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What better way to spend a day of eight or so hours of driving than with a zombie apocalypse audiobook?!
With so many people reading & loving this book, I really wanted to read it, but it bored me to tears. It read like the evening news which I detest. I thought it might make a good audio book. I was right, especially since it was done with a number of different readers, one for each person interviewed. Alan Alda read the part of the ex-stock trader. Excellent!
Seriously, the readers were so fantastic & made the story really pop. Brooks did an excellent job on this story, too. It wasn't just a horro ...more
Seriously, the readers were so fantastic & made the story really pop. Brooks did an excellent job on this story, too. It wasn't just a horro ...more
Ok this is a book I will admit I picked up as result of all the exposure it has received both before and after they announced the film. Dont get me wrong its a innovative book in its style and content, and that alone marks apart from all the other zombie books out there. I doubt the film will follow too closely the book - as the book, literally the entire world because the cast list. However I am glad I picked up this book and chose to read it, it has taken a tried and tested subject and present
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Slow, slow beginning that took me several attempts to really delve into the book - it seemed like there were too many disjointed memoir-ish narratives about the initial outbreak that all seemed to sound alike and drone on forever.
Once past this, however, the book really picked up and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. What I especially enjoyed were the narratives of those people in occupations that most authors of apocalyptic fiction might not have thought about - the crew of a Chin ...more
Once past this, however, the book really picked up and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. What I especially enjoyed were the narratives of those people in occupations that most authors of apocalyptic fiction might not have thought about - the crew of a Chin ...more
Really liked this book but the lack of a central character and a central story line (other than the assembler/editor of these war stories) kept me from totally connecting with it. The book is written in the style of a post-war compiled set of memoirs. That lends a lot to the authenticity but keeps you jumping around from person to person.
Very fun (errr... maybe not "fun." Maybe "disturbing" is the more appropriate word) to see the author speculate on the horrible choices countries and communiti ...more
Very fun (errr... maybe not "fun." Maybe "disturbing" is the more appropriate word) to see the author speculate on the horrible choices countries and communiti ...more
Wow! Really, really good, and not what I was expecting. Thought-provoking and terrifying at the same time.
Mar 11, 2010
Patrick
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Josef
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Alexander widrow
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Mar 18, 2012
Randy Harmelink
marked it as did-not-finish
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Andrea
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