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

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.

WWZ Doesn't FTW!

[anonymous]

I really, really wanted to like this book. I love zombies, and I like Brooks's SURVIVAL GUIDE, but this one didn't work for me. During most of the read, I was bored and / or annoyed. Plffft

[ext_246168]

Glad you enjoyed it! And yes, the people were the real monsters, but I've come to realize that in many stories, the "monsters" aren't always monstrous. We are.

World War Z

[anonymous]

Great post! I didn't know that they were making a movie out of this...how cool! I'll be curious to see how it turns ok...

But I agree with you in the way that you characterized the zombies..I want them to be slow, creepily dumb, and only functioning on their primitive need (hunger). However, I did like that Brooks put more depth in their moaning -- in reference that their sound was what attracted other zombies (cool war call).

I also liked you how you mentioned that anyone can become a threat. For instance, there was the one scene were one of the kids used pillow sheets to escape from his window, and ended up in that old man's house (the old man supposedly committed suicide). How creepy was that when the old, old man came crawling in through the other room to kill the child?!

Overall, I thought it was a great read, and I enjoyed it...however, like John, I think I'm going to stick with Books of Blood haha! (I would recommend it to others though).

--Stephanie

[tmwriter70]

I don't see how this book can be done justice when the movie is made. The book was way too sweeping and didn't have the cinematic central character that we could follow. The only thing I could see this as, would be a documentary style. That's been done, I don't know if it's been done to death yet, but it might be close.
I also agree with you, North Korea disappearing was fantastic. You have to wonder if they all left because they knew their country wasn't going to do anything for them, or if they just decided that they'd live underground. I don't think NK could think that far ahead.
Anyway, good comments. You have much wider scope on zombies than I do.