About this title: Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody "The Zombie Survival Guide," tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780715635964ISBN:0715635964
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780715637036ISBN:0715637037
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 352 pages. It began with rumours from china about another pandemic. then the cases started to multiply and soon revealed itself to be much worse. based on interviews with survivors and key players in the 10-year fight-back against the horde, this book brings the traditions of american journalism to bear on an incredible story in the history of civilisation. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Date Published: 14/09/2006
ISBN-13:9780715635964ISBN:0715635964
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780307346605ISBN:0307346609
Description: Acceptable. -Acceptable: A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but the notes cannot obscure the text. About Austin eBooks Austin eBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service! We add inventory to our store daily, and guarantee order processing and shipment within 2 business days. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780307346612ISBN:0307346617
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. F-very minor spine creasing. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 342 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"this book is about zombies the same way the bible is about god. they are mostly background actors who are the reason other characters do what they do and occasionally they will rarrrr in and kill a bunch of people because they cant help it, but mostly they are an invisible presence, always to be feared but never given a voice.
this whole book takes place after the zombies have already destroyed most of the world and is a collection of the testimonials of hundreds (?) of different characters detailing their experiences with the zombie outbreak, and how they have survived. because of this, there arent really any action scenes, or any immediate terror. this book is more about politics and global concerns and human nature and dissatisfaction with the way the government handles natural disasters and (im gonna say it, im gonna say it) the zeitgeist (woohoo) than it is about man-eating corpses. it takes into account so many different aspects of post-zombie experience that i never would have considered like what will the actors do now? and what happens if a zombie gets on board your boat? and how will this affect the rest of the food chain? very multi-faceted, if not what i was expecting.
also interesting: the role of castles in a zombie holocaust, and the underground tunnels in paris: unsafe. so for people like alfonso, who do not enter a room without first considering their escape routes should zombies attack, this could give some interesting perspectives about what may have been overlooked, and provide some good food for thought. brains are for thought. brains are zombie food. you do the math.
"Finished reading it and enjoyed it. Will write a full review later but some highlights:
Good: 1 - Totally didn't expect to like a "zombie" book but this author had a great take on that genre. 2 - I appreciated the detail and research that went into presenting this book from many different cultural and diverse locations 3 - Interesting style to present the "story" as a series of interviews - not an easy medium to do well but I liked the way this occured.
Bad: A few things rung "untrue" for me - like the guy during an exodus carrying a PC desktop monitor. A small nit to be sure but really took me to that place of "unbelievability""
"I have this friend who read this right before me, and he hated it. He said that was because Brooks' "liberal Jewish agenda" shone through on like every page. (I should mention that said friend is himself a liberal Jew, for what that's worth.) I can see what he meant, though it didn't bother me the same way. What did bother me, though, was how much this book is framed like a movie. Framed, seriously. As in, each snippet is like a writeup of a scene in a film, including gestures, stage directions, subtext, etc. And so a lot of times it really hazed into corniness, which, um, yuck.
But for all that, it really did have incredibly gripping sections, and also really scary parts. Not overtly scary, just the kind of subtle fear that makes you whip around real fast when you're walking home at night and you hear the quick crunch of a plastic bottle being run over by a car. There were scenes that were uplifting, of course, scenes that were really intense, scenes that were upsetting in all kinds of ways (including one about dogs which I skipped because I cannot handle reading about bad things happening to dogs. That scene in the Will Smith zombie movie? It was the only part of the movie I saw and I cried for days.)
And it was really just amazingly vast in scope; Brooks really did a terrific job of imagining how every country, every culture would react to a full-scale world war against the undead. There're scenes in Chinese submarines, French catacombs, American suburbs, Israeli cities, etc etc etc. There's feral children and a million different kind of armies a mansion in Hollywood and a Japanese videogamer and more and more. A lot of really memorable stuff, actually, which is saying a lot for someone with a wretched memory.
So yeah. Pretty good book, and it's going to make one hell of a movie."
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