book discussion
topic: Prerequisite?
Just wondering, should Zombie Survival Guide be read before reading this book, or does it not matter?
Yes, read ZSG first, as WWZ is slightly (and cleverly) meta-referential.ZSG's historical accounts also prefaces WWZ's stories.
Should be okay, but I myself read ZSG first, and would not have it any other way. There's more fun reading WWZ with the illusion that it's a continuation of ZSG.
I'd been looking forward to it, but ZSG was a disappointment after reading WWZ. I wish I had done the other way around, or had just skipped ZSG altogether. WWZ is plenty good enough to stand on its own.
I also read them in this order and was a little bored by the Survival Guide, since it mostly covered material that had been covered in World War Z. If I had it to do again, I would read the Survivial Guide first, but I would also say that you could skip it altogether.



