World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Book Review: World war Z
Summary: 5 Stars
'World War Z', like Brooks 'Zombie Survival Guide', draws you in until your actually start to live the story. It is written in an interview format, where various people recount their experiences during the zombie war, but half way through you really start to live the story and imagine it could be real. The level of detail Brooks adds to this story is staggering and really adds to the overall reality in the book. It is extremely easy to read and looks at all aspects of life around a zombie outbreak, army response and mutiny, new society development, government plans to escape and then fight back, living on water, eradicating the zombies in water, how civilians fought back, dealing with being stranded in a zombie infested area etc etc the list goes on and is exhaustive. If you like zombie books and movies and if you enjoyed 'The Zombie Survival Guide' (which I kind of recommend you read first) then this is the very book for you. Highly recommended.Book Review: World War Z
Summary: 5 Stars
'World War Z', like Brooks 'Zombie Survival Guide', draws you in until your actually start to live the story. It is written in an interview format, where various people recount their experiences during the zombie war, but half way through you really start to live the story and imagine it could be real. The level of detail Brooks adds to this story is staggering and really adds to the overall reality in the book. It is extremely easy to read and looks at all aspects of life around a zombie outbreak, army response and mutiny, new society development, government plans to escape and then fight back, living on water, eradicating the zombies in water, how civilians fought back, dealing with being stranded in a zombie infested area etc etc the list goes on and is exhaustive. If you like zombie books and movies and if you enjoyed 'The Zombie Survival Guide' (which I kind of recommend you read first) then this is the very book for you. Highly recommended.Book Review: World War Z ......
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought on whim.... loved it.. not a typical zombie story. very clever. If this was gonna happen this is how it would happenBook Review: Moving...
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this in tandem with Niall Ferguson's 'The War of the World' last year on holiday. I'd generally read the zombie book in the morning and the non fiction account of war in the 20th century in the afternoon. The parallels between the fictional account of a zombie holocaust and the actual cruelty and destruction wrought by our own fair hands were quite sobering!
World War Z works because it concentrates on the actions and reactions of humans forced into such a horrific situation. Tales such as the blind chinese man and the almost 'urban myth' like story of a radio operator who talks in a crashed pilot linger long in the memory.
It does help if you are a fan of the living dead but this is a particularly intelligent take on the genre, nonetheless.
I just hope it doesn't make Romero's 'Diary of the Dead' pale into insignificance once I get around to watching that.
Book Review: An interesting addition to the Zombie genre
Summary: 4 Stars
Max Brooks (son of Mel, incidentally) is apparently something of a zombie obsessive and it shows in this book.
Going for maximum authenticity (if such a thing is possible in a zombie novel), Brooks tells the tale of a zombie uprising that nearly consumed the whole earth, through a collection of fictionalised interviews with survivors.
It's an arresting idea that contains frighteningly plausible accounts of the outbreak, spread and response to the threat, through the believability of it's characters and numerous canny references to real phenomena (Reality TV / racism / caste systems / terrorism / xenophobia are all aluded to). In some ways, it reminded me of Carl Sagan's Contact; a high-concept, sci-fi story told with such utter conviction that it's impossible not to find it interesting.
I'm no horror fan myself but I have a strange love of zombie fiction and this is - to date - the best zombie novel I have read. It kicks Monster Island's behind...