World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

This was a super interesting story, well executed, but not super well written . . . actually, let’s say this, the story’s writing didn’t reach as high as the story’s ambition.

It’s an oral history, so it’s told by many different narrators . . . except they all sound the same . . . like having the same actor play all the roles.

I hear that the audio book is awesome because all the different parts are played by different actors . . . which would probably help with the voice thing.

Anyway, that’s the only negative I found in the book. The story was super fascinating with a slow burn terror that turns into hope through the indomitable nature of the Human Spirit.

One of the things that Brooks did that I loved was he was very subtle in how he revealed the story. When the book starts, all you know is that there was a Massive Global Zombie Outbreak that almost wiped out the human race, but now it’s over . . . mostly. Then Brooks starts dropping hints as to what transpired. He never out right tells you. He just casually mentions things and then a couple chapters later you find out what he was talking about.

I really liked this book. It was disturbing in few areas, for sure, but way less than I was expecting. The horror came more from the reality of the collapse of civilization than the actual zombie threat (kinda like Red Dawn). Unfortunately because some chapters were rife with profanity I can’t, with clear conscience, recommend it without a strong caveat . . . but dang it was great, especially when the human race rises up from the brink of extinction and turns the tide.

Way to go, Human Race!