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Well written, but not really a novel in the traditional sense. The scenario is compelling and the interview style is enjoyable at first, but it creates a lack of cohesion. The story is told in the past tense by survivors, so there's very little tension or drama. The huge number of interviewees also makes it hard to grow attached to anyone. A lot of the individual anecdotes are exciting and enjoyable as a self contained snapshot and it's fun to piece together the full picture from different persp
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An excellent piece of apocalypse fiction. Though a zombie outbreak is a fictional scenario, it's interesting seeing how many others countries and cultures would respond. Shows or movies about zombies often focus on how people in the United States would respond - few that I've seen account for cultural differences. I know that a fundamental weakness of studies in the field of psychology suffer from being biased to a specific culture.
The book is a compendium of accounts of survivors from around t ...more
The book is a compendium of accounts of survivors from around t ...more
A stellar and eerie, unconventional story of humanity facing a zombie apocalypse. I would recommend the audiobook read by the author and many celebrities that portray the story/conversations in a way that harken back to old radio teleplay. The audiobook gave me chills and emotional twinges as I listened to the separate first hand tales of a world decimated and regrouping against zombies. Like any good story of zombies it was more about the human beings and how they floundered and suffered throug
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