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Zone One
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Don't believe the nags who say Whitehead over-writes or that Zone One is plotless: this is a rip-roaring, blood-curdling horror novel that will make you ache with laughter the one second and your toes curl the next.
Besides, one of the greatest features of the Kindle is the built-in dictionary, which means you don't you have to leave Post-it reminders all over pages to check out word meanings.
Zone One is also written in crystalline, incantatory prose so beautiful you will find yourself reading chunks of it aloud, just to taste the words. Even the gory bits. Of which there are many.
It also manages to do something new with the concept of the undead, which is hard to believe when it seems The Walking Dead has cornered the market on apocalyptic angst. Plus that ending -- so, so dark, and yet so sublime.
Besides, one of the greatest features of the Kindle is the built-in dictionary, which means you don't you have to leave Post-it reminders all over pages to check out word meanings.
Zone One is also written in crystalline, incantatory prose so beautiful you will find yourself reading chunks of it aloud, just to taste the words. Even the gory bits. Of which there are many.
It also manages to do something new with the concept of the undead, which is hard to believe when it seems The Walking Dead has cornered the market on apocalyptic angst. Plus that ending -- so, so dark, and yet so sublime.
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Started Reading
March 3, 2012
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March 3, 2012
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2012
March 3, 2012
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Finished Reading
July 15, 2013
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January 1, 2019
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horror-thriller-mystery
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Jan 27, 2020 10:03PM
I liked this novel. I have read it twice.
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Jennifer wrote: "I liked this novel. I have read it twice."I loved it as well, even moreso than The Underground Railroad. Lots of raised eyebrows about a 'literary' writer tackling a zombie end-of-the-world novel, like Kazuo Ishiguro raising the same eyebrows with his fantasy novel The Buried Giant.
