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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Author: Max Brooks
Genre: Zombie apocalypse
Rating: 4/5
The plague of zombies spread to every corner of Earth. The humans fought back for their lives and eventually managed to rid themselves of the most immediate threat. Ten years later a journalist meets with different people who survived the apocalypse, to hear their story.
This is World War Z.
World War Z tackles the subject of zombies by being very down to earth about it. Since the setting is after the 'apocalypse', the worst panic is over and people can talk rationally about what happened. Chapter after chapter, the book logically explains most of those questions that bug you while watching a zombie movie. The most prominent being: how would people - people all over the word - actually react if zombieism started spreading?
Brooks answers that question, both on a national and a personal level. All kinds of persons are interviewed - mostly military, but also survivors from the general population. They all have something to tell, be it the horrifyingly unsuccessful battle of Yonkers, or how a teenage computer geek noticed something was wrong when his parents stopped bringing food to his room.
World War Z is an original twist in the zombie genre. Cudos on the attempt to portray what happened all over the world - and not just in the USA (although there is a reason I chose to write 'attempt'). The biggest advantage of the book is the ever-present human factor. No matter who is interviewed, there is always a measure of humanity, and that is very, very touching. As far as I am concerned, World War Z could very well be a book written after a real zombie apocalypse.
Genre: Zombie apocalypse
Rating: 4/5
The plague of zombies spread to every corner of Earth. The humans fought back for their lives and eventually managed to rid themselves of the most immediate threat. Ten years later a journalist meets with different people who survived the apocalypse, to hear their story.
This is World War Z.
World War Z tackles the subject of zombies by being very down to earth about it. Since the setting is after the 'apocalypse', the worst panic is over and people can talk rationally about what happened. Chapter after chapter, the book logically explains most of those questions that bug you while watching a zombie movie. The most prominent being: how would people - people all over the word - actually react if zombieism started spreading?
Brooks answers that question, both on a national and a personal level. All kinds of persons are interviewed - mostly military, but also survivors from the general population. They all have something to tell, be it the horrifyingly unsuccessful battle of Yonkers, or how a teenage computer geek noticed something was wrong when his parents stopped bringing food to his room.
World War Z is an original twist in the zombie genre. Cudos on the attempt to portray what happened all over the world - and not just in the USA (although there is a reason I chose to write 'attempt'). The biggest advantage of the book is the ever-present human factor. No matter who is interviewed, there is always a measure of humanity, and that is very, very touching. As far as I am concerned, World War Z could very well be a book written after a real zombie apocalypse.
