Emerson Salon – Capitol Hill Seattle

Max Brook’s novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, is a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable read. The pace was fast, taking only a few days of casual reading to finish, and took a sufficiently novel approach to the extremely well tred Zombie genre to be very engaging. Rather than telling his story through the antics of a single lead character, the book is instead told though a series of interviews with the survivors of the Zombie war. Through these various accounts, the author is able to weave together a picture of how the Zombie war progressed around the world.

For the most part, the author did a fairly believable depiction of world events given the fantastical development of zombies, including Israel’s rapid fire response, China’s attempt to cover it all up, and the feet dragging and confusion in the US. The one thing that I didn’t get though, was the apparent ability of Zombies to survive at bone crushing depths at the bottom of the ocean. Still, small issues aside, this is a great read and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the Zombie genre. And given recent events in Fremont; I would expect that is a lot of you!