Review: World War Z (Max Brooks)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A good enough book. It's mostly interesting because of the thinking that was put into all the different situations that would realistically arise from a zombie apocalypse. But some (not all, really, just a few) of its 'interviews' or short stories are well written and interesting. Still, it didn't manage to move me much.
It really shouldn't be read as a novel, it's more of a series of vignettes or short stories of varying importance and quality.
It's worth the read as entertainment but it's nothing life-changing, and it just sort of ends. It would have benefited by a tighter manuscript and trimming some of the less interesting and poignant stories.

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