World War Z

#1

one of the best books I have read in forever...

Basically, the background is there is a zombie uprising, beginning in china.

It becomes global... and after the war is back in favour of humanity, there is a Commission to draft the report of the war, for the UN.

The person in charge of the commission is responsible for the research necessary to put it together,..

the problem is there is no communication with the undead "side of the story" and gaps where the only testimony would have been from people who were killed, and returned as the unspeaking enemy.

the world goes through some shocking changes, and the war was declared a "Victory" some time ago, though zombies still exist, and there are extremely "Hot Zones" left where the outcome is still uncertain.

anyways, the testimony of these people the commission interviewed was stricken from the record, due to the shocking "human" element it exposed, which made the whole "ordeal" somewhat disturbing.

This book is those interviews.

we hear from the people who survived, througout the world
the human trafficker that smuggles the infected looking for a cure out of china
the americans who had to learn not every enemy can be "shocked and awed",
the survivors of the first nuclear exchange, between Iran and Pakistan,
the chinese who had to learn revolution begets revolution, and not all ailments can be cured with herbs,
the cubans who have to bear the burden of untold numbers of immigrants on makeshift rafts,
the japanese cybergeek who had to learn the hard way there is a world offline,
the riflemen in the trenches who sees the fall of New York at Yonkers,
the women in the skies led through the swamps after a crash lands her in Louisana, in a hot-zone,
the street soldier who is a crackshot on neighborhood watch rolling down the street in his wheelchair,
and the vice president who knew our first African American president better than anyone,
and many more...

and I still feel I haven't done this book justice...

(btw: x3n, this is the book I was talking about)

#2

Sounds awesome, I'll see if I can find an e-book to post for it...

#3

the website has some neat stuff on it... including audio exerpts on a map of the impact and a risk calculator that approximates your chance of survival, if you don't die in the original outbreak.

Even in a small group (2-10), I still have a 46% chance of prolonged survival. more if i go alone, and head to the appalacians the long way and down to florida, toward cuba... but i still think up to the north in the snow would be a better way, but i might not have to evacuate for a few years, if even...

check the site out and see what it offers:

including news Brad Pitt's Plan B Productions is casting a movie!!!

hopefully, it won't have Angelina Jolie in it. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />