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Perhaps the best audio book I've ever listened to. It has a full cast of big name actors, including people like Rob Reiner, Mark Hamill, and Henry Rollins. This book is a collection of interviews that take you through the entire war. I'm don't think I would have liked it nearly as much as a paper book, but the audio book version was immensely entertaining.
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After reading Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide, I was left wondering what else he could possibly do with the genre. I thought that at best, Brooks might elaborate on some sections of his first zombie book in World War Z. I was wrong.
World War Z is another work of pure zombie genius. Brooks took the concept of what might happen in an outbreak and ran with it. The idea of this book being written at the tail end of a world-scale outbreak and including numerous interviews with survivors from all ov ...more
World War Z is another work of pure zombie genius. Brooks took the concept of what might happen in an outbreak and ran with it. The idea of this book being written at the tail end of a world-scale outbreak and including numerous interviews with survivors from all ov ...more
As the title implies; World War Z is a collection of interviews from the survivours of a world wide zombie outbreak. Often the tales of the Living Dead imply a world scale but the format of this book is an interesting way of attempting to present an overview of a world wide outbreak and the varying experiences. Unfortunately it often means you feel you are just skimming over stories and find you craving detailed narratives regarding some of the stories.
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this book was insanely captivating... even though i read the entire first 3/4 in half the time it took me to get through the last 1/4. i'm not sure why exactly, but from the other reviews i've read i'm not alone in this.
i'm not sure what i was expecting when i picked this up. for one thing, max brooks in the son of mel brooks, which doesn't necessarily indicate anything in particular, but sort of makes one expect whatever he puts out there to be funny. also, there's the fact that his other zombi ...more
i'm not sure what i was expecting when i picked this up. for one thing, max brooks in the son of mel brooks, which doesn't necessarily indicate anything in particular, but sort of makes one expect whatever he puts out there to be funny. also, there's the fact that his other zombi ...more
With so much hype about this book, I was really surprised how boring it turned out to be. The book is written as a series of reporter interviews with survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Some of them were interesting and formed very specific pictures that will probably forever be with me. I might pick the book up again like I would a short story book. However, I didn't like feeling as if I was reading a book that was going nowhere. There was no cohesion or connection between the chapters. For me,
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i started reading this book because my brother chose it for an assignment at school, and i like to make sure that he actually reads the books.
have to say that i am not a big zombie fan, (or military for that matter), but the further i got into this book, the more i liked it.
i loved that everyones story was so different, from so many different points of view. i have never been so "involved", i felt like iw as really there most of the time. right along with these confused frightened people, just ...more
have to say that i am not a big zombie fan, (or military for that matter), but the further i got into this book, the more i liked it.
i loved that everyones story was so different, from so many different points of view. i have never been so "involved", i felt like iw as really there most of the time. right along with these confused frightened people, just ...more
It looks like I am in the minority with this one. The title should have clued me in, but this was way too militaristic. Brooks has done his research, and has created detailed and imaginative scenarios, but in the end it just left me cold. I didn't care about another soldier's viewpoint, another battle with the undead. I like the stories of early survival, like the Japanese guy's, but these were few and far between. The stories became redundant and each successive input became superfluous.
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well i loved the way this book unfolds. it is told like a documentary with the zombie epidemic seen from many points of view. if they make this into a movie i hope they are true to the reality of it. if you like zombies or apocalyptic futures this book is for you. i gots to get me a zombie plan for my home.
Yes, it's about zombies, but it's interesting and well thought out. I wish it had examined the moral and philosophical problems that zombies might present more than it did, but other than that it was an enjoyable read.
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good book... rather than a continuous narrative, it's a series of stories told by people who survived the infestation, panic and war.
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AWESOME.
Sep 22, 2009
Laura
marked it as to-read
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Jul 26, 2011
Luzcasa
rated it
it was amazing
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sci-fi-fantasy,
dystopian-literature
