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Coming off of reading "Sleeping Giants" I was seeing a lot of comparisons of the interview format that book took to "World War Z" so I decided to give it a read. And while I liked it, I feel like those comparisons were a little off the mark. Sure they both use an interview style, but in "Sleeping Giants" you're brought back to the same characters over and over again. You get to see an evolution in the characters as well as the plot lines. "World War Z" was missing that for me. It was interesting
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I'm so glad I got around to reading this finally! It's really well done (if you like the zombie thing, of course). I don't understand why this is shelved as YA in my library - it's not particularly YA at all. Sure, there's not any explicit sex or language, but ... you could say the same for Jane Austen, and THAT isn't shelved in YA ...
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Once again I couldn't finish this before it was due. It's not that it's particularly dense, or particularly slow ... The book is set up as a series of interviews ...more
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Once again I couldn't finish this before it was due. It's not that it's particularly dense, or particularly slow ... The book is set up as a series of interviews ...more
Not bad. i just don't think this was for me. i wanted more human interaction and less military. the audiobook was wonderfully produced and I reccomend that format if you are interested in reading.
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A very thorough interpretation of how the world might react to and handle a zombie apocalypse. Clearly Brooks knows his stuff (I'm sure writing the Handbook beforehand helped him prepare for this book). It was also a great idea to approach the book through oral histories - which actually made the audiobook experience feel much more vivid). All in all, I thought it was really well done.
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All the reviews I read said that Robopocalypse ripped World War Z off... and it's true it did. This was very well done, my only complaint is that I wanted to know more some of the characters and have more details.
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Riveting. It indulged my love of History Channel-esque eye witness accounts and kept me up at night with imaginings of foul, shambling killers.
This is one of the rare times that I can say the movie was far better.
May 03, 2010
Nadine
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taeli
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Michelle
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