Book Review: World War Z
May 2nd, 2008 by admin
- Max Brooks
This is a frightening book and not so much because of the zombies. It is a reporter’s account of the personal tales told to him while working for a report given to the international community after the war to retake the earth from the zombies, an event warmly dubbed, The Zombie War or as the book title holds, World War Z.
Told in vignettes, accounts from people all over the world, the book breaks down a very comprehensive account of how things started, what our major mistakes were, how we were almost eradicated as a race and how the world managed to pull their collective heads out of their respective arses and pulled themselves together.
But as with any good horror book, it is not so much the monster that is the subject of this movie that is frightening, but the realism of the world and its reactions to it. Here, Brooks presents the reader with a series of stories that range from heartwarming to disturbing; from cowardly to heroic; from sad to uplifting. Maneuvering from one narrator to the next, what one gets mostly out of this book, is how Brooks has given though to every small detail of a catastrophe like this were it to ever actually happen.
A fun, fast paced read that is broken up in small segments that are ideal for the reader that only finds themselves reading in small amounts of time. If you enjoyed The Zombie Survival Guide by the same author, this book follows right up the same alley with much more finesse and impressive craftsmanship.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Category: Fiction – Horror, Sci-fi