Book Recommendation: World War Z

[TheQueen]

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I just finished this book and I would HIGHLY recommend it. It's a great read and once you start you won't be able to put it down.

The book is an oral historical account of what happened when the world was taken over by a plague that reanimated its dead victims forcing them to attack the uninfected and spreading the infection. Yes. It's about zombies.

But the book is great because its premise is completely plausible. Especially the way the world reacts to the plague. Governments shut down, people panic, wars break out on borders trying to prevent refugees and the infected from sweeping into various countries. All you have to do is replace zombies with bubonic plague and you get the sense that everything that happens in the book could happen. In the end though, humanity bonds together to fight the spread of the plague and to eliminate the infected.

I don't normally read horror novels, but the way the book is presented in a historical format with first hand eye accounts of how the plague started and then spread and then was contained made it a really good read for me.

[Christy]

OMG So crazy because this was recommended by a reader in Real Simple magazine! :lol

Ok, two recommendations in 24 hours, I think I will pick it up. :thumbs

[Christy]

So did you read pride and prejudice and zombies? :lookaroun I did, but I had to keep it hidden, the cover freaked Leah out :blush

[figmentmom]

I'm in. :flower

[TheQueen]

I was thinking that, Christy! Well, you read this book you might as well read P&PZ.:rotfl

Trust me, zombies are SO not my thing. But the book was REALLY good. If you like The Stand by Stephen King, then you'll like this book.

I have to admit though, it does make you realize just how fragile civilization is. It only takes one really bad plague and then all bets are off as to whether we make it or not.

[figmentmom]

I was thinking that, Christy! Well, you read this book you might as well read P&PZ.:rotfl

Trust me, zombies are SO not my thing. But the book was REALLY good. If you like The Stand by Stephen King, then you'll like this book.

I have to admit though, it does make you realize just how fragile civilization is. It only takes one really bad plague and then all bets are off as to whether we make it or not.

LOVED The Stand. :thumbs

[Christy]

I've started it, I don't know if I can stick with it :blush It's good, i don't mean it like that, it's just, you know, disturbing :lol REALLY disturbing. Like Shaun of the Dead without the fun :goofy

[TheQueen]

I've started it, I don't know if I can stick with it :blush It's good, i don't mean it like that, it's just, you know, disturbing :lol REALLY disturbing. Like Shaun of the Dead without the fun :goofy

Yeah, the chapters dealing with the "Great Panic" are VERY disturbing. But stick with it. You soon get used to the idea of the "walking dead" and then when the book switches to the chapters where the remaining humans go on the attack, that's totally worth it.

[Christy]

Ok... I think the trick is reading it in broad daylight :goofy :blush

[TheQueen]

Ok... I think the trick is reading it in broad daylight :goofy :blush

TOTALLY!! Don't read it in bed before sleeping. I made that mistake.

[figmentmom]

I haven't started it yet, I'm forced to admit. :blush The whole buying-a-house-selling-a-house-relocating-thing, you know. :rotfl

I'll get to it soon. Honest. :flower

[Christy]

Did you buy one yet? Cause you can have mine :lookaroun

I got to where a lady's kids got grabbed through the windows and I was done. I can't do it. :lol

You know, it's not even the whole zombie thing, but it's the being cornered/nowhere to run thing, I can't... I don't know. I feel claustrophobic reading it :rotfl

*weenie* :blush

[TheQueen]

Did you buy one yet? Cause you can have mine :lookaroun

I got to where a lady's kids got grabbed through the windows and I was done. I can't do it. :lol

You know, it's not even the whole zombie thing, but it's the being cornered/nowhere to run thing, I can't... I don't know. I feel claustrophobic reading it :rotfl

*weenie* :blush

WEENIE!!! It gets TONS better. Of course it's darkest before the dawn. You should try to finish it. Although I totally understand. I keep wondering now, now how zombie proof is my house? The courthouse I'm in is TOTALLY zombie proof. We'd just need food and water and I could hole up for a long time.

[Christy]

:rotfl

I read it thinking

1) this would be TOTALLY freaking scary if the zombies were fast... but...
2) how do they continue to function at ALL, surely the muscle atrophy would keep them from being able to move at all :lookaroun Especially the ones who were frozen all winter and are reanimating after they thaw.
3) Does every house in EVERY zombie story have only single pane glass in its windows? :blink