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We have a short update today. It's another edition of Nathan Libecap's "Things I Think Will Be Cool/Suck...Today's entry falls under the "cool" column. Nathan actually submitted this entry a couple weeks ago with his comic review, but since it doesn't exactly fit the criteria for a comic book, I decided to put it here....enjoy.
"Thing I Think Will Be Cool" ( Or For My Purposes, already are -Jon)
by Nathan Libecap
"World War Z"
by Max Brooks
Remember the "Zombie Survival Guide"? Well, that book's author, Max Brooks, has returned to pen another great book about my favorite end times scenario. Yes, boys an' girls, in this book Jesus (everyone's favorite living dead guy) returns just like he said he would and collects all the money that's been collected for him since he left and buys a great big mansion in a gated community in Dallas, TX just like it says in the Bible, thus setting off one of the biggest housing crisis ever, causing everyone to...no wait, that's not this book. In THIS book Mr. Brooks (son of Mel) writes a book that is actually creepy, tense and more realistic than any zombie movie made since "Shaun of the Dead." Can you imagine, a BOOK that's actually creepy?
The book is written in a Studs Turkle style where several dozen characters give first person accounts of what "World War Z" was like where they were. From soldiers to doctors to children, each story adds another layer to what eventually becomes a well fleshed out vision of a world wide zombie outbreak.
Where as most zombie movies show one specific area (the mall, some city, another mall but only this time populated by stupid people that are really pretty), this book takes you all over the world from China to Canada. While the book starts off slow, it picks up speed with every entry you read. (Go back and read that line with "I got keys coming from over seas" in mind. Cool huh?) Soon you'll find that you have to read just one more account before you can put it down and before you know it, you're cutting into sleeping time that you're really going to regret not getting, right after your lunch break tomorrow. You can probably find the book at any bookstore, but if you have a Barnes and Noble near by, you can get it for 20% (off ?). You won't be dissapointed. Unless you need pictures in books. Then you might be disappointed. Because this book doesn't contain any pictures.
editor's note: Did Mr. Libecap just quote Big Syke from "All Eyez On Me" in a review of a book about Zombies? Wow. Leave it to Nate to surprise me.
Chad Vader
