- Who wouldn’t love to read a book about a good zombie war?
- It’s gotten high praise from a friend.
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austen
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (YA)
Summary from GoodReads:
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.
My Review:
Well, now I know what we should do to prevent a zombie war from happening.
This was an.. unexpected type of story. I’d heard from a friend that this book was fun to read, but I think I was thinking of it more along the lines of a Pride and Prejudice and Zombies type of book, a kind of tongue-in-cheek war novel. What I got was along the lines of.. a documentary, with fake interviews that felt real, a scenario that was both fascinating and filled with horror, and a story that just kept gaining momentum.
Max Brooks writes World War Z without it seeming full of gimmicks and, while reading through some of the reviews on the book, I noticed that there were a few comments about how all of the interviews sounded the same. In a way, they were – at the beginning of the book the narrator speaks to how he’s writing the book with the emotions that his employer won’t allow in their report. He’s documenting, editing and compiling on his own and the end result is a product that, ultimately, is written by one man and influenced by those he interviewed. Was this meant to be a serious piece of news? Not at all. But it was close enough to give the illusion of that, and that’s what I really enjoyed about the book.
Fantastic read – highly recommended for those who enjoy war stories and are looking for something just a bit different.
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