I finished a book! That didn't happen for some time...
I actually have good stack I want to read, but I haven't taken the time lately...
Anyway this one I finished.
I 1st heard of Max Brooks when I read an interview of his dad, Mel Brooks, on AICN.
I felt quite like reading a zombie story, so I went ahead and bought both The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z.
I have to say I wasn't really impressed with the first one. Sure, it is wittily written, it is entertaining, but for me it was the concept that actually failed. As a guide, it needed to be a sort of catalog of things and I got a bit bored with it, I didn't finish it (I read 3/4 of it still and stopped during the description of various attacks through time). It still developped some interesting ideas. It's more something like each part was good, but it didn't work for me as a whole.
So I still got onto World War Z. And that's another beast completely. So it starts from the hypothesis that a major zombie outbreak broke out and started the 3rd world war. And it's built on the testimonies of actors of it, well after the fact. So you have this sort of kaleidoscopic view of the world as it was, as it became and how it evolved after this. And it's built well engough that you know enough, but still can guess a lot.
I extrapolates on the world we live in, throws this "what if" in and I think that what it describes would really happen if the world came to an end like this...
Clandestine refugees spreading the disease...
The role of the stock market and reality TV...
USA declaring war on zombies...
North Korea disappearing...
Only a few examples of scenes whose vivid descriptions shall stay with me for a while...
I thought it was brilliant. It's very well written, with lots of details that make it feel real and it's very well structured as well which make up for an engaging read.
I heard they're trying to make a movie out of it. I'll keep an eye on that one, because there's a lot of potential for an epic film...
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