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Christine
Oct 05, 2019 rated it it was amazing
One of my all-time favorite books.
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Rebekah
Aug 25, 2013 rated it liked it
Shelves: genre-fantasy, genre-book-club, genre-science-fiction, genre-war, genre-science-fiction-dystopia, genre-horror, genre-science-fiction-fantasy, genre-apocalyptic-post-apocalyptic, genre-science-fiction-apocalyptic, genre-horror-zombies
This is not so much a zombie book or a horror book, but rather a commentary on human nature during trying times. Many of the problems addressed in the book are not caused by the zombies, but by our current military-industrial complex and ongoing political conflicts. So...the real monsters in this book turn out not to be the zombies...but...wait for it...the humans! (GASP!) (I know, this is hard-core literary analysis here, huh?)

The writing format is unique, it is written very realistically like ...more
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Jenifer
May 13, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: thriller, sci-fi
I was so looking forward to reading this book! The premise (a recounting of a world wide zombie attack) sounded fun and so interesting. Unfortunately for me, the book just seemed to drag on and on. Max Brooks wrote the novel in epistolary form. Each chapter was written in the form of an interview of various participants/survivors of the zombie war. The book started out interesting but then seemed to go on forever and with a different narrator every few pages it became quite disjointed for me. Th ...more
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Rachel N.
Mar 01, 2013 rated it liked it
Not exactly what I was expecting. The book is really like a series of short stories instead of one unified narrative. It's presented as a series of interviews a UN investigator is doing into the Zombie War. The book covers the beginning of the zombie outbreak through to the end of the war though there are still zombies in certain areas. I liked the detail given to the whole war and believability the author gave to the story. I didn't like the constantly shifting between people. I wanted to know ...more
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T.ScottReviews
Feb 14, 2019 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 5could-not-finish, rating-0-star-cnf
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Jenna
Dec 31, 2010 rated it liked it
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Amy W
Apr 06, 2011 rated it really liked it
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Amy
Apr 23, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Jan 01, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Kevin
Mar 03, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: u-s-fiction, 2013
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Coqueline
Jan 07, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Feb 19, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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