World War Z

[narfnitsirk]

I’ve had a zombie-riffic couple of weeks. As of late I’ve read World War Z, Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry, The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell, and The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

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Zombieland

[anonymous]

It's nice to see such a positive response on this take. I enjoyed the many different takes that Max Brooks has with each of the interviews. But it also bothered me that the interviews were just that interviews. I was wanting to know more about the characters be interviewed. Colonel Christine Eliopolis is one of the most realistic interviews in the book, and I might add a creepy one. But there is an end to it. We here her story about what happened. But many of the interviews seemed to stop somewhere in the middle and your not sure of what the point is. And Arthur Sinclair junior is also realistic and complete. But then you have Bohdan Taras Kondratiuk that tells about Kiev's destruction, in a manner. But there doesn't seem to be a real conclusion, only the report of the gassing. Which seems to be the point. But then Bohdan goes off in a different direction about Kiev. I know that history is sometimes like this and to make the stories interesting historians put there take on it to complete the story or make it realistic. This book is just interviews that paint a very abstract and broken painting of a world disaster. I haven't figured out if I like the history stories (which are partially made up.) or the interviews which are reality from many points of view. Still working on that one.

Re: Zombieland

[narfnitsirk]

I think these flashes of what the zombie war was like are perfect. If you want stories that never end, then I point you enthusiastically to the hella-depressing "Walking Dead" graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman. He's complained that every zombie movie ends, and he wants to explore what happens after the end. He has, and it isn't pretty.