World War Z

An Oral History of the Zombie War

Hardcover, 352 pages

English language

Published Sept. 12, 2006 by Crown.

ISBN:
978-0-307-34660-5
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OCLC Number:
65340967

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4 stars (297 reviews)

“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War

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.

Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of …

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Review of 'World War Z' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I'm not a huge Zombie fan. Like couldn't care less about Zombie stuff, the genre is just so played out. BUT. This was a good read, it wasn't over the top zombie and it didn't make it sound like the world is a bunch of idiots who can't escape a shuffling horde.

Review of 'World War Z' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A great book, first and foremost. This one was recommended to me by a medic I was deployed with. At first I thought it was just going to be a book about zombies, but I have to say that it is extremely well written and seems to parallel current international events.

While I dont want to give anything away, I would definitely recommend this book to zombie enthusiasts but more importantly to anyone who enjoys a well constructed story with characters that you can relate too.

By the end of the book I wasnt thinking wow what a zombie book, I was thinking wow what a story.

Review of 'World War Z' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Sucked. Only Max Brooks could write a zombie story and make it boring. The "interviewing survivors" narrative was a bad choice. Totally removed any drama or suspense from the stories - you knew everyone was going to live or else they wouldn't be alive to be interviewed! Plus, each character only got a handful of pages at most, not enough space to create in-depth characters. They were mostly stereotypes either because of this or because that's all Brooks knows. Despite the plague being dubbed "African Rabies" in the book, there is only one black character. I can recall two female characters in the book. One, the downed pilot, has a nervous breakdown while running from a zombie hoard and "hears" her dead mother's voice over her radio. The other, Russian soldier, becomes a human incubator spitting out babies. The other characters that seem like average joes but rise to the …

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  • American Satire And Humor
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Men's Adventure
  • War & Military
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  • Horror fiction
  • War stories
  • Zombies