You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
cdivish 's review for:
One of my favorite parts of World War z was the geopolitical storylines, which wasn’t a good fit in this story since it takes place only in the US. Otherwise this novel had a lot in common with any other zombie novel. Scrappy group of survivors thrown together to battle supernatural enemies bent on destroying them and no hope of help from the outside world. Only this was Sasquatch, not zombies, which somehow made it sillier.
I have no idea why one imaginary foe is terrifying and the other is silly, when they are both easily reduced to ridiculousness. But for me, zombies always seem allegorical, not true monsters, so battling our fellow man when rules are erased and resources are scarce is truly terrifying (in essence, what we may have to fear with climate change or some future anarchical state)
Versus battling Harry from “Harry and the Hendersons”, or an oversized, orangutan who would rather live peacefully in the woods eating fish and berries takes a lot more narrative work to get to the fear stage, which the author does . Sure, I wouldn’t want to go hand to hand with a great ape, but it seems that as a society we’ve got it handled.
At the end, I put aside my snickers and got into the battles and problems of surviving. I didn’t care for the main character at first, but she grew on me and since the battles are well done and the action gripping, I couldn’t put the book down, despite my imagining a completely different style monster than the author wanted.
I have no idea why one imaginary foe is terrifying and the other is silly, when they are both easily reduced to ridiculousness. But for me, zombies always seem allegorical, not true monsters, so battling our fellow man when rules are erased and resources are scarce is truly terrifying (in essence, what we may have to fear with climate change or some future anarchical state)
Versus battling Harry from “Harry and the Hendersons”, or an oversized, orangutan who would rather live peacefully in the woods eating fish and berries takes a lot more narrative work to get to the fear stage, which the author does . Sure, I wouldn’t want to go hand to hand with a great ape, but it seems that as a society we’ve got it handled.
At the end, I put aside my snickers and got into the battles and problems of surviving. I didn’t care for the main character at first, but she grew on me and since the battles are well done and the action gripping, I couldn’t put the book down, despite my imagining a completely different style monster than the author wanted.