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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
informative
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
2.5 stars. Not the best graphic novel I've read. Naturally, it was more pictures than text, zombies not lending themselves to soliloquies. Still, I was expecting more depth than "people getting eaten through the ages". And it is a slim volume as well. It is strictly a companion piece to Max Brooks' other fine works.
This book was gifted to me by my Mom (Hi, Mom!) several birthdays ago.
I was never really in the mood to read it, but since I finished the second-to-last of the Walking Dead comics today and the last one is not iny possession yet, I decided to give it a go.
To some extent, this book was enjoyable. It gave some good survival tips (not just for a Zombie-Apocalypse, but in general) and it was easy to read.
The humor is debatable, depends on what kind of humor is your thing.
So theoretically, this is not a bad book.
But I couldn't help but feel that everything was repeated all the time.
There are three different sections that tell you about the perks and disadvantages of certain landscapes, instead of structuring it a different way, all we get is a "well, it seems like it's the same, but it isn't" when it sure as hell is.
And that got extremely tiring after the second time.
So, unfortunately, this was really not my thing.
I was never really in the mood to read it, but since I finished the second-to-last of the Walking Dead comics today and the last one is not iny possession yet, I decided to give it a go.
To some extent, this book was enjoyable. It gave some good survival tips (not just for a Zombie-Apocalypse, but in general) and it was easy to read.
The humor is debatable, depends on what kind of humor is your thing.
So theoretically, this is not a bad book.
But I couldn't help but feel that everything was repeated all the time.
There are three different sections that tell you about the perks and disadvantages of certain landscapes, instead of structuring it a different way, all we get is a "well, it seems like it's the same, but it isn't" when it sure as hell is.
And that got extremely tiring after the second time.
So, unfortunately, this was really not my thing.
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recroded Attacks
Author: Max Brooks and ibraim Roberson
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published In: New York
Date: 2009
Pgs: 144
REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
Summary:
The wars of survival that we are fighting against the zombie in the modern age are not the first plagues to sweep across Man. There have been recorded instances throughout history. They’re coming and they’re hungry. From the Stone Age to the Information Age, across African savannas, against Roman legions, and onboard sailing ships, civilizations have faced them. The darkness of today mirrors the past. The monster is rising. Shoot it in the head.
Genre:
Adventure
Alternate History
Apocalypse
Comics and graphic novels
End of the World
Fiction
Historical fiction
Horror
Science fiction
Zombies
Why this book:
Zombies plus Max Brooks equals me reading.
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The Feel:
Even with the differing format from novel to graphic novel, Brooks close and paranoid feel manages to communicate through Roberson’s excellent line drawings.
Favorite Scene:
When the caveman faces down the horde and discovers how to take down the rampaging dead and ends up as the subject of a cave painting showing the future viewer to fear the bite of the living dead.
Pacing:
The vignette stories are short and carry a pretty good punch. The pace is great.
Plot Holes/Out of Character:
The WW2 Japanese chapter and the USSR in the 60s chapter are too closely related to one another given the spread of the other stories in the book. Same stories could have been told with less direct connections, either that or had them be pieces of the same story instead of one after the other with a direct story connection.
Hmm Moments:
The “real” reason the ancient Egyptians removed the brains during their funerary rituals.
Hadrian’s Wall.
Are these conspiracy theories from a zombie plagued world? That would work since each fails to tell us where the disease came from, even though it is obviously the same disease. The modern world is necessary for it to become the rampant widespread disaster that it is in the modern zombie craze. The hordes couldn’t spread fast enough to devour everything. A modern interconnected world makes the disease spread faster.
Why isn’t there a screenplay?
Considering the little that WWZ had to do with Brook’s incredible book, I have no desire to see this translated.
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Last Page Sound:
Wish there was more.
Author Assessment:
I love Brooks and zombies.
Editorial Assessment:
My only quibble is regarding the WW2 Japan and USSR stories interconnectivity that I addressed elsewhere.
Knee Jerk Reaction:
glad I read it
Disposition of Book:
741.5973 BRO
Irving Public Library
South Campus
Irving, TX
Would recommend to:
genre fans
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Author: Max Brooks and ibraim Roberson
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published In: New York
Date: 2009
Pgs: 144
REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
Summary:
The wars of survival that we are fighting against the zombie in the modern age are not the first plagues to sweep across Man. There have been recorded instances throughout history. They’re coming and they’re hungry. From the Stone Age to the Information Age, across African savannas, against Roman legions, and onboard sailing ships, civilizations have faced them. The darkness of today mirrors the past. The monster is rising. Shoot it in the head.
Genre:
Adventure
Alternate History
Apocalypse
Comics and graphic novels
End of the World
Fiction
Historical fiction
Horror
Science fiction
Zombies
Why this book:
Zombies plus Max Brooks equals me reading.
______________________________________________________________________________
The Feel:
Even with the differing format from novel to graphic novel, Brooks close and paranoid feel manages to communicate through Roberson’s excellent line drawings.
Favorite Scene:
When the caveman faces down the horde and discovers how to take down the rampaging dead and ends up as the subject of a cave painting showing the future viewer to fear the bite of the living dead.
Pacing:
The vignette stories are short and carry a pretty good punch. The pace is great.
Plot Holes/Out of Character:
The WW2 Japanese chapter and the USSR in the 60s chapter are too closely related to one another given the spread of the other stories in the book. Same stories could have been told with less direct connections, either that or had them be pieces of the same story instead of one after the other with a direct story connection.
Hmm Moments:
The “real” reason the ancient Egyptians removed the brains during their funerary rituals.
Hadrian’s Wall.
Are these conspiracy theories from a zombie plagued world? That would work since each fails to tell us where the disease came from, even though it is obviously the same disease. The modern world is necessary for it to become the rampant widespread disaster that it is in the modern zombie craze. The hordes couldn’t spread fast enough to devour everything. A modern interconnected world makes the disease spread faster.
Why isn’t there a screenplay?
Considering the little that WWZ had to do with Brook’s incredible book, I have no desire to see this translated.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Last Page Sound:
Wish there was more.
Author Assessment:
I love Brooks and zombies.
Editorial Assessment:
My only quibble is regarding the WW2 Japan and USSR stories interconnectivity that I addressed elsewhere.
Knee Jerk Reaction:
glad I read it
Disposition of Book:
741.5973 BRO
Irving Public Library
South Campus
Irving, TX
Would recommend to:
genre fans
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I might have found this interesting if I'd read it after reading Brooks' wonderful World War Z, but I couldn't even get through it. I thought it would be funny, but what I saw seemed generally straightforward, like a real book really designed to help protect you from zombies.
If I still had this book now, I would give it another shot, since in the context of WWZ it might work better, but on its own, it's only for fans of survival manuals.
If I still had this book now, I would give it another shot, since in the context of WWZ it might work better, but on its own, it's only for fans of survival manuals.
adventurous
informative
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I am an absolute die-hard zombie fan and I loved this book.
It's humorous at times but also very serious and logical.
After reading this book, I definitely watch zombie movies and shows where I just think the characters are going about surviving all wrong.
Brooks did a wonderful job thinking through tactics to survive a zombie apocalypse, and if one were to ever occur, this would be my go-to reference material.
It's humorous at times but also very serious and logical.
After reading this book, I definitely watch zombie movies and shows where I just think the characters are going about surviving all wrong.
Brooks did a wonderful job thinking through tactics to survive a zombie apocalypse, and if one were to ever occur, this would be my go-to reference material.
This book is great! You start reading it because it sounds fun, but now that it's finished, you want to go stock weapons, survival gear and go scouting for a safe location to build a base.
This book was fun to read. I'm a huge fan of zombies, so I was thrilled when my mom got this for me for Christmas. It was definitely interesting to see what Max came up with in terms of zombie protection, and it gave me some good ideas and inspiration for a story that I've been meaning to write. The recorded attacks were interesting, but I felt they lacked variety, and were, consequently, boring after the first few "government cover-up" stories. Max also tends to contradict himself - he spends the first several pages telling us that zombies can't climb and getting to the top of a building will be a safe bet and then, several pages later, he says that staying on a boat would be okay as long as you watch the anchor so zombies on the ocean floor don't climb up it. Er, so they can climb and they can't climb, apparently. These contradictions made it unbelievable as an actual guide, and while it's obviously meant to be humorous, it would have held more sway if I felt like his arguments and ideas were actually applicable.
I've seen a lot of debate regarding whether or not it can be considered humor or horror. I think it's a little bit of both. The suggestions and the idea is obviously humorous, but the fact that he makes it fairly believable that something like this could happen, coupled with my already present love for zombies, adds that touch of horror to it.
I've seen a lot of debate regarding whether or not it can be considered humor or horror. I think it's a little bit of both. The suggestions and the idea is obviously humorous, but the fact that he makes it fairly believable that something like this could happen, coupled with my already present love for zombies, adds that touch of horror to it.