{"id":177,"date":"2008-03-05T22:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T04:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2010-12-25T22:28:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:28:48","slug":"world-war-z-by-max-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"World War Z by Max Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"World<\/a>It had been almost two years since I’d read a work of fiction, so at the beginning of the year I figured I’d break that drought as soon as I could. People who know me probably realize (and sometimes wonder why) I have a rather odd obsession with zombies, and I figured that a fine way to get back into fiction was through a book about the undead. As luck would have it, I’d received Max Brooks’ World War Z<\/em><\/a> off my wishlist as a Christmas gift (which made for some funny looks), so it made the decision easy.<\/p>\n

In short, this was the perfect first book for me to read this year. A quick read, it’s broken into short interview passages (almost identical to the style of Studs Terkel) with survivors of a massive global zombie outbreak that was somehow quelled. It hops all around the world, from a doctor who encountered “patient zero” to soldiers who fought in various battles to civilians that did their best to survive it all.<\/p>\n

As with any zombie tale, one obviously has to overlook the scientific leaps of faith, but once you do World War Z<\/em> actually reveals itself to be a well-researched book that touches on political, social, and environment concerns that have their own parallels with real-life situations (which is really the measure of any great zombie-story). Having recently read several<\/a> books<\/a> on different epidemics, the whole spread-of-infection angle seemed fairly plausible, and the book is not only funny at times, but downright creepy in places as well. Supposedly, the book is already being made into a film, and I honestly have to say I’m pretty stoked about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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