Max Brooks's Zombie Books?

I'm not sure I want to read another one.

I loved it. Played even more deadpan than the survival guide, this is the 'bleak american disaster survival story' I think that Spielberg was trying to do with War of the Worlds.

maybe in Polanski or Bergman movies, tho.

Odd aside: when I went looking for Z at the bookstore, their stocking system kept saying that it could be located in Horror or Current Events. Of course, the same store stocks Hodgeman's The Areas of My Expertise in Reference so maybe they're on to something.

Alan Alda as Arthur Sinclair
Carl Reiner as Jurgen Warbrunn
Jurgen Prochnow as Philip Adler
Waleed Zuiater as Saladin Kader
Dean Edwards as Joe Muhammad
Michelle Kholos as Jesika Hendricks
Maz Jobrani as Ahmed Farahnakian
Mark Hamill as Todd Wainio
Henry Rollins as T. Sean Collins
Eamonn Walker as David Allen Forbes
and Xolelwa Azania
Ajay Naidu as Ajay Shah
John Turturro as Seryosha Garcia Alvarez
Rob Reiner as "The Whacko"
Jay O'Sanders as Bob Archer
Dennis Boutsikaris as General Travis D'Ambrosia
Becky Ann Baker as Christina Eliopolis
Steve Park as Kwang Jingshu
Frank Kamai as Nury Televaldi and Tomonaga Ijiro
John McElroy as Ernesto Olguin
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i might wanna pick this up.

NOT REALLY SPOILERS BECAUSE THERE ARE ABOUT THIRTY INTERWEAVING NARRATIVES THROUGHOUT THE BOOK.

I quite liked reading how the US pulled itself back together, developed new weapons, started putting out propaganda films and how morale was more important for victory than anything else. Quite liked the Russian death squads too.

the preferred primary anti-zombie weapons are:

1) the M1 Carbine:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/M1_Carbine.jpg

2) the machete:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Machete_knife_blade.jpg

3) the Shuang Pian Yue Ya Chan: (the Shaolin Crescent Moon Shovel)

http://www.minifigcustomizationnetwork.com/files/sa_ch_sm.jpg

Anybody have one of these? I can legally own an M1 'cuz it's semi-automatic, right? One had best prepare for any eventuality.

for the first book

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html

Interview from Archaeology.com about a possible zombie outbreak in ancient Egypt.

did you get your m1?

Not yet. Too broke.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510XXFxXXGL._SS500_.jpg

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Romance-now-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347/

hey, howcum "all-new" is hyphenated and "bone crunching" not?

okay, zombies are officially played out

I wrote a review once of World War Z;

This book SEEMED really promising -- each chapter as a first-hand account from a different person regarding a zombie apocalypse. The guy, however, is simply not that good a writer. Each chapter felt more like an exercise from a creative writing seminar than an actual part of a book.

What really got me was when he discussed a character with situs inversus, a harmless condition wherein the position of one's internal organs is flipped, in the mirror image of a typical arrangement. He said the guy with situs inversus needed an organ transplant, and his hired mercenary had to hunt down someone else with the condition to kill him & harvest a rare mirror-image organ. Well, that isn't how situs inversus works at all. It's not like your organs are backward any more than it makes you eat through your anus and poop out your mouth.

So this book is supposed to be a well-researched oral history, albeit a fictional one about zombies. If you can't bother to look in a medical dictionary or even use google to learn about how a medical condition works, why should I trust you about how to avoid zombie death? I can't.

Yeah, the one pedantic nitpick put me off the entire book.