I saw this book at the rainbow plaza library and had to pick it up. After all, it looked funny. But while this book was entertaining, it wasn't as funny as I expected.
Like the title says, this is a survival guide, teaching you about the type of weapons, how to run, how to choose a fortress, etc when the undead come to attack us. Interweaved is the narrative of how there's a cover-up of a zombie invasion (or rather, official sources still don't acknowledge the existence of zombies). At the end of the book, there's a short 'history' of zombie attacks.
For me, this book was surprisingly serious. The book doesn't laugh at itself at all, which dampened the whole "light read" idea I had. There was even a 'scientific' explanation of why zombies came about, and well, the lack of self-referential humour made the book more like an actual guide than a parody of a guide.
But, I enjoyed reading about the history of attacks. It's an interesting alternate history, and wasn't too long.
I guess this book is a companion to World War Z, which I haven't read but sounds interesting (there's an excerpt at the end of the book). I suppose if that's the case, it makes sense for the book to be so serious - it's keeping in nature with the alternate reality after all.
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"Max Brooks is Not Kidding About the Zombie Apocalypse"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/max-brooks-is-not-kidding-about-the-zombie-apocalypse.html?_r=0
Explains a lot about the tone of the book and the author.
That does explain a lot. Thanks for linking to the article!
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