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Ingenious. So completely outside my normal reading. Recommended by my friend, Shawn.
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | 
pick★★★★☆
Ingenious. So completely outside my normal reading. Recommended by my friend, Shawn.
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My October choice is (surprise) World War Z. It continues to be one of my absolute favorite books. I really wish the movie had done it justice. I would 100% read another book if Brooks ever decided to do a follow up. Probably one of the most imaginative zombie stories I‘ve come across in any media.
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pickI so loved this audiobook. It was absolutely fantastic ♥️
It is the story of the world after the zombies attack. It's rather scary in its realism though.
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I‘ve reread this book more times than I can count. It still holds up as one of my absolute favorites. It‘s interesting to read it now with the Covid pandemic and the political unrest sweeping the planet. Many scenarios that Brooks proposed in the novel have eerily similar real world parallels. Just minus the zombies. I still wish Hollywood had done this book justice instead of just stealing the name for their own zombie flick.
I quite like #Zombie books, but this one is a classic. I quite enjoy the interview style for a certain type of book, and Max Brooks is sooooo good at this! (Devolution has a similar style for a Bigfoot story and is also amazing).
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Started this. Reading with my friend, my daughter, and my son-in-law.
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Recent acquisitions (gifts from my good friend and fellow bibliophile, Shawn):
📖 World War Z by Max Brooks
📖 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
📖 Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden
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pickThis book was so unique and nothing at all like the movie (which I really liked as well). Interesting way to tell the story of the zombie war! Only thing I didn‘t like was the fact that in the end, he went back and had little blurbs from people previously quoted in the book, but I couldn‘t remember who was who because he interviewed so many people!
⭐️: 4/5
Posting a couple days late but I managed to sneak in one last book on Halloween while #audiopuzzling.
This one did not disappoint!
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pickWell you can‘t beat the audio version. With a full cast, It‘s pretty great. I thought I‘d try this out because it was available on Libby, but it‘s not a genre I like. I‘ve just never experienced the thrill that others get from zombie stuff. I bet it was pretty cool in 2006 when Brooks wrote it though.
Been wanting to reread this for a while
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Make a great day everyone 🎃
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This was a relisten to my favorite zombie book and one of my faves of any genre. The full cast audio is the best audiobook I've ever heard. Every narrator is amazing. It's just so good. If I had influence with HBO or prime video, I'd be having them do a Band of Brothers type docu-drama movie with the interviews interspersed within it. The one they made was entertaining for what it was but it in no way reflected the book.
3✨ This was not what I was expecting, but the audio version of this book was excellent. They had a full cast to help with all the interviews. Zombies have appeared and witnesses all over the world tell their experience when it all started. #Scarathon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick
Audio coloring while working on #OutstandingOctober readathon along with catching up on #OminousOctober @Andrew65 @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #Scarathon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick “Orange”
Tagged! Hmm…I think I‘m up to 4-5 times… Not sure. I love everything about it. The style it‘s written in, the scope of the story, the horror, the humor, everything. I even let my brother borrow it, then immediately wanted to reread it and so I went ahead and bought a second copy. 🤣 It‘s seriously one of my favorite books ever. ❤️ 🧟♀️ 🧟♂️ 🧟 ❤️
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I‘d never cared for fiction in #audiobook format, but this full cast production changed my mind. 😍🧟♂️😍🧟♂️😍🧟♂️
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I love interesting formats so I enjoyed the news report style of this #letterz ! (Very different from the movie!)
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“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
pickI saw the movie before I got to read the book and was shocked at how very different they were! I love the book‘s documentary-style presentation with a variety of voices giving different perspectives and experiences. It creates a rich experience of the event for the reader. The stories cover different countries, different timelines in the apocalypse, and the event from the perspectives of different kinds of people—some you like, some not so much.
Check Lindsay‘s Book Review of World War Z on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday Blog Post. https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-world-war-z
panI liked the idea of this book but it didn‘t hit home for me. Not enough zombies or something. I‘m not a fan of war stories but I thought I‘d like a zombie war better. ⭐️⭐️
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My #March pick is specifically the audiobook. I'd read this one previously and loved it, but I wanted to experience the full cast audio, which was spectacular. Mark Hamill's performance was particularly memorable.
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#21DaysofHorror Day 21. Ever since I read Yo! by Julia Alvarez, I‘ve been a sucker for interconnected short stories. And in here it‘s basically a man collecting stories from all over the world from before, during, and after the Zombie World War. There have been stories from when I first read it over 15 years ago that still talk to me. One is a woman who falls out of an airplane into zombie trouble when a woman over the radio leads her to 👇🏼
Listening to the chapter "Blame", I just about crapped myself given the state of the world we currently live in. #readarhon
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pickOverall a good read. I really wish I could've listened to the audio though because I think I would've enjoyed it even more that way.
Book club is meeting in a little over a week so I guess I best get started on actually reading the book. I really wanted the audio but neither of my library apps (Axis360 or Libby) offered it 😩
October has some great book club picks at the library. Even though I am never able to actively participate in the discussions (the meetings are always when I work at the school) I still enjoying picking up the books. I have already read the Silent Patient & The Girl who loved Tom Gordon but a reread of at least 1 (Tom Gordon) may be in order. I really wish Libby/Axis/Scribd had World War Z on audio because it is supposed to be fantastic!
pickMax Brooks' book Devolution was so good that I had to read his claim to fame World War Z.
The story is told through a series of interviews with survivors of the Zombie apocalypse from all over the world. Each individual provides a micro level glimpse into the macro level issue. Brooks does a great job including the political and media dynamics that are entwined in modern life. I enjoyed this book but I liked the journal style of Devolution more.
pickSúper entretenido, impactante para leer después de vivir una pandemia.
pickWowowowooww. What a fantastic book. When I was told this was “absolutely nothing like the movie” I believed it, but was still a little surprised that it was actually 0% correlated. this is a book of interviews with people recounting times before, during, and after a zombie war. It was.... amazing. And a very cool book to listen to. Kind of felt like a podcast in some ways! Loved the female pilot chapter the most.
It‘s snowing outside and it‘s a lazy Sunday—perfect time to start a book about a zombie plague pandemic, right?
pickAbsolutely incredible from start to finish. Brooks writes this fictional oral history in a way that makes it all feel so real. WOW.
pickThis is one that‘s been TBR for a long time. I was reminded of it before Christmas when I returned to bookselling for the seasonal rush and saw that Brooks has a new book out.
This was an especially interesting time to read it, as there are a surprising number of parallels between fighting zombies and fighting Covid-19.
While I enjoyed the story, I wish there had been more variety in the way the individual voices were recorded...
pickSeveral years ago my boss was a full-bird colonel, and to my complete amusement his favorite off-topic was zombies- to which I knew nothing. As he deployed to Iraq, and out of concern for my ignorance, he provided me a list of movies to watch in sequence - so I‘d learn the zombie rules in order. Because there are rules! I can‘t wait to DM him to let him know my 2020-21 pandemic reading showdown was with my first zombie book!
A day late, but couldn‘t pass this one up!!
1. Tagged. Y‘all know it‘s my fav at this point, I‘ve posted it about ten times. 😂🤣😂
2. Oooh, favorite? Either the original Night of the Living Dead or the 28 Days/Weeks Later duo.
3. Oh my...so many good ones to mention...I can‘t do just one! 😱
Train to Busan
Fido
Dead Snow
#Alive (that‘s the movie, not an actual hashtag 😅)
and of course, Shaun of the Dead.
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-Indiana
-I can‘t handle this question, and refuse to answer. 😰 (*sigh* tagged is a major contender though... 🙄)
-Wheel of Time
-Just about as hard as choosing a single favorite book, and it changes all the time, but right now it‘s 1917
-Black Books
-Freddie Mercury
-Black
-If I had to choose only one, it‘d be fantasy
-School cafeteria and thrift store
-A cat, hedgehog, gargoyle gecko, four guinea pigs, and a dozen chickens
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2.It gave me nightmares (rare) the first time I read it years ago. It was the most realistic portrayal of the horror humans would face from a “zombiepocalypse”, most of the worst coming from other humans.
3.Dolls and clowns aren‘t scary.
4.Kaiju!!! 😍
5.Books! 🤪 Lol, also dinosaur stuff, fossils, dragons, chicken stuff (especially roosters since I can‘t have one for my hens 😅), vinyl records, dolls, and Skylanders. 😅❤️🤓
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1. It was originally Bookwyrm42 because my fav number is 42. I didn‘t like being one of fifty other people who used a variation of that and other numbers, so while in a goofy mood, I filled up every available character space to create what it is now. 😅
2. Coworkers that roll with the punches instead of throwing fits and causing drama. It‘s been rough lately, but we‘re pulling through! ❤️
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pickLoved this one!
Max Brooks is a favorite of mine. I loved his Zombie Survival Guide, and this book was even better. The interview writing style to tell the story felt like watching a movie. I may now need to see the movie that was made based on this book.
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