World War Z - Max Brooks

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Has anyone else read this book? Its the first book in years that really got my imagination going and made me read it twice in a row - and now its being made into a film by Brad Pitts company.

I cant decide if this is a good thing or bad thing...

if you like zombies, i guarantee you will love this book - lets hope the film does it justice...
 
i have both WWZ and the zombie survival guide audiobooks ..... i still have to listen to WWZ though

fascinating listening .....
 
oh you must put it on right away!!! Please do! I read the survival guide after wwz and I wish Id done it the other way round, however - wwz is the better of the two!

I dont know how they are going to get all the different stories into one film, they mighthave to just stick with the main ones - yonkers etc and maybe just spend a few minutes on say the stories involving the young kid, the space station, submarine etc but then the film might lose how innovative people can be and use anything to help them survive.

I loved all the nicknames too - zack, zedhead, lobos, quislings... please there must be someone else out there who knows what i am on about! :o
 
I have to disagree pal. I have been a zombie fan for years, sinse about 1989, I was 11 back then. I saw Dawn of the Dead for the first time then. That got me hooked on zombies in movie form and books and video games later on. I have to say that World War Z is a complete borefest. I wasted 14 quid on that book. I hate to think of how the movie will turn out then if I think the book is boring. Maybe I will like the movie as movies tend to be different from the books they are using the name of. Happens a lot. And if it happens here then it is for the best IMO.
 
No way! I too am the biggest zombie fan in the world :p and wwz was amazing!

why did you find it boring? was it because it was from a personal point of the people and the collective struggle of humanity - rather than a descriptive gorefest of the zombies (which, dont get me wrong, i would have enjoyed) and how and why?
 
I've read WWZ and The Zombie Survival Guide, WWZ had me totally hooked, read it over two nights, then read it again a month later, quite fancy getting the audio book at some point. Apparently JMS was finished the first draft of the screen play (which was leaked onto the web and had good reviews by those who read it). I'd have preferred a Band of Brothers type mini series but a movie is good if given adequate funRAB and talent. So many fantastic stories (Battle of Yonkers, Paris Catacombs, downed Raptor pilot, General Sing blowing up the mountain pass, Indian ship breaking yard, Chinese Sub, Japanese Otaku and blind warrior, fight back to Iron Maiden's The Trooper, etc). Hope the movie does the book justice.
 
I didnt quite get that one... was she mad? also the whole redeker plan as well, and the interview surrounding it...

im glad im not the only one who is excited by the book!

have you read the script?
 
It's never explained about the Raptor pilot (whether it was real or all in her head), the Redeker plan was basically leaving people as bait behind a mass retreat to keep the Zombies occupied whilst the majority escaped and were able to eventually fight back, of course this meant those left behind (which could be thousanRAB in towns abandoned fending for themselves) were unlikely to survive against the Zombie hordes which is why it was controversial, like Spock says in the Wrath of Khan, "The good of the many outweighs the good of the few or the one."

I've not read the screen play, review though :

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3947&Itemid=99
 
ooops no, sorry, i meant the redeker plan and the interview were one of the excellent bits in the book! quite controversial (especially considering where the idea came from and the type of person that thought it up) - yet necessary action.

it was just the pilot i wasnt sure if she was going mad...
 
My bad I should have looked for a ?

There is so much geo-political, and socio-economic commentary, organ trafficking, population displacement, African Rabies and Phalanx, reliance on technology, psychological breakdown and quislings, etc, that makes WWZ so much more than just a Zombie horror novel.

I'd love Brooks would write a follow up of other interviews, from a personal view I'd like expansion on a few of the stories such as the defenders in Scotland using old castles, the Royal family in WinRABor, things that were mentioned in passing but not in detail.
 
god yeah, i dont know how anyone can have been bored by the book...

i got it from thru a friend who leant it from a friend who lean it to a friend... and now ive leant it to a friend who has leant it to a friend! on imdb, people say the audio book is excellent. run, put it on! now!
 
I think I nodded off listening to it last night :) well it was 2 in the morning. I got as far as, I think it was an american soldier, and he thinks it's all the zombies grabbing at him, but then realises it's his fellow armymen.
 
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