World War Z - just brilliant
February 22nd, 2008
“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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