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: Fantastic Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is without a doubt the most "intelligently written" zombie book to date. The level of detail Max put into each and every aspect takes you directly into the middle of the apocalypse. The worst part about the book is that it ended entirely too quickly for my liking....I WANTED MORE!!!Book Review: Vastly Superior to King's Cell: A Novel
Summary: 4 Stars
1st entry: Just began reading it a couple days ago and cannot put book down. This is essential reading for anyone hoping to survive a natural or man-made disaster of Biblical proportions (i.e. Hurricane Katrina comes to mind, and perhaps, the next flu pandemic). Work, cooking, exercise keep getting in the way of reading this book. This is an oral history of a future world war between humans and zombies. The undead are infectious! Its like some form of viral rabies pandemic. The zombie pandemic can be traced back to "Patient Zero", a child whose father may or may not have been bitten and disappeared during a dive into the submerged ruins of the Three Gorges Dam in China. Each chapter corresponds to a time frame pertaining to before, during and after the pandemic--referred to as World War Z because the only viable response to the pandemic was to "eliminate" the infected (i.e. the zombies). This is not the first pandemic zombie work to come out this year. So far so good--and a vastly superior work relative to Stephen King's zombie story Cell: A Novel (although King's novel may have some more interesting literary goodies like allusions to genocide and evolution I have yet to mull over). Book Review: Smart. Way creepy. Unforgettable.
Summary: 5 Stars
Max Brooks has taken the zombie-horror genre and raised it to a very intellectual level. The situations and events in WWZ are very very well thought out. The actions and reactions of individuals and nations make total sense and it is that believability that makes this book so good. What Max tells us about the zombie war is as important as what he doesn't tell us. He gets our imaginations going which makes things extra creepy. This book was everything I hoped for. Bravo Max.Book Review: Gritty and bleak.
Summary: 5 Stars
An excellent vision of an apocalyptic present. The author, Max Brooks, writes the book under the fiction that he's an investigator for the UN interviewing survivors of a war between humanity and the living dead! Interviewees range from various military personnel to doctors, politicos, and citizens from all corners of the Earth. The survivor's stories are often bleak but sometimes inspiring as they map out the story of their victory over the zombies.Book Review: Very good, but not perfect...
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a very good book. I love the concept, and I am not ashamed (well, ok, I'm a LITTLE ashamed) to admit that I, a twenty-year-old man, was kept awake at night by both The Zombie Survival Guide's "Outbreaks" section and much of this book's tales from survivors, nervously glancing out the window from time to time or pausing to listen for a distinctive moan. Unfortunately, however, I feel this book does not quite live up to its predecessor, The Zombie Survival Guide. The Guide is one of my all-time favorite books, and a major part of its clever appeal is the way in which it is presented: serious, earnest, and with almost no sense of "tongue-in-cheek" zanyness that would have screamed to readers, "GET IT? GET IT? IT'S NOT REAL!" The Guide was presented as a stern, no-nonsense instructional on how to survive an undead attack. This book is too presenting in a mostly straight-faced manner. Really, the only sections I felt were a little silly were the Grover Carlson and T. Sean Collins "interviews". They both seemed more like the author's view of the Bush Administration's policy-making and overblown charicatures of current celebrities, respectively. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot wrong with both of those factions of America, but it just seems out of place in this book. I can almost hear the author saying "Oh-ho-HO, they got THEIR comuppance!" It really distracted me from the overall feel of the book. Other than these two grating sections, I think that Max Brooks has created a truly believable world in which humanity was nearly wiped out by zombies, and I still look forward to any possible Zombie books that Mr. Brooks may pen.