Books!

I'm sure we all know the movie that stars our favorite actor that's not so young, Brad Pitt. In the movie he plays a retired UN ambassador Gerry Lane protecting his family as he flies over the slowly dying world to find a cure against the faster-than-a-cheetah zombies.

That however, is a very staunchly different version than the book version. I'm not sure if anyone knew that the book was a movie, but in fact it is. That's the book cover posted above.

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The book is a series of interviews that span the inception of the zombie war until the few years after the initial hysteria from members of several different nations. The book is sectioned off to cover each of these topics.

                                                 

The author of this narrative is Max Brooks, and he does a great job of weaving in the real concerns of what a global pandemonia such as a war against the undead would do to citizens of the world. The interviewees discuss suicide, combat morale, resource distribution, desertion, the small light of hope, and reclaiming the world that was lost. The characters also span the world from China, Japan, France, Barbados, Finland, the U.S., and the newly formed Holy Russian Empire. We are able as readers to merge the idea of a fictional villain into the fabric of our reality.

This is one of the few fantasy/science fiction books that have made me want to run through them as rampantly as I did. Given the format, it is hard to gain momentum in the book but once immersed, you devour your way through the book.

I guess I'm recommending books now also, so check this one out whenever you can. Here's an Honest Trailer of the movie if you'd like to see it spoofed.