World Of War
I was one of many who heard about Max Brooks'
satirical guide book The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from
the Living Dead. Being a huge fan of George A. Romero's Dead series of
films and just the zombie subgenre in general, I was intrigued by the
release of this guidebook. From the first page to the last I was
impressed, entertained, and hooked on Brooks' serio-comic take on how to
survive a zombie outbreak. One section of the book which really caught
my interest and has remained a favorite to reread over and over was the
final one which details the so-called "historical" instances of past
zombie outbreaks throughout history. From as far back as Ancient Egypt
and Rome up to the late 1990's. My only gripe about that section of the
book was that it was all-too-brief. I felt that it could've been made
longer and even would've made for a fine book on its own. Maybe I wasn't
the only one to have wished for such a thing to happen for it seems
that Brooks himself might have thought the same thing. His latest book
in his trip through the zombie genre is titled World War Z: An Oral
History of the Zombie War and it takes the final chapter of his previous
book and expands on it. But instead of using past "historical events"
to tell his story Brooks goes into the near future to describe what
would happen if the zombies ever did bring the human race to the brink
of extinction and how humans finally learned how to fight back and take
back the world.
World Of War
World War Z is a fictional account of a worldwide outbreak of the living dead in the near future and judging from some of the descriptions of places and events in the beginning of the book it won't be too far in the future.Read more
World Of War
