World War Z

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978-0-7156-3703-6
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 zombie apocalyptic horror novel written by American author Max Brooks. The novel is broken into eight chapters: “Warnings”, “Blame”, “The Great Panic”, “Turning the Tide”, “Home Front USA”, “Around the World, and Above”, “Total War”, and “Good-Byes”, and features a collection of individual accounts narrated by an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission, following the devastating global conflict against a zombie plague. Other passages record a decade-long desperate struggle, as experienced by people of various nationalities. The personal accounts take place all over the world, including Antarctica and even outer space. The "interviews" detail the experiences of the survivors of the crisis, as well as social, political, religious, economic, and environmental changes that have occurred as a result. World War Z is a follow-up to Brooks' fictitious survival manual The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), but its …

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Wow. Nothing like the movie and an intensely gripping read.

This book tells the fictional story of the Zombie War in what looks like first hand accounts with interview questions, footnotes and information about the setting. Despite this unique structure it was a real page turner that I could barely put down once I started reading. It paints a very smart picture of the choices, desparation and outcomes such a scenario would produce. And: It has nothing to do with the movie. In fact, I was surprised how different the book was.

Guerra Mundial Z

Me ha resultado muy entretenido, uno de esos libros que no puedes dejar de leer y que se devoran sin darte cuenta. Está escrito con un estilo periodístico sobrio, pues lo que se supone que leemos es un informe fruto de las entrevistas de un investigador. Cada una de esas entrevistas conforma un relato breve de un superviviente en un lugar del mundo.

Hasta aquí todo bien. ¿Lo malo? Pues un montón de cosas:

  • La principal es la típica falta de profundidad del lenguaje propia de todo bestseller de moda y que a mí me deja una sensación de vacío tremenda. Una cosa es que el estilo sea sobrio y otra cosa que no exista ninguna ambición de hacer algo que merezca la pena con las palabras.

  • Todos los personajes tienen la misma voz. Esto se hace especialmente tedioso y me parece un fallo estilístico imperdonable. Vale que lo que …

One for US military enthusiasts

Some time in the 2000s I remember stumbling on a lengthy set of Reddit posts asking "what if a force of modern US Marines found themselves stranded in Ancient Rome?". Much of this book is that, but for the zombie apocalypse. If you enjoyed that Reddit series then you'll probably enjoy this in the same way.

At other points in this fictional "oral history" I found myself thinking fondly of the late Studs Terkel's engrossing (real) oral history book Hard Times. I noticed Studs was thanked in the Afterword (along with George Romero, obvs). Hard Times is a classic because it captures different overlapping experiences of the Great Depression in people's own words, recorded by the author with dignity and respect. I think Max Brooks aimed for a fictional form of this, but missed the heart and soul of it - overlapping accounts of the same experience told by real, …