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pocon1 · 09-19-2006, 06:16 PM

This book is Awesome. It is written by the writer of the Zombie Survival Guide and it is an oral history ten years after the victory over the zombies. The writing is truly engrossing and the writer's ability to capture the voices of all of these different characters is amazing. If you are a horror and sci-fi person you will definitely dig this. The references to culture before the fall and also all the leadership that ignored the intelligence reports and allowed the plague to advance are spot on. Imagine if you will that you are crossing overland to avoid the zombies. You have to cross a slow moving stream. You start across to water that is slightly over your head. You feel the hand latch around the ankle and the teeth sink into your calf as you are pulled under. You try to scream and water rushes into your mouth. You drown because the zombie never needs air and never tires. Then in a few minutes you reanimate.

Kadath · 09-20-2006, 05:20 AM

I'm planning on getting it because I enjoyed his Zombie Survival Guide. I think maybe this time I'll convince my friends to buy one copy among us instead having three separate copies; not a lot of re-read value.

m0rpheus · 09-25-2006, 03:40 PM

Fuck!!! I totally forgot this was coming out right now. I've been waiting to pick it up since I heard about it months ago and I've got no cash for the next week and a half until I get paid again. Fuck. This is going to be a long week and a half.

rthmchgs · 10-03-2006, 07:36 PM

Max Brooks is Mel Brooks son. I've been looking forward to this book since I heard about it about 6 months ago. It's a damn shame I like to finish the books I have before getting a new one. I would also recommend Monster Island by David Wellington, which I thought was very well written. It's got a couple of turns that I was not expecting. And the end is awesome. Then Monster Nation which is the prequel follow-up, but I haven't read it yet.

Troublebot · 10-05-2006, 11:38 AM

Sigh. This book could have been three times as long and I wouldn't have minded. Good stuff. Have to agree with Kadath though, not alot of reread value.

m0rpheus · 10-06-2006, 09:52 PM

Good to know it's worth picking up. I've been told I cant buy it just yet as my birthday is next monday and someone may have bought it for me so I just re-read the ZS Guide.

m0rpheus · 10-16-2006, 11:51 AM

Okay so I just got the book for my B-day and sat down yesterday at about 4pm and started reading. Just about 24 hours later I just finished it. It's not a hard read obviously but it was AWESOME. I was totally engrossed by it. It didn't come across as overly cliched (one or two of the stories did) and a few of the "survivor's tales" scared the shit out of me.
The one that really got me was the one in northern Canada. There are almost no zombies in the story and it's one of the scariest in my mind mainly because it hits so close to home. I went to bed with that on my mind last night...
I totally agree with what's been said above. Buy this book.

Just kind of curious though. Any word on what Brook's will do next? Another Z book? or something totally new?
[Edit] Okay I just found out the answer for myself...
http://www.revenantmagazine.com/MaxBrooks.htm

Quote:

JR: So, how did the whole movie deal thing with Paramount come about?

MAX: Good question. I wish I had as good an answer. As I understand it, both Brad Pitt’s and Leonardo DiCaprio’s companies had heard of this book months before it was finished and were asking for an advance reader copy as soon as it was ready. Before I knew it, there was a full blown bidding war. Both production companies were calling me to pitch their side and all I could say was “You know what you’re bidding on, right?” I just couldn’t believe these mainstream Hollywood Titans were interested in zombies!

JR: I read online that you’ll be adapting the book for the big screen yourself, are you looking forward to that or is it a bit daunting? How closely will you be sticking to the original text?

MAX: I actually won’t be the one adapting the book. In order for World War Z to work as a film, it will have to be BIG, and in order to get that kind of budget from the studio, there has to be a well established “A-list” screenwriter on board. Strangely enough, I’m totally okay with this. I got all the emotional, artistic satisfaction I needed from the book. This time around, I’m just looking forward to being an audience member.

JR: Are there any plans to do a comic book/graphic novel adaptation of WWZ in the pipeline? If so, would you plan on adapting the story for the medium yourself?

MAX: Funny you should say that. It’s too soon for WWZ but I’m in talks with several comic book companies about adapting the recorded attacks in the back of “The Zombie Survival Guide”, now THAT is a project I’d be excited to work on personally.

JR: Do you have any plans to work on future zombie novels or screenplays or are you interested in moving beyond that genre now you have revitalised it?

MAX: I honestly don’t know. I still love zombies, well… not ‘love’ them, but the genre still fascinates me to no end. I’ll have to wait until I get an idea that I just can’t let go of, the way I did with WWZ. After every project I always get a deluge of new ideas, all of which seem excellent at the moment. It’s just a question of being patient and seeing which refuses to fade.

JR: What does the future hold for Max Brooks?

MAX: Right now, just being a salesman. All publishing is self publishing and after working so hard on World War Z, I feel I have to devote as much blood, toil, tears and sweat to getting out on the road and letting people know it exists. It would be nice have just a little bit of time off in the near future, nothing overly indulgent, just a day or two to kick back on the couch, open a couple of Snapples and watch every episode of “Blackadder”, or even “Night of the Living Dead”. Is that too much to ask?

JR: Max, thank you very much for your time.

Troublebot · 10-31-2006, 09:23 AM

Even though I'd read the book, I found the audio book while on a business trip and spent the drive home (some four hours) listening to it.

Sadly, it's abridged, but all the different voices more than make up for that. Rob Reiner, Carl Reiner, Alan Alda, Henry Rollins and the list goes on. I enjoyed the book, but listening to the stories as told in these different voices really brings something to the overall story.

So far, it's great. Can't wait till I'm in the car again for a long period of time and can sit back and really listen.

09-19-2006, 06:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
pocon1 Banned	World War Z This book is Awesome. It is written by the writer of the Zombie Survival Guide and it is an oral history ten years after the victory over the zombies. The writing is truly engrossing and the writer's ability to capture the voices of all of these different characters is amazing. If you are a horror and sci-fi person you will definitely dig this. The references to culture before the fall and also all the leadership that ignored the intelligence reports and allowed the plague to advance are spot on. Imagine if you will that you are crossing overland to avoid the zombies. You have to cross a slow moving stream. You start across to water that is slightly over your head. You feel the hand latch around the ankle and the teeth sink into your calf as you are pulled under. You try to scream and water rushes into your mouth. You drown because the zombie never needs air and never tires. Then in a few minutes you reanimate.

09-20-2006, 05:20 AM	#2 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	I'm planning on getting it because I enjoyed his Zombie Survival Guide. I think maybe this time I'll convince my friends to buy one copy among us instead having three separate copies; not a lot of re-read value. __________________ it's quiet in here

09-25-2006, 03:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
m0rpheus bad craziness Location: Guelph, Ontario	Fuck!!! I totally forgot this was coming out right now. I've been waiting to pick it up since I heard about it months ago and I've got no cash for the next week and a half until I get paid again. Fuck. This is going to be a long week and a half. __________________ "it never got weird enough for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

10-05-2006, 11:38 AM	#5 (permalink)
Troublebot Intently Rocking Location: Davey's	Sigh. This book could have been three times as long and I wouldn't have minded. Good stuff. Have to agree with Kadath though, not alot of reread value. __________________ Howard Moon: The wind is my only friend. Wind: [whistling] I hate you.

10-06-2006, 09:52 PM	#6 (permalink)
m0rpheus bad craziness Location: Guelph, Ontario	Good to know it's worth picking up. I've been told I cant buy it just yet as my birthday is next monday and someone may have bought it for me so I just re-read the ZS Guide. __________________ "it never got weird enough for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

10-03-2006, 07:36 PM	#4 (permalink)
rthmchgs Upright Location: Norfolk, VA	Max Brooks is Mel Brooks son. I've been looking forward to this book since I heard about it about 6 months ago. It's a damn shame I like to finish the books I have before getting a new one. I would also recommend Monster Island by David Wellington, which I thought was very well written. It's got a couple of turns that I was not expecting. And the end is awesome. Then Monster Nation which is the prequel follow-up, but I haven't read it yet.

10-31-2006, 09:23 AM	#8 (permalink)
Troublebot Intently Rocking Location: Davey's	Even though I'd read the book, I found the audio book while on a business trip and spent the drive home (some four hours) listening to it. Sadly, it's abridged, but all the different voices more than make up for that. Rob Reiner, Carl Reiner, Alan Alda, Henry Rollins and the list goes on. I enjoyed the book, but listening to the stories as told in these different voices really brings something to the overall story. So far, it's great. Can't wait till I'm in the car again for a long period of time and can sit back and really listen. __________________ Howard Moon: The wind is my only friend. Wind: [whistling] I hate you.