World War Z : : an Oral History of the Zombie war

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Warnings -- Blame -- The great panic -- Turning the tide -- Home front USA -- Around the world, and above -- Total war -- Good-byes.
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival.

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Greatest Zombie Book submitted by Chris82 on July 30, 2011, 9:43pm This is one of the best zombie books out there. It takes a unique approach in the writing too. Instead of being written as a normal book with a few characters its written as a series of interviews with people that took part in the war.

re: greatest zombie book submitted by Jwaller on February 22, 2012, 6:35pm it is a documentary

great submitted by steelersfan1 on June 24, 2013, 1:29pm greatest zombie book ever!!!

good submitted by Franklin123 on June 29, 2013, 6:17pm really good book

great submitted by michael007 on June 30, 2013, 6:10pm This is a great zombie book

Amazing submitted by chasehyatt99 on January 9, 2014, 8:23pm I am rather unsatisfied with a reviews so far, because "really good book" doesn't even begin to describe this story. This is not just one of the best zombie books I have read, it is one of the best books, period. The quality lies in the presentation. A unique perspective on a story which could have turned out to be terrible is instead pure genius. The interviews with people all around the world make this book amazing. With each interview, you really feel like you get to know the person telling the story. This might have detracted from the story, instead, it enhances it. The human element of the story is what really gets you about this book.

Brooks is a genius and it is obviously illustrated in this book. An absolute recommendation to anyone and everyone- just make sure you keep the lights on!

Love the stylistic approach submitted by crwilley on June 12, 2015, 12:24pm I don't know how anyone thought they could turn this into a Hollywood Blockbuster Film With A Big Name Star - there is no "big name star" role in the book, there is no one single hero. The whole point of the book is that there’s no single Hero, that everyone had their own experience, that everyone’s experiences are valuable, that everyone who lived is a hero in at least a small way.

The story really rings true - the "history" of how the zombie epidemic started and how it played out struck me as something that, yes, could absolutely happen if a zombie virus were to break out under the circumstances imagined in the book. The interview format was a really brilliant way to tell the story, and all the individual "heroes" had their own voice - and I got the distinct sense that every last one of them was suffering from PTSD.

Great submitted by ECReader on June 18, 2016, 12:54pm This was an amazing and interesting book that I think many people would like. It was a new and amazing take on the common idea of a zombie apocalypse. I loved reading each interview and I thought it was very cool how the author talked about every aspect of the zombie war from many different countries.

Excellent - and I'm not into zombies! submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 15, 2017, 10:02am This was a whole lot of fun. Told as a series of interviews with individuals around the world who have survived the zombie outbreak, the "history" captures everything from the first glimmers of the outbreak to how it spread to how it was fought and how the world is rebuilding. Creepily well told enough to make you believe it was real, I thoroughly enjoyed this book -- and I'm not into the zombie thing!

Awesome, Even If You Don't Like Zombies submitted by Meginator on August 16, 2017, 11:25am This book absolutely blew me away! Max Brooks has a way of constructing characters and scenarios that makes them seem incredibly real, and by structuring his novel as a series of interviews with zombie apocalypse survivors he ratchets that realism up to 11. I highly recommend this even if you're not usually that into the zombie thing; the book is more about the potential consequences of a worldwide disaster than about zombies, specifically, as the cause of that disaster, and it's immersive and well-written and all-around amazing. Highly, highly recommended for everyone.

great! submitted by KOH on August 29, 2017, 9:20pm Really good zombie book!

One of the Best submitted by SaraP on August 5, 2022, 11:06pm One of the best zombie books ever. Brooks uses the oral history structure to get at all sides of the story and develop many different characters all at once.