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| Original Title: | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War |
| ISBN: | 0307346609 (ISBN13: 9780307346605) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Zombies, Kwang Jing-shu, Nury Televaldi, Stanley MacDonald, Todd Wainio, Maria Zhuganova, Jesika Hendricks, Joe Muhammad |
| Literary Awards: | Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance (2014), Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2009), Lincoln Award Nominee (2012), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Long Form (2011) |
Max Brooks
Hardcover | Pages: 342 pages Rating: 4.01 | 413883 Users | 24662 Reviews
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| Title | : | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War |
| Author | : | Max Brooks |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 342 pages |
| Published | : | September 12th 2006 by Crown |
| Categories | : | Religion. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Atheism. Science. Politics |
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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, "By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?"
Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.
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update...update...To everything there is a time - a time to reap and a time to plant, a time to listen to Schoenberg and a time to listen to Lez Zeppelin, the all-girl tribute band, a time to read Marcel Proust and a time to read about zombie apocalypses. That time, for me, passed some years ago. I shouldn't've picked up this novel but I was seduced by shedloads of great reviews on this very site. Although my copy has a front-cover blurb by Simon Pegg, it's his very own great little zom-romcomThoughtful and thought-provoking. Not at all the typical zombie book, and not at all what I expected. Published in 2006, the issues and underlying plot points are as pertinent today as then. What would happen in a real zombie apocalypse? Given current politics, economics, cultural trends, and geography, I'd be willing to bet it happens closely to Brooks' vision.World War Z is structured along the lines of a documentary, a collection of remembrances about the world-wide zombie war. Divided by
Update: See end of review for movie review.I've broken my cardinal rule for reading books just before the movie comes out. This rule I've alluded to is the following - I don't read the book directly before the movie (at least 1 year before or it must be read after or just wait on the movies). The reason for this is that I want to enjoy the story through both mediums and if you read the book just before the movie, you've set yourself up to be a critic - analyzing everything and complaining about
Honestly, I didn't finish this because I lost all momentum on it after a string of interrupted lunch breaks but what I did read, I liked quite a bit.World War Z is an account of the zombie apocalypse, told by the survivors in interviews. This structure made the book very readable when people weren't trying to talk to me on my lunch break. A zombie book is an easy thing to fuck up and this one was decidedly unfucked.Max Brooks ladles out the details of the zombie apocalypse in easily digestible,
At this current moment in time my husband and I do not actually have a working will. We are the legal definition of intestate. We have not yet made any preparations for our death and we only have life insurance/house insurance because his mother organized the whole damn thing (come to mention it she is also the reason we have electricity, water and a phone line - the internet though was all us because we'd die without it.)So believe me when I say that we don't organize... anything. Except our
I just can't get on this bandwagon. The pseudo-government reports the book is written in handicap it in many ways. First, there are no protagonists to grow with, no story arc, no climax, etc. You know what's going to happen from day one--there was a world crisis involving zombies and at least some people live to tell the tale. The sure knowledge of the outcome deflates any tension and book feels flacid. The pseudo-scientific jargon is a poor imitation (my sister, a nurse, tossed aside Brooks'
Never judge a book by its cover, especially if its cover looks too good to be true - I learned that the hard way after spending money on a new copy of World War Z. The title "World War Z" was cool as heck, the cover had a decayed, vintage kind of look and it said it was about zombies, and since I was a fan of Romero's Living Dead film trilogy, I figured this could be a really exciting book.Big mistake. World War Z was mostly just ranting and rambling, a sea of unnecessary gore and a lot of
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