
World War Z
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"The end was near." Voices from the Zombie War.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.
He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living - or at least the undead - hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
- Listening Length13 hours and 56 minutes
- Audible release date13 November 2012
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB00NSPPHSY
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 13 hours and 56 minutes |
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Author | Max Brooks |
Narrator | Christopher Ragland, Rupert Farley, Nigel Pilkington, Jennifer Woodward, David Thorpe, Adam Sims, Robert Slade |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 13 November 2012 |
Publisher | Audible Studios |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B00NSPPHSY |
Best Sellers Rank | 314 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Ghost Horror Fiction 2 in Ghost Stories |
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Overall I think it's very well done. There isn't as much one-on-one fighting and gore as some may like, but more discussion on the effects of society as a whole - done with what strikes me as thought and realism. Well worth buying, especially at that price!
Top reviews from other countries

It is about recognising our flaws in the form of reluctance, hesitation and denial as much as it is about recognising our capacity for survival in the harshest situation by way of grit and determination.
Our best survival tools are the aspects of ourselves we turn our noses up at as being archaic and uncomfortable.

It's compelling reading - so many voices, backgrounds, nationalities all retelling their experiences during the 10 year war. Zombies are bit players in the drama and conflicts and bravery.
Some of the stories will stay with you long after you've finished reading.
Max Brooks is a skillful, intelligent writer with a strong grasp on how people tick.
Highly recommended.

WW Z is a fun, easy read and for me the standard against which to judge zombie novels ( and somewhat, zombie films though the epic Brad Pitt film is largely unrelated, having fast British-style 28 Days Later Zs).
The journalist interviewing survivors from all over the world narrative works well: each telling a different part or stage of the apocalypse from official denial and cover-up, outright lying by many countries' rulers (with noble exceptions) ,through to disastrous or non-existent countermeasures, defeat, slaughter, panicked flight, exile and eventual stalemate, and thereafter on to counter attack and human resurgence. Lots of different characters, situations and ideas to enjoy. And if the American Brooks gets his ideas of the British from a Hollywood view of us, well who can blame him?
It's a relaxing book to reread on holiday and with maybe one eye on the weather.
And as we start to come out of internal exile as Corvid19 sputters to some kind of constant low rolling tragedy I'm not sure the pre WW Z leaders come out as quite the dolts and crooks (and clearly Noughties Republicans in the States) that progressive Brooks made them out to be: imagined them way back when. At least they tried NOT to crash the world economy in a panic over their pandemic.
And yes, Brooks'' postwar world is mostly liberal,.globalist, and basically written as if Bill Clinton and Colin Powell had saved the world,.with a little help from moderate communists and Silicon Valley Democrats. Also, it's very much a pre-internet world and so it's Spielberg? or Tarantino? who keep civilian morale up rather than Amazon Prime and Netflix might try to do today.. Might.
Brookes tries to be fair to people (even Americans) not like himself., so it's
not much of a torment to read his preachy Greens or New Dealers gloating about their triumphs- patriots and professional soldiers and monarchists get a fair whack. Great fun for all the English-speaking folk apart from the then-extreme bookends of Left and Right.
But it's now the summer of 2020 and with western cities in flame, the police on their knees and the statues of soldiers who defeated the Confederacy and Hitler vandalised,destroyed or locked away for safety, who knows? -perhaps Brooks' exciting fantasy of postwar poverty, unnecessary food rationing, Tsarism peace and Social Democracy may soon seem like a dream of paradise.
Five stars for a fiver well spent way back when . Treat yourself to what may very well be numerous re-reads. And it's got to be nicer than living in Seattle right now..

It works because so many of the tales ring true. When I mentioned to a friend her cooking skills would in great demand after the zombie war, she exploded with protests about her professional background and job. Right at that point in the text, an organiser was talking about how difficult it was to convince a man who used to "get hold of the rights to classic rock songs for commercials" that his skills weren't just inappropriate, they were obsolete - the post-apocalypse world needs carpenters and builders and manual trades, not marketers...
The way the eyewitness interviews develop over time, spanning countries and viewpoints, come together as a single, coherent picture of just what happened, how we solved it, how difficult it was. This book is truly something different. And that's not common in today's lit. A fantastic read.
