"The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand 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."
–(Goodreads)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is unlike any book I’ve read (or in this case, listened to). I can’t say that I’ve been dragged into the zombie fad, and this book isn’t going to change that. This book does not follow the traditional arc of a novel. It truly does mimic a documentary and is nothing like the movie of the same name. If you’re looking for character growth or plot development you are probably going to be disappointed. I repeatedly had to remind myself that I was listening to an audiobook and not an episode of This American Life. It is void of special effects and soundbites, which contributed to the realistic tone. Max Brooks voices the journalist of the same name in the book and an all-star cast of actors deliver each story in the book with all of the human emotion you’d find responding to Ira Glass.
