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World War Z by Max Brooks
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really liked it
bookshelves: audiobooks, library-books, 2009, braaaains

ME JUST SIMPLE ZOMBIE BUT NO UNDERSTAND WHY LIVING SO PREJUDICED AGAINST DEAD TOLERATE SUCH HATEFUL BOOK BOOK PRESENT TOTAL ONE-SIDED CASE OF FAKE WAR MAN VERSUS ZOMBIES PORTRAYS ZOMBIES AS MINDLESS AND HAS NO COMPASSION FOR FEELINGS HOPES DREAMS DESIRES OF RECENTLY ALIVE LIKE SMELL THE PRETTY FLOWERS ON GRAVE AND WHERE DID LEG GO USED TO HAVE TWO AND WHAT DOES BRAIN TASTE LIKE SO SUE ME AM CURIOUS ANYWAY BOOK GOES AROUND WORLD SHOWING MAN FIGHT ZOMBIES AND ALL TIMES MAN EITHER KILL ZOMBIE WITH RELISH OR ZOMBIE EAT MAN WITH RELISH HA HA SMALL JOKE BUT SERIOUSLY SEEM RACIST THAT AUTHOR NO THINK MAN AND ZOMBIE CAN LIVE PEACE LIKE WHY NOT GIVE ZOMBIE JUST SMALL TASTE OF HUMAN AND ALL GO ABOUT BUSINESS BUT NO MUST BE KILL KILL KILL HUMAN SO SENSITIVE BITE HEAD ONE TIME AND THINK WANT EAT NOTHING BUT BRAINS NEWSFLASH BRAINS NOT ALL THAT TASTY CONCLUSION WHY OK TO MAKE WAR WITH ZOMBIES ZOMBIES NOT EXACTLY NAZIS EXCEPT ONE TIME
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Reading Progress

Finished Reading
November 10, 2009 – Shelved
February 16, 2010 – Shelved as: audiobooks
February 16, 2010 – Shelved as: library-books
April 6, 2012 – Shelved as: 2009
April 6, 2012 – Shelved as: braaaains

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Richard Mr. Zombie, couldn't you please write a review of World War Z? I'd love to hear about this from the POV of the recently reanimated.


Joel COME TO THINK YES WILL REVIEW BOOK SORRY NOT BOOK MORE LIKE RACIST POLEMIC AM ME RIGHT


message 3: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin Mr. Zombie-you have your cap lock key on. Also 50 year old rotting zombies would not run that fast in the snow-in fact would freeze them stiff! Ha! Little humor there.


message 4: by Joel (last edited Apr 06, 2012 12:59PM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel Noran wrote: "Mr. Zombie-you have your cap lock key on. Also 50 year old rotting zombies would not run that fast in the snow-in fact would freeze them stiff! Ha! Little humor there."

SIR ARE RACIST


message 5: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin I am a girl! I am not a racist-I am willing and able to kill any and zombies. Have you seen Saun of the Dead? They are trying to make a Lego set based on the movie-many zombies!


Joel Noran wrote: "I am not a racist-I am willing and able to kill any and zombies."

ONLY DIG HOLE DEEPER


message 7: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin For you my zombie fiend. If you were still living human, and a zombie-hungry zombie child wanted a bite of you--what would you do?


Nikoline Gosh, I like zombie Joel!


Joel Noran wrote: "For you my zombie fiend. If you were still living human, and a zombie-hungry zombie child wanted a bite of you--what would you do?"

ONLY HAVE ONE LEG NOW AM FINE ONE BITE NO BIG DEAL


Richard Joel wrote: "ONLY HAVE ONE LEG NOW AM FINE ONE BITE NO BIG DEAL"

But does your ideology have a leg to stand on? That's the important question here.


message 11: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin No you silly zombie-back you had two legs and could smell flowers, and not need Old Spice by the vat(like you do now). As a non-zombie-would you still advocate zombie rights? I guess we could clone humans to feed you.


message 12: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin Bravo Richard!!!!!


message 13: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel ALL AM SAYING PEOPLE HAVE PARTS DON'T REALLY NEED TWO ARMS TWO LEGS TWO EARS NOSE SHARE SHARE ALIKE


message 14: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin So you really do not need brains to feast on. So eat your own kind and we will eat our kind.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Review by Miss Karen...


message 15: by DMS (new)

DMS Zombies just want to be loved. Regrettably, trash propaganda like this reaches a far wider audience than the work of dedicated documentarists. I suppose hate will always be easier than understanding when it comes to complex interactions.


message 16: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel Noran wrote: "So eat your own kind and we will eat our kind."

AND SAY NOT RACIST SUPPOSE HAVE TO RIDE IN BACK OF BUS TOO


Richard @ Noran: Thanks!
@ Mr Zombie: ME TRY TALK YOUR WAY SO UNDERSTAND GOOD, OK? HUMANS NO LIKE BITE BITE BITE ALL TIME. NO BIG DEAL FOR YOU. BUT BIG BIG DEAL FOR HUMANS. NERVES TOO SENSITIVE. GET SICK WHEN LOSE BLOOD--SAME LIKE WHEN HUMANS CHOP ZOMBIES HEAD. UNDERSTAND NOW? FRIEND HAVE NICE CLONE IDEA. YOU TALK NICE NORAN, NORAN TALK NICE YOU. NO BITE NORAN, GET IT?


message 18: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel DMS wrote: "Zombies just want to be loved. Regrettably, trash propaganda like this reaches a far wider audience than the work of dedicated documentarists. I suppose hate will always be easier than understanding when it comes to complex interactions."

WORLD NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU COMPASSIONATE UNDERSTANDING DELICIOUS


message 19: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel ME TRY TALK YOUR WAY SO UNDERSTAND GOOD, OK? HUMANS NO LIKE BITE BITE BITE ALL TIME. NO BIG DEAL FOR YOU. BUT BIG BIG DEAL FOR HUMANS. NERVES TOO SENSITIVE."

HEAR THAT ME PLAYING SAD SONG ON WORLD'S TINIEST VIOLIN NO WAIT CAN'T ONLY FOUR FINGERS


Richard Joel wrote: "ME TRY TALK YOUR WAY SO UNDERSTAND GOOD, OK? HUMANS NO LIKE BITE BITE BITE ALL TIME. NO BIG DEAL FOR YOU. BUT BIG BIG DEAL FOR HUMANS. NERVES TOO SENSITIVE."

HEAR THAT ME PLAYING SAD SONG ON WORLD..."


Now you've got the idea. Stop the violins and be more peaceful!


message 21: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin Zombies have their own handicap access buses to use.
No back of bus--too hard for one legged 4 fingered zombie to walk that far. Well, we are at an impasse humans do not like bite bite bite, and zombies do not like shotgun hammer scythe.


message 22: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel SEPARATE BUT EQUAL THAT HILARIOUS NOW SEE CALIBER HUMANS AM DEALING WITH


message 23: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin Hey-you smell! so that why separate buses-missed the vat joke huh?!?!


message 24: by Joel (last edited Apr 06, 2012 10:19AM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel NOW DIFFERENT SMELL JUSTIFIES PREJUDICE OK NOW HAVE HEARD EVERYTHING NEXT TELL ZOMBIES GO BACK TO GRAVE BET WANT TO SEE OBAMA'S DEATH CERTIFICATE TOO


message 25: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin Do you have to eat humans? Humans do NOT eat zombies. Also, not different smell-rotting flesh smell. HUGE difference.


message 26: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel KNOW WHO NO LIKE TO BE EATEN COWS CHICKENS PIGS BUT PEOPLE NO CARE HAVE UNDERSTANDING THAT IF NOT TO BE EATEN WHY TASTE SO GOOD


message 27: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin Cannot you go vegan-like many humans I know. If vegans taste bad to you, I am a vegan too.


message 28: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel AM VEGAN NO EAT ANIMALS ONLY HUMANS


Maggie Ha ha ha! Love.


Jason Do you eat trolls? Especially the rude little ones?


message 31: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel ME EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DINER


Schawn schoepke Always best to chop zombie now feel bad, and discuss right and wrong after zombie in many parts.... :) Very willing then to have many sensitivity training sessions and be severally judged by living peers.


message 33: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel SERIOUSLY NO BELIEVE WHAT ME HEARING IT LIKE ZOMBIE RIGHTS MOVEMENT NEVER EVEN HAPPEN


message 34: by Noran (new)

Noran Miss Pumkin how about cow brains? Then we just share moo moos with you. Hey, I called Queen Liz-`she move you all to the Falkland Islands --free cruise for all. They have sheep/lambies.


Schawn schoepke The zombies never were a reliable voting delegation. I mean how many senators does it take to fill a zombie. Nobody knows they never stopped eating them.....


message 36: by Richard (last edited Apr 07, 2012 08:52AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Richard Jason wrote: "Do you eat trolls? Especially the rude little ones?"

Now I'm starting to piece together the backstory on this. Joel started out in life as a rude little troll, as stated in his profile. Then one day when he was minding his own business, eating a Billy Goat Gruff or a child who was not in school or something, he met a zombie who got too close to his bridge! Is that what happened to you, Joel?--I mean, Mr. Troll? Mr. Zombie? Now I understand why you have all this hurt, anger, frustration, emotional baggage, and deep-seated desire to eat humans. That's so sad! I think you should see a therapist.


message 37: by Slap Happy (new)

Slap Happy It's ok, Zombie. I felt the same way about the Star Wars prequels - that they had been lies comprised of fake information. Those false accounts were diseminated by resistance forces in a calculated maneuver to strategically undermine the Empire by tarnishing the badass, dark and mysterious reputation of one Darth Vader. Obviously, the boy from those false accounts could not have possibly grown up into that! But people are monsters, you know that. They will believe just about anything if it is presented to them in the right way. It's all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Keep fightiing the good fight. Stay strong, my brother.


message 38: by sologdin (new)

sologdin i've long thought that fascist misanthropy underlies the modern "brainless zombie" narrative. it lacks all sympathy with the diseased, &c., and recommends their casual extermination.


message 39: by Chris (new) - rated it 1 star

Chris Sims That's a run on sentence


message 40: by Joel (new) - rated it 4 stars

Joel sologdin wrote: "i've long thought that fascist misanthropy underlies the modern "brainless zombie" narrative. it lacks all sympathy with the diseased, &c., and recommends their casual extermination."

FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTAND ME PLIGHT


message 41: by Chris (new) - rated it 1 star

Chris Sims You wouldn't think you could write a boring book about a zombie war...but here we are


message 42: by Ross (new) - rated it 5 stars

Ross Regretfully, Mr. Zombie, living humans are more mobile and coordinated then you in your current state. This provides our kind with an unfair advantage, you see, so you can't force us to hear you out. Most of our kind quite dislike your kind because of their tendency to eat our kind. I believe that this impasse could be quite amiably negotiated if we could organize a H+Z summit in a neutral location. Perhaps we can make peace, finally, and END THE APOCALYPSE!


message 43: by NyLo (new) - rated it 4 stars

NyLo lol, apparently humans arn't meat. PS
wouldn't zombies be cannibals because they eat humans and they're technicaly part human
oh and

why do u alwayse use caps

its cool though; I like it


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