World War Z - Max Brooks

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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

My Thoughts: I love Max Brooks' ability to slip effortlessly into the minds of different characters in different situations with different narrative styles. An addictive and easy-to-read thriller that definitely deserves it's place on the big screen. Let's just hope that this is one of those rare occasions in which the film does the book justice.

I RATED THIS 10/10