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With the Civil War outcome hanging in the balance, Jax must participate in a daring mission by going to a slave plantation with Amaya. Meanwhile, Sara begins to feel the burden of the decisions she has to make as the leader, and Ray struggles to find his purpose on the team. Best episode of the show to this point and Jefferson Jackson is the star.

I have never been emotionally touched by this show previously, except during the death of Snart. This episode however took me down the feels-train. The scene when Jefferson was talking to the slaves and when they started to sing was an emotional punch in my face, unlike the rest of the show. Don't get me wrong, I do like Legends, but this episode was something special. The zombies were great and the episode was really well balanced with talking, fighting and character development. Overall a great episode and I really look forward to the rest of the season.

Enjoy a night in with these popular movies available to stream now with Prime Video. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! They certainly borrowed aspects from the book, but really the movie should be considered a completely different entity. The zombies in Brooks book are the George Romero lurching, yucky living dead.

In the movie, they are super charged, fast moving, aggressive, nasty creatures. The virus in the movie is fast acting. Someone bitten is transformed within seconds. In the book, the virus takes much longer to take effect. Did it bother me that the director Marc Forster took such liberties? Not one bite bit.

I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I was thoroughly entertained. I certainly intend to watch the movie again. So read the book to discover new depths to an overly exploited genre, and watch the movie to experience a whirlwind of fear and dread. Just a suggestion, have someone else hold the popcorn. If you wish to see more of my most recent book and movie reviews, visit http: View all 25 comments.

Jun 12, Rebecca DeLaTorre rated it did not like it. I just can't get on this bandwagon. The pseudo-government reports the book is written in handicap it in many ways. First, there are no protagonists to grow with, no story arc, no climax, etc. You know what's going to happen from day one--there was a world crisis involving zombies and at least some people live to tell the tale.

The sure knowledge of the outcome deflates any tension and book feels flacid. The pseudo-scientific jargon is a poor imitation my sister, a nurse, tossed aside Brooks' o I just can't get on this bandwagon. The pseudo-scientific jargon is a poor imitation my sister, a nurse, tossed aside Brooks' other Zombie manfesto in disgust within the first few pages and this one fairs no better and there are far too many emotional pauses and descriptive introductions for what amounts to an addendum to a government study of events.

The thing that put me over the edge with this book is the inconsistency--one chapter has a boy with bloody knuckles sliding his hands about in zombie goo and remaining uninfected and in the next chapter there is an expression of gratitutde that no one exposed to detrius from a headshot has open wounds to be infected through. What editor let that get by? On top of that, racial, national stereotypes abound and are crude and unappealing. Brooks is obviously a big fan of Israel, as they are the heroes of the day, even going so far as to selflessly save Palestinian refugees yeah, right and remnants of South Africa's apartheid system are given a reprieve due to their pragmatism.

Russians are wacky comrades, Chinamen are inscrutable and Americans are cowboys weakened by education and consumerism. I won't recommend this book to anyone, even a die hard zombie fan, lest World War Z ruin the genre for them forever. View all 21 comments. Oct 27, karen rated it liked it Shelves: Everyone and their dog. See end of review for movie review. I've broken my cardinal rule for reading books just before the movie comes out. This rule I've alluded to is the following - I don't read the book directly before the movie at least 1 year before or it must be read after or just wait on the movies.

The reason for this is that I want to enjoy the story through both mediums and if you read the book just before the movie, you've set yourself up to be a critic - analyzing everything and complaining about Update: The reason for this is that I want to enjoy the story through both mediums and if you read the book just before the movie, you've set yourself up to be a critic - analyzing everything and complaining about every detail that's inevitably left out, but which is more often than not necessary for the medium.

If you read the book at least a year before, at least with my shoddy memory, the movie becomes a happy time of fond remembrances. Oh yeah, I remember that part, so cool! In this instance, I hear the movie doesn't quite follow the book exactly and what else can that mean than that it's a typical zombie movie. I don't think I've ruined much here.

You know, it could have been partly because of all the hype, but I didn't love this book. I didn't hate it either, which makes these the hardest reviews to write, but I think I have a few ideas why World War Z just didn't work all that well for me. I'm studying for the bar at the moment, so you get an extremely well-organized review at least with headings aplenty since that's how my brain is thinking at the moment.

The Plot Doesn't really exist. Yeah, there's a loose series of events that defines the book, or the Zombie War, but it's told through interviews with different survivors from different countries. And they're short too, I even checked this with the book paper-form. Each interview amounts to a page or two, maybe 5 max. Each tends to discuss a certain important event, which ends up getting referred to by characters later in the book and often mentioned by the one directly following. It's extremely clever and lets you see how well developed this whole idea is.

It's extremely clever Max Brooks has literally thought of everything when it comes to a war against zombies. I thought the same in my reading of The Zombie Survival Guide , and it goes just as well here. He goes into why tanks are all but useless against hordes of zombies - because you have to take out their heads! Anything else, and they'll still shamble and probably even become more dangerous when you trip over them on the ground. The airforce is just as useless because it's so much money and effort for such a little amount of good.

Better spent on a bunch of soldiers with tons of amo. He even goes into better strategies for fighting this war, why the zombies are such a good enemy - because they don't need to be bred, fed, or led as I'll let the book explain. Very clever and not even pretentious about it. And this isn't the only thing I liked although we're getting into the middle ground because I didn't love the audio either. The Audio One of the things that got me excited to listen to this on audio was that it's read by a full cast. That means they're trying REALLY hard and that tends to be a good thing, especially if you don't like one or two of the voices, it's okay, it's only temporary.

With just one narrator, that can really kill a book. I mentioned that this is told through many different people in different countries and they have actors like Rob Reiner and John Turturro.

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Even Max Brooks himself plays the part of the interviewer. There are so many different countries represented that the accents started to distract heavily from the story. I found myself pondering why the German guy had such a heavy accent on his "R's" and yet could perfectly pronounce "TH" every time. And this was just the one guy. One of the benefits of a single narrator is that even when they do an accent, it's easier to understand because English is their primary language. The audio's great for the most part, outside of that little niggle about the accents, but one thing I absolutely HATE about it is Abridged I would probably never forgive myself if I listened to this abridged audio version and never actually read the entire book if I actually thought that mattered.

Maybe others are better sleuths than myself, but I can't find a reading of World War Z that's not abridged. At the same, after having read the book, the abridged version seems to do enough justice to the entirety of the novel, what with how it is organized, that it just cuts out a few of the interviews. Normally this is heresy, but I can live with it for this one time only. What I didn't like I think the thing that just makes this an okay to good book for me is that while it's style and organization is unique and highly clever, it also takes away from my ability to care.

Without just following one person or a group of people, there's no attachment to any specific person. The Movie Brad Pitt will make everything better. After writing the above, I actually do think the movie will make it all better. It seems like it will be following one single person and that's what this reader needs. Movie's set for a June release. Here's the trailer too.

In the end in the sense of my final feelings not any post-apocalyptic sense Let's just say, if we ever do get into a Zombie War, you better have a copy of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide on you. Someone's already gone through the effort of thinking up EVERY situation that can occur, what's effective, what's not and put it down in words. No sense reinventing the wheel. While an entertaining idea and clever execution, these were the exact things that made World War Z a book I could never love.

It's worth a read if only to see how in-depth you have not thought about zombies. I'm happy to say I called it correctly. I enjoyed the movie much more than the book even though you can really only say the movie is a loose adaptation if you can even say that.

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I thought it was much better to visit all those countries through the single character of the UN agent as opposed to interviews of random characters. I felt for him trying to protect his family, I rooted for him when he was in danger, and it had the same effect of exploring the reaction of different cultures to a much smaller degree of course. And it actually scared me, which for a zombie book, was completely lacking in WWZ.

View all 35 comments. Aug 02, John Wiswell rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Sci fi readers, horror readers, fans of oral history. There are reasons to be wary of this book. Hell, he's the son of legendary comedy director Mel Brooks. And zombies are creatures that gained popularity thanks to film, which is contrary to the nature of most good creatures. Vampires, ghosts, wizards, witches, dragons, orcs, goblins, angels, werewolves and even Frankenstein's undead abomination came from literature first, and entered film later.

Film seldom c There are reasons to be wary of this book. Film seldom contributes originality to prose. Fortunately Max Brooks pulled off a minor miracle in adapting the largely theatrical terror into the written word, by use of the literary apocalypse convention and oral stories. Our familiarity with the outlines of a zombie outbreak or any plague outbreak from so many films helps fill in the gaps between his various storytellers' accounts. Brooks has a remarkable sense of voice, and places the various interviewees well, such that they sound all the more distinct in contrast to the preceeding and following speaker.

We get a lot of interesting subjects, from the country doctor in China who treated the first "bite," to a hitman hired to protect a millionaire mogul, to a blind man who somehow managed to survive in the most infested parts of Japan - Hiroshima. Thus we also get a total sense of the rise and fall of the outbreak, with each arc illustrated by brilliant personal narratives of "true" stories from those periods that give us a sense of not just the plot, but how culture changed in this fictional earth.

The narrative is unified by the interviewer who visits them and directs parts of their story, but only enough so that we can both enjoy the overarching plot and the survivors' stories. Like the best science fiction the outlandish premise allows us to get a fresh view of real human issues. Brooks approaches such issues on multiple levels, from simple human interests like base selfishness and how we act in desperation, to political crises, such as early on in the book when the Israelis and Palestinians blame each other for the plague, and even claim it is a hoax perpetrated by their enemies.

Many of the characters are inspired by people from real life, like Howard Dean, Karl Rove and Nelson Mandela - but rather than coming off as cheesy, they lend an air of authenticity to the tale. The quality of Brooks's book was totally unexpected. This was supposed to be a spin-off from an impulse-buy. But by the time you finish World War Z I think you'll hope along with me that this, his first work of fiction, won't be his last. View all 9 comments. Jun 27, Alex Duncan rated it did not like it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book is not a novel.

You learn very little about the characters even the narrator and cannot follow them from story to story. There's no common thread, no arc, etc. For many of you, this is all you need to know about this book. A Zombie Novel I suppose there are parallels between the book and the movie in the sense that both are disjointed. It's too big a story to tell and to be done properly Brooks shoul This book is not a novel. It's too big a story to tell and to be done properly Brooks should have written a door stopper of a novel.

That said, he did piece together an interesting scenario: This aspect is shown at the end of the film, as they elude to the inevitable sequel, and it's actually the most interesting part of the book, that is: Call me crazy, but if you drop a big 'ole bomb on a zombie hord there aren't going to be many "walking" dead around after that.

I suppose this book's format will appeal to some people, as many seem to be OK with what he's done, but it's such a huge disappointment when you were expecting a novel and don't get one. The book actually has a decent start with the story of patient zero and the images of zombies grabbing ankles from beneath the depths of a flooded city, but it goes downhill quickly from there.

It's really a chore to read because the stories are so short that they don't allow you to connect with the characters. I have a feeling if Brooks hadn't had so much success with his Zombie Survival Guide that publishers would have turned their nose up at the structure of this book and made him rewrite it. At the same time, Brooks and his publisher have made quit a bit of coin on this one so who can blame them? Some stories provide enough detail to suck you in and get good that is just before the end on you abruptly , but others are what I call Brooks' bastards because he gives them so little attention you wonder why they are in there at all.

There's also one story that despite being long is incredibly boring about a stolen Chinese submarine that takes up enough pages to account for several other stories. Definitely an err in judgment there. With no one to root for and no characters to follow, you'll find yourself not caring whether you open the book back up or not.

To me, this is the ultimate sin any book can commit. To call this the best zombie book ever written, etc. If any of what I'm saying is speaking to you I wouldn't spend your money on the book as it will surely disappoint. View all 37 comments. I found it horribly boring and not even a tiny bit scary. I agree with your review, and it took me Novel.

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I agree with your review, and it took me close to a month to read it because I too felt no compulsion to keep reading. Shane Kenyon I like to read just about anything imaginable. This style of story writing is not necessarily the best, but I still think that it was done well. It is I like to read just about anything imaginable. It is very reminiscent of Dracula. To me it is not much different than a point of view style. We were able to see the war from many different angles all over the world and I thought that it was an enjoyable way of seeing more perspective.

Even if this came at the cost of individual character development. Feb 15, mark monday rated it really liked it Shelves: On the menu tonight: Fresh kill will never appear so carefully arranged and presented: Appetizer A surprisingly hearty summer soup: You will literally gasp in amazement as the flavors you thought had come and passed during the colder months rise again to challenge your taste buds! The stew contains a veritable global village of ingredients: Instead we offer as the centerpiece of our prix fixe meal an array of delights that appease not the base emotional senses, but the higher appetites of the intellect!

Never fear, diner, your hunger will be truly satiated — but only if you are able to cast aside your yearnings for an old fashioned cheeseburger and partake in a less sensual but perhaps more fulfilling menu. To that end, we offer a buffet of international flavors: I Am the Decider! Dessert For our last dish, we offer you this stunning plate: View all 27 comments. Nov 10, unknown rated it really liked it Shelves: View all 44 comments.

Apr 04, Rebecca McNutt rated it did not like it Shelves: Never judge a book by its cover, especially if its cover looks too good to be true - I learned that the hard way after spending money on a new copy of World War Z. The title "World War Z" was cool as heck, the cover had a decayed, vintage kind of look and it said it was about zombies, and since I was a fan of Romero's Living Dead film trilogy, I figured this could be a really exciting book. World War Z was mostly just ranting and rambling, a sea of unnecessary gore and a lot of chopp Never judge a book by its cover, especially if its cover looks too good to be true - I learned that the hard way after spending money on a new copy of World War Z.

World War Z was mostly just ranting and rambling, a sea of unnecessary gore and a lot of choppy filler. To be frank, it was really boring; I felt like the living dead after reading it. Unfortunately the zombie subgenre, which used to be cool, has become a recent trend among media thanks to that The Walking Dead show on television, so now zombies are just a cliche fad.

Jun 05, Fabian rated it really liked it. Having just read the most literary of all zombie novels makes one thing clear: But that doesn't make the effort any less outstanding, unique, or outrageous. We get accounts all the way from the very heights of the social echelons Veep, Ar Having just read the most literary of all zombie novels makes one thing clear: We get accounts all the way from the very heights of the social echelons Veep, Army generals There is a type of reader out there for this type of narrative.

They will adore the militaristic accounts-- though, admittedly, not my cup of tea. But the additions to zombie lore are awesome! View all 4 comments. Sep 14, Raeleen Lemay rated it it was ok Shelves: Going into this, I knew it wouldn't be full of action. I feel like I didn't learn much about the zombies that supposedly overtook the world, and what I did learn made little sense. Near the beginning of the book, somebody mentions how the zombies are extremely fast, and for the rest of the book they're described as being very slow-moving I was also hoping for more civilian accounts of the zombie war, but unfortunately m Going into this, I knew it wouldn't be full of action.

I was also hoping for more civilian accounts of the zombie war, but unfortunately most of the people who spoke were either in the military, or were scientists or something of that nature. So they kind of just talked about the military aspects of the war, and while that may be really exciting for some people to read about, it just wasn't for me. I also find it difficult to enjoy a book when the whole time you know how it ends as this takes place AFTER the war is over.

I wouldn't say this is a bad book, but it just wasn't really enjoyable for me personally. I listened to this on audiobook, which was a really cool way to experience this book. Oct 22, carol. Not at all the typical zombie book, and not at all what I expected. Published in , the issues and underlying plot points are as pertinent today as then.

What would happen in a real zombie apocalypse? Given current politics, economics, cultural trends, and geography, I'd be willing to bet it happens closely to Brooks' vision. World War Z is structured along the lines of a documentary, a collection of remembrances about the world-wide zombie war. Divided by ch Thoughtful and thought-provoking. Divided by chronological order, one can get the feel of the evolution from chapter headings: His tale lures the reader in, giving an intimate view of the initial confusion, the fear, the drastic response by the state, and the systemic holes that lead to ultimate break down.

From there, the interviewer talks to a human smuggler in Tibet, drug war agents in Greece, a black-market surgeon in Brazil, a laborer from South Africa, a member of Israeli intelligence, and a repatrioted Palestinian. It's a brilliant idea for a narrative about a global issue, because each culture group frames the problem in terms of its own narrow focus how could it not? And, unfortunately, the degree to which personal selfishness, both altruistic saving loved ones and greedy, pave the way for worsening disaster. Further interviews include the ordinary survivor who was anything but , soldiers, an astronaut, and various government officials including the vice-president and a diplomat.

It makes for an extremely interesting analysis, because it covers both the personal, private story and the larger, world arc. Ultimately, it was a sobering and satisfying commentary on humanity and the current state of the world. While that sounds potentially dull and analytical, structuring the story around a zombie war is frosting on the vegan cupcake.

While it possibly could have been as strong of a narrative if Brooks was imagining a virulent and lethal virus, zombies gave it a flash factor that draws dystopia fans in. Besides, reanimated dead do create challenges of their own that would be unique in warfare. One general talks about how traditional warfare centers around people that are "bred, led and fed. Underwater environments prove to be the long-term zombie reservoir, presenting unique challenges to world-wide eradication.

Minor quibbles include a lack of some of the science behind the outbreak, as well as that of the lone survivors. And, while it is a thought-provoking story over all, it's not exactly a gripping one that kept me up at night. That's actually okay, as it proved more satisfying in the long run. Just temper your expectations. In some ways, this was the complete antithesis of Zone One , review: This looks at zombie wars through multiple viewpoints on a world-wide scale, and it's ultimate message is hope with cost.

I highly recommend to zombie or science-dabbling fans. View all 24 comments. To everything there is a time - a time to reap and a time to plant, a time to listen to Schoenberg and a time to listen to Lez Zeppelin, the all-girl tribute band, a time to read Marcel Proust and a time to read about zombie apocalypses. That time, for me, passed some years ago. I shouldn't've picked up this novel but I was seduced by shedloads of great reviews on this very site. Although my copy has a front-cover blurb by Simon Pegg, it's his very own great little zom-romcom Sh update Every scene in this book we've seen or read several times before, and alas, mostly by less truthful writers.

This is really an excellent novel, but for younger readers who haven't already slogged, as I have, through a lifetime of pulp. Brooks's imagination is tough and unflinching, but you have to concede that zombie apocalypses bring out the macho in pretty much everybody. This really is a war book, chock full of pumped-up acronym-heavy military jargon. I think my 15 year old self would have rated this one four fat ones but that guy didn't have the best taste really. Me and Georgia love that stuff. Gwan, destroy the world again View all 12 comments. I said it and I accept it.

Because the majority of my friends really, really loved this book. And I fear they will reject me now that they know that it did little to nothing for me. I shall have to sit alone in the library, other readers keeping a wide berth for fear of contagion, but I cannot tell a lie and I stand by my pronouncement: In the past, I have ripped into books I disliked with a gleeful, almost mania I have biblio-cooties. In the past, I have ripped into books I disliked with a gleeful, almost maniacal abandon, and so there are some who may suspect that I will do so here.

But this is an entirely different case, for World War Z 's fault is not that it's a bad book. It's well-written, it's got an intriguing conceit the tale of the zombie apocalypse told in journalistic hindsight from the perspective of those who survived , and some imaginative scenarios sure, we've all thought about zombies on land, but what about zombies underwater?