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With so many people reading & loving this book, I really wanted to read it, but it bored me to tears. It read like the evening news which I detest. I thought it might make a good audio book. I was right, especially since it was done with a number of different readers, one for each person interviewed. Alan Alda read the part of the ex-stock trader. Excellent!
Seriously, the readers were so fantastic & made the story really pop. Brooks did an excellent job on this story, too. It wasn't just a horro ...more
Seriously, the readers were so fantastic & made the story really pop. Brooks did an excellent job on this story, too. It wasn't just a horro ...more
Ok this is a book I will admit I picked up as result of all the exposure it has received both before and after they announced the film. Dont get me wrong its a innovative book in its style and content, and that alone marks apart from all the other zombie books out there. I doubt the film will follow too closely the book - as the book, literally the entire world because the cast list. However I am glad I picked up this book and chose to read it, it has taken a tried and tested subject and present
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Granted, I didn't finish this book. However, I did enjoy what I read - the first half. Then it all just became too much of the same. The part I read was completely plausible (if Zombies happened to try to take over the world, I am almost certain that this book would be a great guide and will tell governments exactly what not to do and yet they will still handle it exactly like in this book).
But the actual zombies stop after about a third of the book and then the aftermath just continues, foreve ...more
But the actual zombies stop after about a third of the book and then the aftermath just continues, foreve ...more
Really liked this book but the lack of a central character and a central story line (other than the assembler/editor of these war stories) kept me from totally connecting with it. The book is written in the style of a post-war compiled set of memoirs. That lends a lot to the authenticity but keeps you jumping around from person to person.
Very fun (errr... maybe not "fun." Maybe "disturbing" is the more appropriate word) to see the author speculate on the horrible choices countries and communiti ...more
Very fun (errr... maybe not "fun." Maybe "disturbing" is the more appropriate word) to see the author speculate on the horrible choices countries and communiti ...more
Great book. The author used a variety of perspectives and pulled them all together into a single story. Very well done.
Sep 24, 2009
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