WORLD WAR Z: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ZOMBIE WAR

written by Max Brooks

published by Three Rivers Press

ISBN-10: 0307346617

ISBN-13: 978-0307346612

reviewed by Adam Armstrong

09.14.2008

Enough with the funny business let’s get onto serious zombie action.

With information being suppressed there is only one thing for a reporter to do: go out and get the truth from those who witnessed it. From doctors in China seeing the first outbreak to soldiers in America fighting a losing battle, dozens of interviews and first person accounts are recorded about the zombie war. We learn how it started, why it spread so fast, and what we can do if the plague starts to flair up again.

Zombies, in their modern day form of reanimated corpses, were created by George A. Romero as a way to critique society. Due to the fact that they are easy to create on the screen and in books the market has been flooded by tons of media that is lame and weak using zombies as low budget boogeymen. It is wonderful to once again see the genre used for what it was intended for in Max Brooks’ follow up novel to his hilarious Zombie Survival Guide. I thought this book was brilliant and loved to see zombies get back to their roots. The range of voices didn’t vary that much from story to story but the content held my attention fast. While this is a review of the book form I’ve heard equally good things about the audio-book form which has a few voices you may recognize telling their accounts of the zombie war.

Buy it: 5 out of 5