World War Z by Max Brooks

World War Z by Max Brooks | Book Review

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@okami93kage91 Жыл бұрын

Battle of Yonkers is my go to when people tell me the military would absolutely 100% crush any chance of a zombie apocalypse, I guess it still all depends on how exactly the undead spread, incubation period etc etc, but I love that chapter, it does a good job of explaining that not everyone is John Wick, making perfect headsets with every shot, and how quickly munitions would run out in a battle against hundreds of thousands of undead, if not millions.

@TheManOfManyMen Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a great chapter!

@Itssmial_Ova Жыл бұрын

The book really shook me, The crazy thing is World War Z isn't about zombies at all. It's about Humanity. And it's a horrifying reflection about who we really are. But also a reflection on what makes civilization work. The Great Panic for example, Substitute Zombies for Covid and the attitudes of the American's is pretty much exactly what happened IRL. I disagree wholeheartedly that "It's not a great book" and there are no lessons to be learned by it. If that's your honest conclusion you've completely missed the whole point of the book. See Lecture of Opportunity | Max Brooks's lecture at the US Naval War college.

@TheManOfManyMen Жыл бұрын

Maybe I'll reread it someday. Thanks for your comment!

@wiggi0620 Жыл бұрын

The term you were looking for was NEET lol I read World War Z many years ago after I graduated high school(it was 2007, probably when zombie culture was at its peak lmao) and I gotta say, it's still my favorite book I've ever read. Even now, all these years later, I still can picture some of the scenes the book described; the zombie mindlessly digging in the desert for days because it was after a small animal, the woman pilot who swears that she heard another person on her radio guiding her out of the forest. I haven't had a story stick with me like that, let alone a book. You're right though, it hasn't greatly impacted my life or anything like that. It's just a great fucking story. AND THE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THE MOVIE WAS A GOOD IDEA SHOULD BE SHOT.

@TheManOfManyMen Жыл бұрын

Yeah the movie was not a good depiction at all. They should have done a TV series of one hour episodes showing different stories play out

@chaoswraith Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I still cannot believe they were handed this perfect for streaming episodic story book and went "lets make generic zombie movie #42069". What a damn shame and waste of potential

@declanrhodes538 11 ай бұрын

**SPOILERS AHEAD** i would argue that it has changed my life forever! some of these stories i will forever think about. blind japanese man in the wilderness? daughter who watches her parents fight about whether or not to eat human flesh? phalanx being viewed as a billionaire who profited off a lie? this book is definitely more than what it appears on the surface!

@WelloBello 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite part of WWZ is toward the end when they ramble about fictional diving suits for wayyyy longer than anyone asked them to.

@TheManOfManyMen 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha yeah!

@eggymayo3271 2 жыл бұрын

I felt the same as you. My wife asked how it was and I said it was terrible but I couldn't put it down. Lol it felt like the book version of candyfloss. I also thought the same as you about a TV show. Jus do a Netflix series with an episode on the best stories. Finally as a veteran some of the submarine and military details were scarily accurate, the guy had done serious research

@eggymayo3271 2 жыл бұрын

Also nice review

@TheManOfManyMen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! And that's wild that Brooks got a lot of the military details right.

@eggymayo3271 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheManOfManyMen you inspired me to Google him, he lectures at westpoint now, makes sense