Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1) in DC Public Library

Aug 20, 2011 Tracy rated it liked it

Shelves: read-it-and-was-okay

This book is interesting because it was told from the perspective of a zombie. There were some funny parts and some strange parts. A zombie will always be a zombie and will eat your brains if it needs to. The main zombie, who goes by a letter R (or something like that) is out on a food finding mission and runs into a group of teenagers. He lets the reader know that he is articulate, even though he can only speak with grunts or broken words and that he has memories of the people whose brains he e ...more

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Jan 04, 2013 Jess rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fun-and-funny, paper-book, other-supernatural, post-apocalyptic, borrowed-from-library, book-to-movie

I want to go out and get and eat everything Isaac Marion has ever written. And also his brains, because they're apparently marvelous. Of course, now I'm afraid of being severely disappointed by the movie. But I'll still see it because it's what led me to the original source material thanks to its potential adorableness and unique-looking-ness.

My brain has been slightly starved for marvelous prose recently, and I was not expecting a first-person zombie book to be the thing to give me that. But R ...more

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Nov 21, 2012 Jessica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned, ya, sweet, future, humor, dystopia, horror, for-josh, zombies

I loved this. A strikingly original take on the zombie mythology, one that I think may be more palatable to those of us who don't enjoy the typical zombie tropes. Dark humor and wonderful writing bring the story of R and Julie to life... or back to life, as the case may be. ...more

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