World War Z - Max Brooks > Reviews

Advantages: realistic, well written, convincing, compelling, terrifying!
Disadvantages: some reliance on stereotypes

...What would happen to the world and how would you cope as an individual if faced with the undead? Max Brooks is already responsible for the Zombie Survival Guide (a must read for the individual in a zombie infestation scenario), but in World War Z he takes a global overview of the world during and after a supposed zombie 'epidemic'/conflict. Beginning with the very first case in China (although never explaining exactly how the virus made its way ... Read review

Advantages: Really entertaining and engrossing
Disadvantages: Can take itself too seriously.

...his book on how the world may turn out if there was a zombie apocalipse. The book it written as a set of interviews with people from all walks of life. It starts with the first patient being found in the rural parts of China by an old docter. At this time he sees it of no more than another case of desisea in the poor areas of China. This quickly escalates as cases of 'Rabies' spread throughtout the world spread further by organ transplants on the ... Read review

Advantages: 100% believable story, characters feel very genuine, technology advances seem feasible
Disadvantages: none

...writing from a post apocalyptic world in which zombies, are still a small threat. The book is set out into a number of different chapters, with the first chapter telling the story of the beginning of the zombie outbreak which takes place in 2012. Each chapter after that one progresses along the timeline of the outbreak, until the last chapter which deals with the end of the outbreak. Within every chapter there are stories from "eye-witnesses" ... Read review