World War Z by Max Brooks (2007, Paperback, Reprint)

my son wanted to read this book so badly and hasnt set it down. he claims he watches the window when he reads it at nite to make sure he safe. If zombies were real we would all need this book.

One of the best books I've read in months. It had my full attention all the way to the end and I am reading it for the second time at the moment. Nicely written, superb tension, great "what if" scenario.

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I love the way that Max Brooks put this together. It's a great read! I also purchased the audio book of this one and the audio book is phenomenal! Excellent for all Zombie fans!!

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Zombies are among us. In a series of journalistic-style interviews and monologues, Max Brooks tracks the institutional and geopolitical missteps that led to the collapse of civilization and follows the intrepid survivors as they tell the story of fighting their way back against a zombie horde of 200 million. Alan Alda, Carl Reiner, Mark Hamill, and a host of others lend their considerable vocal talents to give these interviews a solid realism. China secretly developed a deadly virus. Israel closed its borders. Cuba plotted. And in the United States the Battle of Yonkers was a devastating rout for the U.S. Army. It's all very much in the grand tradition of War of the Worlds.

Editorial Reviews:

From Publishers Weekly. Brooks, the author of the determinedly straight-faced parody The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), returns in all seriousness to the zombie theme for his second outing, a future history in the style of Theodore Judson's Fitzpatrick's War. Brooks tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts "as told to the author" by various characters around the world. A Chinese doctor encounters one of the earliest zombie cases at a time when the Chinese government is ruthlessly suppressing any information about the outbreak that will soon spread across the globe. The tale then follows the outbreak via testimony of smugglers, intelligence officials, military personnel and many others who struggle to defeat the zombie menace. Despite its implausible premise and choppy delivery, the novel is surprisingly hard to put down. The subtle, and not so subtle, jabs at various contemporary politicians and policies are an added bonus. (Sept.)

Product Details:

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (October 16, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307346617
ISBN-13: 978-0307346612
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces

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Excellent read, explores other contries trials and tribulations with the zombie menace. TOP NOTCH A

World war z is written as the author interviewing the survivors of the zombie war. Really unique and fresh. Decided to buy it cause i heard through word of mouth that it was a must read.

Excellent book. Brooks almost had me convinced that we went through a worldwide pandemic/epidemic zombie outbreak and I somehow missed it.

I read it in three days, which says alot for a Medical student! Very intertaining. Brooks is a zombie genius!

World War Z is of course the sequel to the Zombie Survival Guide which is a great work, but World War Z is absolutely one of the best books I have ever read. You might know that the book is the "oral history of the zombie war" and it is presented as a documentary of the accounts of the survivors of the zombie apocalypse. I am fan of any kind of post-apocalyptic fiction, and this is some of the best of it. Every page is a mind blowing thoroughly researched work of art. The author takes into account every aspect of every imaginable (and unimaginable) element of human nature, politics, religion, culture, military theory, geography, and history. I pity anyone who reads this book and does not have a basic appreciation of history and military strategy. To them it would just be a story, but it is so much deeper then that. As far as I know, every real world fact that the author dealt with is well researched and accurate. Not only that, each topic discussed is realistically how one would expect it to effect an apocalypse of the human race by living dead. An intelligent, amazing read from cover to cover, you will not want to put it down!

This book is very well written. The voices are seperate and discernable. You can clearly see each character and they all have is distinct individuality.

If you dislike this book, it is not because you are too stupid. The setting is clever and well informed. The details can delight those who recognize them, and educate to those who don't, sometimes thanks to concise footnotes.

That is masturbatory encyclopaedism at it's best, and it comes with auto-rhetoricism at it's most sanctimonious. The politics are one dimensional and so are the characters. This is the kind of custard that comes in plastic cup and you bought along with a ten dollar blouse and a gross of hotdogs.