World War Z - Max Brooks

...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 ...
...country or region of the world dealt with the threat. Brooks does an excellent job of writing these stories so that each appears to be the words of a genuine individual who has lived through something totally horrific and I was completely convinced. Whilst reading the book I had to keep putting it down and reminding myself that I was actually reading a story and these events had not actually happened. Brooks' explanations for the transmission and ...

historywitch 22.03.2008 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of World War Z - Max Brooks

...to shake everyone in the world into action against global stupidity and naivete. It also makes me want to board my doors and windows, and destroy the staircase behind me. I loved this book so much that, despite the horrible violence it depicts, the terror and the hopelessness, I let my mother read it. She loved it, too, somehow. ...

Dysaniak 21.07.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of World War Z - Max Brooks

...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 ...
...finds himself out of his world of numbers and facts and into the real world to take care of himself. In a way this shows my situation in my life, but ofcourse slightly more zombies. We see him as he makes a relativly short journey down the outside of his tower block. As he travels down he meets those who have given up hope and those who have given in to the zombie plague. All the way through he uses dark comedy to 'lighten' the mood. A definete ...

Marche1992 21.06.2008 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of World War Z - Max Brooks

...onto the review. World War Z is an amazing book by the equally amazing writer Max Brooks. The way Max Brooks tells his stories, you would easily believe that the Zombie apocalypse has already happened and he is 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 ...
...from countries all over the world that lived through the outbreak (from soldiers and government officials, to average everyday people), describing their experiences and feelings as they and their communities were ravaged by the undead threat. Max Brooks finds a way to make everything in this book 100% believable, it's as if he's actually spoken to people that went through a zombie outbreak and spoken to government officials about how they would ...

Godlesswanderer 31.07.2008 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of World War Z - Max Brooks