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World War Z by: Max Brooks List Price: £8.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780715637036 ISBN: 0715637037 Label: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Manufacturer: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: July 27, 2007 Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Studio: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Sales Rank: 433 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - World War ZThe actor Simon Pegg's cover quotation says it all in regards to this book, implying that Max Brooks knows something we don't. Read this book and you'll see what he means. There is a depth of knowledge on display about how 'it' would go down that is frankly unnerving and it's precisely this quality that makes this one of the most engrossing (no pun intended) books I've read in a long time. One can feel the horror unfolding because a lot of what we're told has already happened and may still be happening - only this time the protagonists are the undead, not some crackpot dictatorship. Over a series of interviews, we are told how our fallible society simply crumbles when the 'Great Panic' ensues and the extreme measures ... Read More: Rating:  - Hopefully the film will be better..Well from what i've read in the past there is plenty of competition to get the filming rights for the book. Anyhow back to the book which i read on the basis of strong reviews. I felt the book had some brilliant chapters especially those dealing with the action in Asia and beneath the streets of Paris. However i found the survivor's accounts rather dull in places as they refer back to some large events of war etc which is usually pebble dashed with useless military jargon and rather vague descriptions of what took place. It's certainly not a bad book but is probably overhyped. Forget this and pick up Robert Kirkman's "Walking Dead" series from Image comics as it's the best zombie related work on the market. Rating: - The most horrific book I have ever readThis book takes you along the journey like no other I have ever read before. It is truly horrifying, not for long graphic descriptions of blood and guts, but for putting you right there in the middle of the action. I enjoyed reading this book so much, it's the sort of book you can't stop thinking about all day and just want to tell everyone about. I do all my reading before I go to sleep and thanks to this book I have had the worst patch of sleep in my life; sleeplessness interrupted by vivid nightmares of zombie attacks. I bought Max Brooks `The Zombie Survival Guide' at the same time, which I absolutely cant wait to read, but I have decided to get a few weeks of good nights sleep before I tackle that! Rating: - An excellent and original take on a tired ideaIt's finally happened. The zombie apocalypse has come and devastated civilisation...but in the end, civilisation rallied and won. Using tactics pioneered in South Africa and bankrolled by Cuba, the largest nation to remain infection-free, the world's armies successfully defeated the undead menace, but only at a staggering cost in lives and resources. Ten years after victory was declared, a journalist travels the world, listening to the stories of the survivors, from those who were there when the outbreak began to those who listened in the corridors of power as key decisions were taken to the stories of everyday men and women thrust into circumstances beyond their control. From Hawaii to China, even to the isolated crew of the International Space ... Read More: Rating: - Max Brooks has written the best book of the Zombie genre - hands downRead this straight away - Don't read the survival guide first (if at all). Max Brooks has written the best book of the Zombie genre - hands down. It is told in a collection of personal stories that as a whole give a good view of the Zombie war or World War Z. Nearly all the stories are tense and the others hold different horrors. Max has developed all characters well and given them strong supporting backgrounds - he also explores the human factor of the survivors and brings many interesting psychological effects of this World Armageddon. It is a stong point that the story is told from many countries and here Max has done his research, bringing out national characters, the Israelies enter into a voluntary quaranteen ... Read More: |
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