A review by thegothiclibrary
The Living Dead by George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus

2.0

The Living Dead is a massive book, split into three acts of unequal length. The majority of the book is taken up with Act One, which covers the first two weeks of the zombie apocalypse. Jumping around to different points of view, we see Etta Hoffman, the antisocial statistician who documents cases of the dead coming back to life; medical examiner Luis Acocella and his assistant Charlie, who witness the very first revival; Greer, an underprivileged teenager who must team up with strangers to fight her way past undead friends and family; the staff of WWN, a newsroom that continues to broadcast amidst the outbreak; and the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Olympia, who devolve into perverse power structures as the zombies take the ship. In Act Two, we flash through eleven years from the perspective of Hoffman as she collects testimony from survivors across the country through her improvised post-apocalyptic hotline. Act Three covers the attempts of the survivors to build a new society and learn to live alongside their zombie brethren.

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