Any resemblance to actual persons, living or undead, is purely coincidental
Somewhat spoiler-ish. I’m too lazy to do an actual thorough review or anything, but if you are planning to read the book and don’t want to know anything, I suggest you skip this posting.
I just finished reading World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. At the very end of the book there was the typical disclaimer, “Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.” I think you can see why this made me laugh.
The book itself was quite good. To be honest, I was a little hesitant to read this book because, while I love zombie movies and TV shows, I thought, “A book about zombies? How scary can that be?” But it was. Not scary the way a movie would be, but definitely frightening to think about what it would be like if the zombie apocalypse were to actually happen. What was also intriguing was the exploration of what it would be like in different countries – zombies freezing in northern climates and then thawing in the spring, more militarized countries having different capacities to fight hordes of the living dead, how countries might go about repopulating the Earth once the zombies were beaten.
I’m interested to see how this will turn out as a movie, which apparently will be coming out next summer1.
- After some delay due to them having to refilm the ending on account of the first version of the ending sucking. [↩]
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I like that I am doing more reading on health-related topics and that you are doing more reading on zombie-related topics. I think we are practicing what I would like to refer to as intellectual osmosis. If it is not a thing, it now is. And yes the zombie thing is intellectual.
I loved this book! I’ll be writing my own review pretty soon. I’ve heard that the film will be really quite different, though – the book would just be far too difficult to film as-is, what with the multitude of narrators and lack of characters present throughout.