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Looks like our winner for Book 1 is World War Z. Commence reading! Post comments here throughout the month. Let's set a deadline of March 1... unless you think you can read faster than that! ;P
Description from Goodreads.com:
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. -
Posted By: Jonny Acei've already read this book, and thoroughly enjoyed it! i guess i'll have to join the book club next monthMal: Well look at this..appears we got her just in the nick of time what does that make us? Zoe: Big Damn Heroes! Mal: Ain't we just.
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I started listening to the audiobook today at work and I really like it so far, they've got surprisingly good voice talent doing all the story tellers. I recognized Mark Hamill and Alan Alda, but the rest are all good too. The exception is Joe Mohammad, the volunteer in the wheel chair, he tries to mix some sincere drama with 'street' dialogue and I don't think it quite works. I was really surprised by the depth of the book, how Brooks actually succeeds tying this silly scifi monster into all these big political themes, it got me thinking about disaster relief and Katrina (I live in Alabama, so there's definitely a little resonance there)
I think my favorite part so far has been the battle at Yonkers. How many times have you tried to solve a tough problem with all the wrong tools?
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