Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:59 pm
I was sucked in by page 2. Not even half way through yet, but it's a fun read.
Written by Max Brooks, the son of Mel, it is a fictional retrospective of the Great Zombie War that happened a few years ago. The narrator goes around getting stories of what seemingly random people did during the war... even the book's dust jacket, where it ordinarily has a blurb about the author, keeps the fiction going by telling us how the author survived the war.
It's a great universe he is developing, considering it is all characterization. I'd love to see this as a movie.
There was one anecdote from an arab that escaped from Kuwait to Israel... I was shocked at how pro-Jew it was being, as I'm used to media-artist-types to be very liberal... but then I remembered who the author was.
Lots of twists, even in a 2-page narrative. This guy is a great writer.
Written by Max Brooks, the son of Mel, it is a fictional retrospective of the Great Zombie War that happened a few years ago. The narrator goes around getting stories of what seemingly random people did during the war... even the book's dust jacket, where it ordinarily has a blurb about the author, keeps the fiction going by telling us how the author survived the war.
It's a great universe he is developing, considering it is all characterization. I'd love to see this as a movie.
There was one anecdote from an arab that escaped from Kuwait to Israel... I was shocked at how pro-Jew it was being, as I'm used to media-artist-types to be very liberal... but then I remembered who the author was.
Lots of twists, even in a 2-page narrative. This guy is a great writer.