I give World War Z 4 Strong Shots!

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 China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.

Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, "By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?"

Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission. Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war>

Review:

This is very different from anything I've ever read, but I did enjoy it. It's not a read-in-one-sitting type of book--which I prefer because my reading time is limited--but it made me think and the writing style made it very realistic. I would compare it to reading detailed interviews about any war in history, the survivors telling you what happened and giving you some insight into what they lived through.

I do wish there had been more SHOWING than telling. It would be awesome if the author wrote another book AS everything is happening, letting the reader experience it with some of the characters. From what I've read about Mr. Brooks, he's very passionate about the zombie genre, so one day we might actually get a book like that. I'd definitely read it :)

Author's Website: http://www.maxbrookszombieworld.com/

*BONUS*

I absolutely loved the movie, but I'm big on action movies and comic book movies and am a lot easier on them than I am with books! lol! I loved Mr. Brooks' thoughts on it and thought it would be fun to share.