I’ve decided to share my finds and the excellent reviews of my fellow book bloggers each Monday. Leave a comment with a link to your post or a trackback if you decide to play along.
The eleventh book to catch my eye is World War Z by Max Brooks, which was mentioned on LibraryThing.com (LT) by SpiralStar who has also posted an LT review for World War Z. In fact, there are a lot of reviews for this book and it’s pretty highly rated.
What caught my attention?
I’m not usually into zombie books as a genre, but I’m always intrigued when an author puts a new spin on a genre. This is not your average approach to zombies.
This book chronicles the events of a war between humanity and zombies, but in the form of interviews. Each interview focuses on a different aspect of the war - the initial discovery, the military response, the refugees, the relief to war-torn areas. Many different countries are represented, including Israel, the U.S., China, and Cuba; instead of focusing on a small group of similarly-oriented people, the reader is shown how almost the entire world reacts to this catastrophe.
SpiralStar mentions listening to this as an audiobook, which sounds like it would add to the book since it is based on character interviews. The broad scope that is covered is another thing that intrigues me about the premise. This book is reviewed by 91 people on LT and manages to rate a 4.23/5. That’s good enough for me to take a chance on it.
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My 21 year old son loved this book - maybe I should pick up his copy.
Hmmm… I’ve been seeing this book mentioned everywhere, but I wasn’t aware that it had an interview format. That is intriguing. Love the idea of listening to it on audio!
I agree 100% that listening to the audio version really enhances the read. Although I did like reading the actual book, when I listened to it on my MP3 I noticed alot more things that I missed while reading. And the fact that each interview in done by a differently accented character is really awesome!
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