My version: Paperback
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Zombies
Publisher: Broadway Books, Crown Publishing Group, Random House
First published: 2006
ISBN: 978-0-307-34661-2
Pages: 343
Bought
From the cover:
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost?
Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror first-hand, World War Z is the only record of the plague years.
So, Zombies then. Clearly, the un-dead just will not stay dead.
It’s obviously (?) a tongue in cheek kinda premis, but it’s not written that way. It’s very well done, treating the possibilities he’s running with, seriously, and presenting them accordingly.Whilst a lot of it was akin to reading a Wikipedia page, not all that exciting – or not as exciting as the equivalent sections in the film, some of it, the ‘testimony,’ was gripping even shocking.
If you’ve seen the film, it’s only a little bit like that. There were, as I remember, sections where I thought, oh yeah, that was in the film, but there isn’t like one person – Brad Pitt in the film – leading the way through a chronological-type story. Unless you count the ‘narrator’ as fulfilling that role, I guess. It’s a series of ‘interviews’ with people who were ‘there,’ reliving their experiences. As such, he can’t suggest that each person was a natural born storyteller, now can he? So, there is/are, only glimpses of the tension and thrills that were in the film and which the book as I say, I feel, lacked.
An interesting concept, and well done here, and with a book and a film, I think we’re really done with this particular sphere of the Zombie universe. It’s a book that can be read, at night, on your own…well worth checking out, but perhaps don’t expect too much from it.
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