been left around California post zombie invasion, this novel manages to piece together a coherent sto...more
Written entirely in fragmented notes that have been left around California post zombie invasion, this novel manages to piece together a coherent sto...more
"(Dead Inside, Do Not Enter) is part of an ongoing, collaborative, experimental storytelling project called Lost Zombies. Our goal is to create a fictional world where zombies exist and document that world in a range of media, including print and film. Portions of the contents of this book were created by people from around the globe."
Dead Inside, Do Not Enter is a collection of cards, letters, flyers, and scraps that detail the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Dead Inside is arranged in the sa...more
Dead Inside, Do Not Enter is a collection of cards, letters, flyers, and scraps that detail the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Dead Inside is arranged in the sa...more
Dead Inside:Do Not Enter is (accurately) described as a cross between World War Z and PostSecret. It is one of the most wonderfully bleak books that I've read recently.
It's all made up of "found" objects and momentos. Photographs, notes, messages, all discovered in a backpack by an anonymous survivor.
Some of the items were never meant for posterity - bits of silent conversation on paper carried on when the dead were nearby. Some are clearly confessions, memories, hurried memoirs scrawled out to...more
It's all made up of "found" objects and momentos. Photographs, notes, messages, all discovered in a backpack by an anonymous survivor.
Some of the items were never meant for posterity - bits of silent conversation on paper carried on when the dead were nearby. Some are clearly confessions, memories, hurried memoirs scrawled out to...more
Dead Inside is a collection of random notes from general civilian survivors as a super flu pandemic goes wrong.
The book starts with a timeline explaining the events leading to the breakout, and a longer note that describes the contents that follow. It sets up the book wonderfully: without this guide, the random notes would be truly random, and they lack the obvious hints to context that the reader needs.
The first half is a combination of notes that describe the gradual devolvement of the contain...more
The book starts with a timeline explaining the events leading to the breakout, and a longer note that describes the contents that follow. It sets up the book wonderfully: without this guide, the random notes would be truly random, and they lack the obvious hints to context that the reader needs.
The first half is a combination of notes that describe the gradual devolvement of the contain...more
I've been very leery of new books in this (sub)genre (which I'm going to loosely define as in-character found documents from the zombie apocalypse[1]) since I picked up Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection: Field Notes by Dr. Robert Twombly and found that the purported "year" began in January and ended in March. I didn't intend to buy this; I was just browsing, and then I turned the page and one of the notes actually made me flinch, and I decided "okay, worth the money".
It's a very fast re...more
It's a very fast re...more
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Recently, I said some stuff about the epistolary novel being dead on arrival, which has more or less been proved true with this book. In a ba dump tss kind of way. I hedged that the epistolary novel has been hanging on in Gothic-slash-horror longer than in straight up fiction, so I get to revel in my rightness, as usual. The confirmation bias rules.
Dead Inside was crowdsourced by the folks at Lost Zombies. It seems to be a more specific kickstarter for a zombie movie,...more
Recently, I said some stuff about the epistolary novel being dead on arrival, which has more or less been proved true with this book. In a ba dump tss kind of way. I hedged that the epistolary novel has been hanging on in Gothic-slash-horror longer than in straight up fiction, so I get to revel in my rightness, as usual. The confirmation bias rules.
Dead Inside was crowdsourced by the folks at Lost Zombies. It seems to be a more specific kickstarter for a zombie movie,...more
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In a world where a flu pandemic turned into a zombie apocalypse apparently Davy Rothbart still takes the time to collect and publish Found?
Well, not exactly, but Dead Inside, takes a very similar idea. Instead of collecting true Found notes however, they gather, through a project called Lost Zombies, notes, photos, and recordings sent in from people all over the world from a future where the zombie apocalypse has occurred and destroyed most of civilization.
The notes are very true to life, very...more
Well, not exactly, but Dead Inside, takes a very similar idea. Instead of collecting true Found notes however, they gather, through a project called Lost Zombies, notes, photos, and recordings sent in from people all over the world from a future where the zombie apocalypse has occurred and destroyed most of civilization.
The notes are very true to life, very...more
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Dead Inside: Do Not Enter: Notes from the Zombie Apocalypse isn't a novel, but rather a collection of notes and, occasionally, photographs.
The book begins with a timeline that spans from February to November of some unknown year. February is when the first incidences of "the super flu" are reported. Camp St. Teresa and similar places are established, initially to care for uninsured super flu patients. Later, these camps become quarantines. By November, the super flu has mutated. A few patients a...more
The book begins with a timeline that spans from February to November of some unknown year. February is when the first incidences of "the super flu" are reported. Camp St. Teresa and similar places are established, initially to care for uninsured super flu patients. Later, these camps become quarantines. By November, the super flu has mutated. A few patients a...more
The idea behind this book is really interesting. It is a collaborative effort that compiles a lot of notes, messages and a few photos that provide glimpses into a world that has become overrun with zombies. A timeline at the beginning lays out the background and history of the zombie plague.
The primary drawback of the book is the nagging sense that several of the notes would not have really been written. Some seem too staged to feel real, and there is a weird tendency for some papers to be a lit...more
The primary drawback of the book is the nagging sense that several of the notes would not have really been written. Some seem too staged to feel real, and there is a weird tendency for some papers to be a lit...more
The blurb for Do Not Enter compares it to Max Brooks' World War Z, but other than the fact that these are both (more or less) epistolary stories and concern zombies, they really have very little in common and it seems like a poor comparison to make because it seems inevitable that Do Not Enter can only come off the loser in that relationship.
Do Not Enter is a mixed media project and has more in common with the other work referenced in the blurb, PostSecret. The premise is that a flu pandemic mu...more
Do Not Enter is a mixed media project and has more in common with the other work referenced in the blurb, PostSecret. The premise is that a flu pandemic mu...more
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Clever idea, although the idea of a zombie social media site is a little creepy. I'll have to check it out and see what that's all about.
The book is a little difficult to read as an ebook. Things printed sideways can't be easily flipped to read as the tablet automatically corrects the alignment. Some things were a little small. Nothing major - just a tad annoying and I would have expected more thought would have been given to an ebook when it's related to an internet group.
The two things that ju...more
The book is a little difficult to read as an ebook. Things printed sideways can't be easily flipped to read as the tablet automatically corrects the alignment. Some things were a little small. Nothing major - just a tad annoying and I would have expected more thought would have been given to an ebook when it's related to an internet group.
The two things that ju...more
The "found" notes, signs, and letters is an interesting way to tell a zombie story, but I found myself wishing it was a companion volume to a novel, as I wanted to know more of the story and get to know characters I could connect with, etc. Without that, eventually the notes all start to look and sound the same, and by the end I was just skimming, wishing there was more substance. I'd particularly like to know more from the person who wrote the initial notes, for example. Still, it was interesti...more
I sat down, meaning to read a few pages of this before dinner. I ended up reading the entire book in one sitting (and hungry).
Some of the quotes were deliciously creepy ("they weren't bitten", "KEEP QUIET THEY'RE HERE"), some sort of funny and sort of horrifying ("things got bad / 4 / 5") and some made me burst out laughing ("I BLAME ALL OF THIS ON COMIC SANS", "Godforsaken Barstow").
The scrapbooked text message conversation between Brian and his brother was illuminating... but who takes the ti...more
Some of the quotes were deliciously creepy ("they weren't bitten", "KEEP QUIET THEY'RE HERE"), some sort of funny and sort of horrifying ("things got bad / 4 / 5") and some made me burst out laughing ("I BLAME ALL OF THIS ON COMIC SANS", "Godforsaken Barstow").
The scrapbooked text message conversation between Brian and his brother was illuminating... but who takes the ti...more
Feb 07, 2012
Gabi
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Shelves:
zombies,
apocalypse,
california,
dystopian,
graphic-novel,
horror,
print,
read-not-owned,
suspense
Dead Inside: Do Not Enter is the graphic novel compilation from the online zombie community Lost Zombies. It provides a general timeline in the front of the book to set up the structure of the world where zombies exist, cures have failed, and they're coming for the survivors. Which is pretty much the structure of a zombie-future in general. The pages are comprised of notes, signs, photos, and forms from survivors. It's well done and creepy/haunting enough to satisfy most zombie fans and especial...more
I read Dead Inside on cold Friday evening, tucked up in bed with a warm blanket, during the middle of October. I should’ve probably waited until nearer Halloween to start reading, but I just couldn’t wait. The book begins with a timeline explaining to us how the zombie apocalypse began - with a super flu that spread throughout the world. The book is made up of scraps of paper and photographs that a survivor collected throughout the epidemic.
After I had finished reading Dead Inside I finally unde...more
After I had finished reading Dead Inside I finally unde...more
It's a really interesting idea, but it feels more like a coffee table book than anything else--because everything is pretty much anonymous, it can't tell more than a general story, and because all the notes are very short, it can't go into very much depth. It doesn't do anything particularly new in terms of thinking about a zombie attack and how people react to it--people are scared, people are dying, people are violent, and that's pretty much all we've got. It feels more like an introduction to...more
Nov 25, 2011
Mike
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Shelves:
black-comedy,
fast-paced,
graphic-novel,
horror,
twisted,
violence,
zombies,
visually-strong
It's definitely very cool the way in which this graphic novel uses multiple sources, and narrators, to describe the zombie apocalypse, but it's kind of a been-there-done-that storyline. Plus, I never felt empathy or a human connection to anything in the book. It was just ho-hum, as I paged through the creative images. At the end, there's a URL that people can submit their images to the zombie project- this sounds exciting and I'm very much looking forward to the final version.
I picked this book up as it was sitting in the bin at my library in the Young Adult section where they put books that won't fit on the shelves. The cover is what pulled me in and when I got home I started to flip through the pages. It made me think of what would I write in the days things started to get crazy and it made me wonder about those who had wrote these notes (even if I know they are not real).
I say pick this up if you are a fan of Zombies and give it a read.
I say pick this up if you are a fan of Zombies and give it a read.
This type of storytelling lends itself very well to the "Zombapocalypse" genre. Perhaps it's that artist in me, but I thoroughly enjoyed the interdisciplinary style of this book. It consists essentially of notes, letter, and pictures provided by a handful of people dealing with the zombie plague (and the aftermath). Because many of us read or watch movies as a form of escape, this "realist" style further enforces the "willing suspension of disbelief" more so than a traditional novel.
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I really don't know where to start with this book, I loved every page and found myself giggling at most. In the summary it mentions it's a combination of "Post Secrets" and "World War Z", I haven't read World War Z but I can easily pick out why it's like Post Secrets, rather than an actual story being told it is actually scraps of paper that have been found and collected by someone (or some people I guess) during a zombie apocalypse. It's amazing how much detail and knowledge you get from pages...more
This book...this books makes me sad, and yet very appreciative of the authors. I just re-read it again this week. A well done, imaginative compilation of "what if" notes and pictures. It breaks my heart, but it also draws me back from time to time to re-experience the feelings it evokes, and make me wonder, yet again, would I be strong enough to survive?
I've stumbled upon a few similar ideas for zombie books with the "found artifacts" style of piecing together a narrative. I dig it and it was entertaining, but it was also very brief for something of that nature. I read the entire thing in under an hour, I feel like there needed to be drastically more bulk to the book, but that's just me.
I would've enjoyed this a bit more if I had read a physical copy - in the electronic edition, many of the notes are turned sideways, and if you have a device that automatically changes orientation (or can't change it at all,) it is really difficult to read those. Other than the formatting complaint, it is well done, and fairly creepy.
The description of "post secrets meets world war z" is pretty accurate. I enjoyed the read, but found it didn't really add anything to my already extensive zombie collection other than some nice (er... scary) imagery.
I'm not sure if it's just that I've read enough zombie stuff that I'm now to the point where I'm not impressed unless it's exceptional or what. I think maybe it was the fact that about a third of the pages were pretty much re-iterations of the one liner "we're all dead," the the wo...more
I'm not sure if it's just that I've read enough zombie stuff that I'm now to the point where I'm not impressed unless it's exceptional or what. I think maybe it was the fact that about a third of the pages were pretty much re-iterations of the one liner "we're all dead," the the wo...more
This was very different than any book I've read. It consisted of notes, confessions, pleas, short stories and just the terror and insanity that would ensue if a zombie invasion were to happen. Written on scraps of paper, to do notes, old cards etc., I wasn't turned off by the fact that it wasn't composed like a regular book. It made it unique. It was, a little short.
It's a cute idea but in the end, it falls flat. So many of the "notes" seem forced. I could never lose myself in the story, because it didn't really take us anywhere. We just circled around and around in different views of watching zombies take over the world.
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“Then you wake up in Barstow California. Another dissociative fugue. It's like time traveling. It's late November now. What ever happened at teresa is a mystery to you. In Godforsaken Barstow, where the golden state shits itself into the desert, people are eatting each other. Has it always been this way?”
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