World War Z by Max Brooks
Book Title: World War Z
Author: Max Brooks
Genre: Fiction
My Grade: A-
# of Pages: 342
Summary: We survived the zombie apocalupse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the plague years.
My Thoughts: Before you immediately discard this book because it's about zombies, hear me out. I'm not big into the zombie phenomenon so I was a little unsure about starting the book. I am big into dystopian novels and some dystopian movies, there's something fascinating about them. Certain ones hold messages that if we don't change our ways, bad things will happen, others are just plain fun. World War Z falls into the latter category.
There's a realistic tone that hangs over the whole novel and that's what really creeped me out a lot of the time. I would read a certain passage and find myself looking up to make sure a door was shut or wondering what that sound was. The creepiest part for me was every time they started describing the zombies in the water... I'm shuddering just thinking about it.
Brooks presents the story in a unique style, through multiple voices. Sometimes one character just speaking one time, other times returning to someone more than once to continue their story. In that form the book was a little slow to start, especially trying to follow the same story from different perspectives. But after a short while you start getting into a flow and the story begins to go along at a quicker pace and you find yourself caught up in this zombie war. Brooks also has a very interesting way of telling the story primarily through dialogue because each section is basically an interview with a person. And that's the other thing I found fascinating, every person, no matter how briefly we see them for seems fully developed. I have a feeling that if you ask Max Brooks some random thing about a random character he could probably end up telling you their whole life story.
Basically this is a very fun, unique and chilling read. Don't think of it solely as a zombie novel because that may turn you off from reading it. Think of it as a dystopian novel with a zombie twist to it. Mind you, I may not be the best critic about a zombie book since I'm not really into that whole zombie-craze, but I found it to be a unique take on the whole thing. We get to see the beginning, the middle, and the end. If you're a zombie "expert" though, read this and I would love to hear your take on it. Perhaps you'll think it's absolute crap. Who knows. At least I enjoyed it and in the end, I'm all that really matters... me and the zombies, because they're going to get us in the end.
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Author: Max Brooks
Genre: Fiction
My Grade: A-
# of Pages: 342
Summary: We survived the zombie apocalupse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the plague years.
My Thoughts: Before you immediately discard this book because it's about zombies, hear me out. I'm not big into the zombie phenomenon so I was a little unsure about starting the book. I am big into dystopian novels and some dystopian movies, there's something fascinating about them. Certain ones hold messages that if we don't change our ways, bad things will happen, others are just plain fun. World War Z falls into the latter category.
There's a realistic tone that hangs over the whole novel and that's what really creeped me out a lot of the time. I would read a certain passage and find myself looking up to make sure a door was shut or wondering what that sound was. The creepiest part for me was every time they started describing the zombies in the water... I'm shuddering just thinking about it.
Brooks presents the story in a unique style, through multiple voices. Sometimes one character just speaking one time, other times returning to someone more than once to continue their story. In that form the book was a little slow to start, especially trying to follow the same story from different perspectives. But after a short while you start getting into a flow and the story begins to go along at a quicker pace and you find yourself caught up in this zombie war. Brooks also has a very interesting way of telling the story primarily through dialogue because each section is basically an interview with a person. And that's the other thing I found fascinating, every person, no matter how briefly we see them for seems fully developed. I have a feeling that if you ask Max Brooks some random thing about a random character he could probably end up telling you their whole life story.
Basically this is a very fun, unique and chilling read. Don't think of it solely as a zombie novel because that may turn you off from reading it. Think of it as a dystopian novel with a zombie twist to it. Mind you, I may not be the best critic about a zombie book since I'm not really into that whole zombie-craze, but I found it to be a unique take on the whole thing. We get to see the beginning, the middle, and the end. If you're a zombie "expert" though, read this and I would love to hear your take on it. Perhaps you'll think it's absolute crap. Who knows. At least I enjoyed it and in the end, I'm all that really matters... me and the zombies, because they're going to get us in the end.
Next Book: A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer • review
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