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Not bad, it’s just not doing what I wanted it to. Tried to shake it up to get out of my slump & am slumping harder than ever before.

Agree with the reviewers who said the journalistic Q&A style inhibits the book’s ability to connect with you — I love an apocalypse story, but especially post-pandemic, the style & story seems to fall flat.

Hoping it’ll pick up bc I have a temporary no DNF policy!!

Pretty fun

El formato del libro es recontra innovador e interesante, mas aun teniendo en cuenta que el autor lo escribio en 2006
Los detalles y la fiabilidad a lo real (salvo obviamente a los zombis) te da a entender que verdaderamente le dedico un tiempo enorme para describir a la perfección las diferentes culturas y regiones del mundo en un estado de desesperación e incertidumbre
Por ahora no me puedo quejar de nada

I'm giving up and moving this to the DNF shelf. I expected to like it because so many of my book club friends sing its praises, but for me it is too much like reading an account of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's just too close to reality now -- I don't know how Max Brooks could be so prescient! It's not a bad book, I just can't get into it because I'm too constantly seeing scary real-world parallels.

I read this because I heard it was really good on audiobook and I can see why someone would see that. It was pretty cool and the interviews were mostly interesting, but I just wasn’t really into the political and military interviews as much as I was into the recounts of someone’s survival without politics or military.

En momentos esto se está poniendo muy político y me aburre.

sharon was saved from her own mother by the person she didnt like :(

Martin Scorsese was in this????

Suddenly there’s a French character and he’s so annoying 🥖 🇫🇷

They end Cuban socialism in this book??

Switching to the audiobook version so I can get back into this story.. I don’t wanna DNF but I’ve quickly learned that this is NOT my type of writing style to read. I’m not a fan of non-fiction and this is exactly how this story reads (which I should have known based on the cover LOL) anyways….abridged version FTW!

Absolute cinema

This book is so intense

I love my life

Pretty good

Pretty good

Like a hawk tuah flame

Like a hawk tuah flame

Like a hawk tuah flame

Like a hawk tuah flame

Like a hawk tuah flame

Like a hawk tuah flame

Like a hawk tuah flame

This book is structured around a bunch of people from all over the world giving testimonials and I saw the audio book was a full cast recording so I figured I’d give it a try bc I hear those are better but these actors are Not voice actors or audio book narrators and some of this is ass :/

Did this book catch any flack for how outrageously stereotypical this israeli charter is? They even included the racism

There doesn’t seem to be a single version of this book w/o a deeply ugly cover :(

My AirPods died during both of these so not a lot of book progress from them.

Nov. 14
Distance: 4.38
Pace: 9:03 /mi
Time: 39m 38s

Nov. 21
Distance: 4.50
Pace: 8:31 /mi
Time: 38m 20s

Splits:
1. 8.23
2. 8:31
3. 8:46
4. 8:46
.5. 7.52

I LOVE how this is written

Esta tan bien hecho este libro.

Este método de escritura por relatos cortos sigue dándome algo se conflicto pero también se me hace interesante, tengo sentimientos encontrados.
Algunos relatos me gustan, se siente la tensión, pero otros es más sobre que estaba pasando antes o sus primeros encuentros, y lo siento repetitivo. Ya llevo 1/3 del libro y quisiera saber que más estaba pasando cuando ya el caso estaba hecho y no solo cuando iniciaba.