Author: Max Brooks
This war novel falls under the genres of fiction, fantasy, humor, and horror, for the main part. It’s most prominent themes are warfare, fear, and change. WWZ is a story collection from all around the world of individual involvements with the zombie apocalypse. This book takes the point of view of dozens of people, all in different positions of society, like generals, citizens, government officials, soldiers, etc.. The narrator, who we never learn much about (not even their name), travels the world collecting these interviews of personal face-to-face with death experiences. Brooks wrote incredibly human reactions to the end of the world and not just a cliche hero-of-the-month zombie adventure.
This book shows the popular zombie apocalypse in an entirely new way. It's very interesting, especially since it was frighteningly realistic at times. The only negative of this novel being how stereotypical the undead people were. They were the basic Hollywood rendition and the book didn't provide much science on the subject of the disease. But on that subject, it did explain a lot more than The Walking Dead ever did, like the place of origin for the disease and how it spread so fast throughout the world.
World War Z can be related to the idea that military and government power can only go so far and the theory that when the entirety of the world is majorly threatened, countries can put aside disputes between each other to join and fight the common enemy.
The novel wouldn't be recommendable to hard-core sci-fi fans, just because there’s the lack of science with the zombies. But if you like seeing pop culture’s popular ideas in a whole new light, this is a good book. World War Z is the only record of the “plague years” and is entertaining and one of those novels you’ll only love more each time you read it.
Aine Kern
This war novel falls under the genres of fiction, fantasy, humor, and horror, for the main part. It’s most prominent themes are warfare, fear, and change. WWZ is a story collection from all around the world of individual involvements with the zombie apocalypse. This book takes the point of view of dozens of people, all in different positions of society, like generals, citizens, government officials, soldiers, etc.. The narrator, who we never learn much about (not even their name), travels the world collecting these interviews of personal face-to-face with death experiences. Brooks wrote incredibly human reactions to the end of the world and not just a cliche hero-of-the-month zombie adventure.
This book shows the popular zombie apocalypse in an entirely new way. It's very interesting, especially since it was frighteningly realistic at times. The only negative of this novel being how stereotypical the undead people were. They were the basic Hollywood rendition and the book didn't provide much science on the subject of the disease. But on that subject, it did explain a lot more than The Walking Dead ever did, like the place of origin for the disease and how it spread so fast throughout the world.
World War Z can be related to the idea that military and government power can only go so far and the theory that when the entirety of the world is majorly threatened, countries can put aside disputes between each other to join and fight the common enemy.
The novel wouldn't be recommendable to hard-core sci-fi fans, just because there’s the lack of science with the zombies. But if you like seeing pop culture’s popular ideas in a whole new light, this is a good book. World War Z is the only record of the “plague years” and is entertaining and one of those novels you’ll only love more each time you read it.
Aine Kern