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A review by gardnerhere
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
4.0
There's an old AP prompt that reads: "A critic has said that one important measure of a superior work of literature is its ability to produce in the reader a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude."
Mark this one down as swimming in that "healthy confusion". This book, like it's protagonist, is a mess, but deliberately so. Joshua is an ineffectual turd who sows not only discord but destruction while still believing himself the hero of his own story, as one will. Truth be told, he's carpet-bombing the lives of everyone around him and offering no meaningful aid (beyond broken or soon-to-be broken promises). W's invasion of Iraq is the absurdist scrim against which the story is cast, and the explosion of horrific unintended consequences and collateral damage serves as Hemon's commentary. A good and perhaps fabulous book (I read this too fast to see all the pieces clicking together but not so fast as to not hear them clicking around me) that makes you feel awful about laughing and forces you to delight in how awful you feel.
Mark this one down as swimming in that "healthy confusion". This book, like it's protagonist, is a mess, but deliberately so. Joshua is an ineffectual turd who sows not only discord but destruction while still believing himself the hero of his own story, as one will. Truth be told, he's carpet-bombing the lives of everyone around him and offering no meaningful aid (beyond broken or soon-to-be broken promises). W's invasion of Iraq is the absurdist scrim against which the story is cast, and the explosion of horrific unintended consequences and collateral damage serves as Hemon's commentary. A good and perhaps fabulous book (I read this too fast to see all the pieces clicking together but not so fast as to not hear them clicking around me) that makes you feel awful about laughing and forces you to delight in how awful you feel.