Finished off the Excellent book “World War Z” this weekend. Written in the style of anecdotes as told by survivors from the Zombie war. The book is set in the years after the war, when the world is on the mend, Zombies are not entierly gone, and things are a little different to how we might see them today. Not too much of this is discussed in the book, but mentioned by the ‘interviewer’ in amongst the transcripts of the ‘interviewee’.
I was originally a little sceptical to how this style of writing would work, but it work very very well. It allows Max Brooks to give the reader a variety of different views and detailed descriptions of events without having to string it all together into some single story, which I imagine would be quite a feat and require a much much larger book with a much lesser quality. This has to be one of the few books I have thoughorly enjoyed reading every part of, so much so it has influenced dreams sufficiently to have Kerry contemplate taking it off me and stopping me reading it before bed. Simon Pegg rates it, I rate it, people at work rate it..
hope it’s good; had a gander at amazon and it seems quite mad and ordered it. did you read the book before it?
nope, though I plan to get and read that now too. Although I believe it is quite a dry book in comparison. I just got fedup with all the Zombie discussions and not knowing the anecdotes myself
so had to buy a copy.. Worth every penny.