World War Z - just brilliant
“They’re coming to get you, Barbara”
With these haunting words George Romero introduced to the world the pop cultural interpretation of zombies. Following the harrowing night of a small group of survivors hiding out in a farm house the influential Night of the Living Dead offers a glimpse of the horror of a zombie outbreak, World War Z by Max Brooks takes us the rest of the way.
I just finished reading World War Z and I just couldn’t put it down. After reading I am Legend (one of Romero’s influences) I was all ready to revisit the apocalyptic world, what I got was a thought provoking, scary and stunning book dealing with the ‘what if’ scenario of a zombie plague.
Brooks has really researched his stuff drawing from pandemic scenarios and what I imagine to be actually war strategy. What I expected to be a light funny book turned out to be an extremely well thought out fictional memoir of a terrible war fought by the world.
The book is set after the world’s fight back from a plague of zombies that spread around the world like a virus taking the human race to the brink of extinction. It is the collected interviews of various people around the world and their unique perspectives on the war.
There’s also an audio book that features the voices of Mark Hamill, Alan Alda, Henry Rollins, Rob Reiner, and Carl Reiner.
The best thing is that apparently they are making a movie!!! Which if handled well could be awesome and terrifying.
In the meantime it is nice to know that Bush is taking the zombie threat seriously:
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Wow, that video was amazing. I am not usually one for making fun of the president, but this was pretty good.
I love that video, and I know I want to read that book.
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Ookami Snow - I guess at least in the video they could have done that with anyone giving a press conference so it’s not really picking on him too bad - he’s not my leader so I try not to throw too many stones!! But man o man I laughed at that.
MC - I think you’ll really enjoy WWZ - actually from what I’ve heard so far the audiobook is pretty cool too.
Brilliant, indeed! I laughed so hard throughout the whole video… Thank you for posting it. Now I’ll go find the book on Amazon…
LOL Tanya that’s great although I warn you the book isn’t quite as funny as it takes the zombie threat seriously and quite deadpan - you may want the ‘how to survive a zombie uprising’ by the same author.
I appreciate the critque of the book I do think I will grab it this week and dive right in but I must say that the video had me rolling in the floor (LMAO) I am not sure if you did that video or not but it is pretty well put together and I expecially like the point where GeorgeW was pondering the questions and making faces. That was so funny…
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Cheers Nick and welcome! Let me know what you think of this as I really enjoyed it and I don’t know anyone who’s read it!
Oh the video certainly wasn’t me, just found it on youTube