World War Z is fuck awesome

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Fuckin' zombies, turning 90% of the world's population into the slavering undead. 

Is humanity just gonna give up and cower west of the Rockies for the end of days? 

NO!

Grab your Lobo (it's the one with the 8-inch steel spikes), suit up in your Kevlar-reinforced BDU, AND GET OUT THERE AND SLAG SOME ZACKS! THIS IS TOTAL WAR!

Sweep and clear the zombie menace door-to-door through cities and suburbia!



Fight underwater zombies with submersibles on the ocean floor!



Reclaim the catacombs of Paris!



See otaku band together on 2ch to take back Tokyo!



Firebomb the million-Zombie megaswarms that prowl the Great Plains from the Army's newly-formed dirigible squadrons!



BEST ZOMBIE ANYTHING EVER? SEEMS SO.

[Himu]

This sounds fucking awesome.

[Madrun Badrun]

Zombies are lame but I almost want to read it just for this "See otaku band together on 2ch to take back Tokyo!"

[Junpei the Tracer!]

Another book i gotta buy?

Damn Literature

[Ichirou]

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[Mupepe]

I would think Japan would be one of the countries with the least zombie problems since they cremate all their dead...

But they have no experience with these things.  Hardly any of them played Dead Rising 

[Ichirou]

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[Mupepe]

I would think Japan would be one of the countries with the least zombie problems since they cremate all their dead...

But they have no experience with these things.  Hardly any of them played Dead Rising 

Then the foreigners will have to save their asses!

It won't be the Chinese or Koreans!  It'll be people like Himuro who are obsessed with Japan.

[Himu]

I'm not obsessed with Japan!

[Mupepe]

I'm not obsessed with Japan!

[Mr. Gundam]

I read this book on the flight to Omaha for New Year's, great read, highly recommended. I think I got through it in three hours and then handed it off to my wife, who had been trying to read it over my shoulder the whole time.

I hope the people working on the film version do it justice.

edit: There's no way the Chinese will save their asses... read the book and find out why!

[Himu]

The Chinese eat the dead.

[Ichirou]

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[Himu]

Who doesn't like cute girls? 

[The Fake Shemp]

They're working on some film that's going to adapt from this and his earlier book, the Zombie Survival Guide (or something like that).

[Yeti]

I almost bought this today but it was expensive as hell. Is it going to come out on paperback anytime soon?

[Ichirou]

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[Himu]

Who doesn't like cute girls? 

What if she was an UNDEAD?!

Have you seen the dawn of the dead remake? Chain her to the bed.

[Madrun Badrun]

Who doesn't like cute girls? 

What if she was an UNDEAD?!

Have you seen the dawn of the dead remake? Chain her to the bed.

wait they chain zombie girls to beds and fuck them in that movie?  hot.

[The Fake Shemp]

Zombie chick even gives birth to a zombie baby!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

the rights went to Brad Pitt's agency, Plan B, for a rumored 7 figures. Totally worth it!

Also, the author is Mel Brooks' son. Oddly.

[Ichirou]

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[The Fake Shemp]

Also, the author is Mel Brooks' son. Oddly.

Yeah, but I hear his humor is nothing like his father's.  It's more of a Douglas Adams-type humor.

[Madrun Badrun]

Also, the author is Mel Brooks' son. Oddly.

Yeah, but I hear his humor is nothing like his father's.  It's more of a Douglas Adams-type humor.

I dont know what Mel Brooks humor is like but that can never be a bad thing. 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Yeah, the interesting thing about WWZ is it's hardly a comedy at all. An extremely dark satire, sure, but there aren't many "jokes" to speak of. The absurdity of taking a worldwide zombie invasion, sure, but that's all completely deadpan. The tone is closer to Children of Men than anything.

[Himu]

Mel Brooks?!

[The Fake Shemp]

Yeah, that's what I meant.  I hear he plays it straight, in a Douglas Adams-type way, where he writes it unflinchingly, but it's so over-the-top.

[Mr. Gundam]

They're working on some film that's going to adapt from this and his earlier book, the Zombie Survival Guide (or something like that).

But the thing is, World War Z would make an AWESOME Band of Brothers type mini series. I'm guessing we'll see nothing like that, but it would totally work.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

yeah, I hope they give it time to simmer and visit other countries and don't just turn it into "the tale of USA USA"

[Mr. Gundam]

yeah, I hope they give it time to simmer and visit other countries and don't just turn it into "the tale of USA USA"

I'd like to see more on Europe since it was barely included in the book. All the Asia stuff was awesome, though.

[Ichirou]

yeah, I hope they give it time to simmer and visit other countries and don't just turn it into "the tale of USA USA"

The thing that seems interesting about World War Z is the whole idea that it's a World War.  Focusing on just the USA would make it no different from any other zombie movie.

I haven't read the book, though, so I'm just going off of what you guys've said.

[Shuri]

That book is incredibly awesome and so realistic, I'm nearly done with it (thanks ecro!), its just so awesome

[ferrarimanf355]

the rights went to Brad Pitt's agency, Plan B, for a rumored 7 figures. Totally worth it!

Also, the author is Mel Brooks' son. Oddly.

How is that odd? I thought the book was good satire, and I'm the biggest fucking fan of Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles you'll ever find. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. 

[Mr. Gundam]

A film adaptation is due for release in 2008 after the rights were obtained by Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment, with the screenplay being written by J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame.

I hadn't heard about JMS being on board before.

[Shuri]

The fate of North Korean blew my mind. Also the intro that explains how it all began is the most realistic explanation ever for a zombie breakout ever. And i'm an expert on all things zombie.

WWZ is the best piece of zombiedom fiction ever made.

[The Fake Shemp]

I really love World War Z.

[Ichirou]

I need to read this.

[Yeti]

Same here. I think it might be out on paperback by now, I'll have to look into it.

[Mr. Gundam]

Same here. I think it might be out on paperback by now, I'll have to look into it.

October 16th

http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Z-History-Zombie/dp/0307346617/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2223562-4536024?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187040019&sr=8-1

Ichiro, I'd send you my copy in the package, but my loser friend lost it when he borrowed it.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

LIKE A ZOMBIE, RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995840.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) attached to direct. Seems like a really interesting choice, I am hyped for this movie!

[fistfulofmetal]

Really wondering what interviews they'll be taking to the movie.
I assume they'll have the Brooks talking to the people, then cut to the actual event in question.

If I had to pick, Yonkers is a no brainer, as is the blind Japanese dude. Gotta have the Merc who protects the celebrities. Oh and the female pilot who went down in a forest.

[Mr. Gundam]

Did anyone get the audiobook version? I hear it's different from the book.

[fistfulofmetal]

It's just abridged. The stories are the same, just doesn't have all of them.

[Oblivion]

Dang you're barely readin this?

edit: oh wait, didn't see this is more than a year old. ma bad.

[Eric P]

It's just abridged. The stories are the same, just doesn't have all of them.

really?  i need to get the book then

the audio book was so awesome

[drew]

thanks for the bump

i'll ask for this for my birthday

[Eel O'Brian]

i hated it

[Eric P]

i hated it

why?

i wish there was more of a look at the international situation, but i felt that the book dealt with more aspects of a zombie invasion than your average tale (such as the isreal infighting, pakistan/india, the zombies coming from the sea) and it did so in a really entertaining manner

[Eel O'Brian]

i thought he let his message overtake the story, sort of like romero nowadays

one of the reasons he gives for how easily the zombie plague spreads in america is that american society was too "war-weary" from middle eastern fighting

"gee, i'd really like to get behind this whole eradicating the flesh-eating zombies thing, but i just don't have it in me to fight another war"

really? really?  save the preaching for sunday, reverend

i liked the survival guide, though

book of the dead is a much better collection of zombie tales

[Eric P]

i thought he let his message overtake the story, sort of like romero nowadays

one of the reasons he gives for how easily the zombie plague spreads in america is that american society was too "war-weary" from middle eastern fighting

"gee, i'd really like to get behind this whole eradicating the flesh-eating zombies thing, but i just don't have it in me to fight another war"

really? really?  save the preaching for sunday, reverend

i liked the survival guide, though

book of the dead is a much better collection of zombie tales

i didn't catch that at all.  i caught that as one aspect of a reason for political laxity in the proper deployment of forces at the onset of the issue.

[chronovore]

I've had this on my shelf since it came out; big stupid hardcover which is hard to lug around or read on the train. Now f$cking Patel inspiring me to finally pick it up.

Man, I loves me some zombie fiction, and two peeps with whom my lit tastes seem to perfectly sync with are recommending this. JERKS!