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World War Z was published after an important book, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, which was also highly recommended by David Sedaris. I have not read the Zombie Survival Guide yet (rest assured it's next on the list) but I did pick up some important tips from World War Z. And since I'm not into zombies, there were a lot of things I didn't know before. For example:

-The only way to kill a zombie is to destroy its brain
-Once you are bitten by a zombie, you are infected and can expect to reanimate following your death
-Zombies are not smart and cannot use tools
-Zombies want to eat you
-Zombies congregate to noise, much like sharks to blood
-Zombies freeze in the winter but reanimate upon thawing
-Zombies survive underwater, so swimming is not a good idea

And so on and so forth. I am sure the Survival Guide goes into all of these and more in great detail, so I expect to be fully prepared soon.

World War Z chronicles the advances of the military as they battled the zombies and spends a great deal of time on the psychological impact of the Zombie war. He also covers the aftermath and what happened to surviving coutries (some who very gently nuked eachother, some who became completely religious states, some who resorted to public stocks and whipping on town squares for discipline). And somewhere along the way, Brooks makes a statement about our current political and military situation. ]]>