World War Z

With the popularity of shows like AMC's The Walking Dead, and countless video games and movies on them, zombies are quite the hot ticket right now. World War Z by Max Brooks was recommended to me by a friend about a year ago, and although I hadn't bothered to read it until now, because, well, I didn't read back then, the couple of months I spent living through the pages were quite an adventure.

World War Z is a different kind of book, instead of being "in" the story, you're in every story: every person that survived the zombie apocalypse. You live in their shoes, share their fears, yell along with them, and jump out of your seat when shit hits the fan. You hear about how zombies were able to cross the world and spread the disease from South East Asia in rural China all the way to the US. You hear stories from human traffickers to the everyday person to the pilot shot down in "zack" territory; the hope in Israel to the winters that froze them. Brooks covers everything from the Battle of Yonkers to the final cleansing of the US and the beginning of the end. Everything is explained, and that's what makes it so good : )

The whole phenomenon of the zombie apocalypse is explained so well, it's scary to see how plausible it is. For myself, I love the whole zombie fetish that's sweeping the world and the US in particular; WWZ definitely doesn't disappoint. About half way through, I had learned that there will be a movie coming out about this book, so hurry up and read this first!! With so many stories, i doubt they will all make it onto the big screen, and as with every other book turned movie, the little things you miss in the movie make all the difference.