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World War Z
By Max Brooks
8/10
"The collective recalled personal memories and accounts of survivors of the Zombie War, from the first outbreaks, through The Great Panic, and eventually to victory, albeit in a world where spring thaws are times of fear in the north and coastlines always carry the risk of attack, and there are still "White Zones" where the undead rule."
The book is written in the format of a reporter who has travelled far and wide and recordec the accounts of survivors of a war that we consider impossible, from the people witnessing the first outbreaks of the Blight, through those who took advantage for their own gain, through stories of people merely trying to survive and those in the militaries tasked with defending their fast crumbling nations to the tide of infected, through civil strife and civil wars to those who finally reorganized and stood firm and those who would partake in taking back the world for humanity.
While there are some instances I felt personally seemed a bit stretched, one battle that seemed only plausible if every commander involved suddenly lost all military competence and logic and blaming the failure on Cold Warriors (even though Cold War planning was all about stopping human wave attacks) overall the book did a good job of really making the war seem plausible and real.
It caught well the human story behind it, how you would expect humanity to react and face the impossible that is the risen dead, and while naturally science has to be suspended in some small parts to believe in the zombies, overall Brooks does a good job of predicting how humanity recoils and reacts to the hell on Earth scenario that they are presented with.
I really like zombie apocalypse/modern civilization collapse type survival movies and this book was as interesting as any, leaving, as it was in this case, allot of gory detail to the imagination, you'll read everything from the politics of a zombie infested world to personal stories of survival, of accounts of bravery and cowardice, of the determination to survive and of people who simply let go of life.
It reminds me of allot of what I like about the HL2 series and thats the ever present sense of desolation and decay, and of that ever so faint glimmer of hope amongst a tide of hopelessness.
It touches on humanity by the stark contrast of the zombies complete lack of it.
So if you like that zombie stuff give it a read. :imu:
By Max Brooks
8/10
"The collective recalled personal memories and accounts of survivors of the Zombie War, from the first outbreaks, through The Great Panic, and eventually to victory, albeit in a world where spring thaws are times of fear in the north and coastlines always carry the risk of attack, and there are still "White Zones" where the undead rule."
The book is written in the format of a reporter who has travelled far and wide and recordec the accounts of survivors of a war that we consider impossible, from the people witnessing the first outbreaks of the Blight, through those who took advantage for their own gain, through stories of people merely trying to survive and those in the militaries tasked with defending their fast crumbling nations to the tide of infected, through civil strife and civil wars to those who finally reorganized and stood firm and those who would partake in taking back the world for humanity.
While there are some instances I felt personally seemed a bit stretched, one battle that seemed only plausible if every commander involved suddenly lost all military competence and logic and blaming the failure on Cold Warriors (even though Cold War planning was all about stopping human wave attacks) overall the book did a good job of really making the war seem plausible and real.
It caught well the human story behind it, how you would expect humanity to react and face the impossible that is the risen dead, and while naturally science has to be suspended in some small parts to believe in the zombies, overall Brooks does a good job of predicting how humanity recoils and reacts to the hell on Earth scenario that they are presented with.
I really like zombie apocalypse/modern civilization collapse type survival movies and this book was as interesting as any, leaving, as it was in this case, allot of gory detail to the imagination, you'll read everything from the politics of a zombie infested world to personal stories of survival, of accounts of bravery and cowardice, of the determination to survive and of people who simply let go of life.
It reminds me of allot of what I like about the HL2 series and thats the ever present sense of desolation and decay, and of that ever so faint glimmer of hope amongst a tide of hopelessness.
It touches on humanity by the stark contrast of the zombies complete lack of it.
So if you like that zombie stuff give it a read. :imu:
