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: The No. 1 Zombie Book
Summary: 5 Stars
To me this is the book to have if you have no other zombie book - I like it more than any other book and have actually read it more than twice - which is a first for me! There is so much detail and knoweldge in this book, the story is so tied in to reality that you could just believed that this has all really happened. The ideas are so scarey and so real that its the sort of book you could discuss indefinately.
BEST BOOK - BUY IT NOW!
Book Review: Max Brooks has written the best book of the Zombie genre - hands down
Summary: 5 Stars
Read this straight away - Don't read the survival guide first (if at all).
Max Brooks has written the best book of the Zombie genre - hands down.
It is told in a collection of personal stories that as a whole give a good view of the Zombie war or World War Z. Nearly all the stories are tense and the others hold different horrors. Max has developed all characters well and given them strong supporting backgrounds - he also explores the human factor of the survivors and brings many interesting psychological effects of this World Armageddon.
It is a stong point that the story is told from many countries and here Max has done his research, bringing out national characters, the Israelies enter into a voluntary quaranteen and close their borders, South Africa brings out a survival plan based on the horrors of Apartheid, the zombie outbreak is helped by black market body part sales and human trafficking, the infected running from developing countries escape into the underbelly of the Western Cities where the unwanted and unnamed live. So it is not only about our war against zombies, it is also about our contemporary world with the Zombies as an instigator of our collapse.
On another level it explores the Global effect of Romero's Zombie movies, what happens everywhere else?
I really enjoyed reading this book, it was tense, gripping and even made me think a little. On the whole probably the best horror novel I have read. I wish I hadn't bothered with the survival guide however, I felt I had to read it first but World War Z stands alone and nothing in the survival guide is needed to read WWZ. After reading both I'd recommend skipping the survival guide entirely.
But read this one, they are already making the movie and the book is brilliant.