'Buy it for yourself, your friends, put a copy next to your toilet. Brilliantly written, morbidly funny, completely convincing'

2008-08-07 Reading for the average Zombie?

I read this book before reading World War Z, that book is a very good horror story and I rather regret reading this book before the other since it added little to it and actually made some parts worse (the explanation of the Solan Virus). Skip this one and go straight to World War Z which is good.

This is a spin on survival guides. How to live in a Zombie infested world, and how to notice the first signs of an invasion of the living dead. Plus a little cronicle at the end covering zombie outbreaks.

On the whole a bland reading. It has its good bits and parts but never really gets going.

As a survival guide it is o.k. and has some clever observations and would be an excellent sourcebook for role play.

As an instruction on zombie behavior... not brilliant for a zombie is best not overexplained, similar as the Force in Star Wars - clever concept before the introduction of Midi-chlorians. And the part explaining the difference between regluar Solan Zombies and Tahitian would have been better omitted.

The last part of the book has to do with Zombie outbreaks and here the author could have tried a little harder with his background. Some of the stories are o.k. but many are not and all could have been better with a little more work. I am Icelandic and the part where Icelanders settled Greenland is clever but marred by details like very unicelandic names etc.

On the whole this book wasn't easy to complete, my interest in the book constanly lessened but a few highlights kept me going. It certainly is no book to rave about.