Thursday, September 5, 2013

World War Z by Max Brooks

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.

3 comments:

  1. This book's style makes it seem so real. The raw emotion and the "human factor" the author is able to convay makes it truly incredible. With the entire book set as case file and interviews it makes it one my favorite books and most definitely my favorite zombie novel.

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  2. why is it your favorite? why do you like it more than the others

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  3. Hi, Noah- This sounds interesting, even though I'm not a huge zombie fan; I like the idea of its being written like case files. Are there any themes or lessons that the novel conveyed to you?

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