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Guerra Mundial Z: Una Historia Oral de la Guerra Zombie by Max Brooks

57 reviews

gr4cie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This is such an intriguing and new way to capture a zombie book. By having it as a documentary style, and gaining multiple peoples perspectives you get a full captured view of how this world works and how it was shaped. Absolutely draws you in and you won’t want to put it down. Keeps your attention at every turn 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mashtonok's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Abandonment, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bobosbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Zombie page turning enjoyable garbage  
Interesting format to follow a different character per chapter - but lacked depth. Fun spooky read for pleasure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

iono's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Cannibalism

Minor: Racism, Rape, and Xenophobia

julesfrigault's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Violence, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

elizakay's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Mental illness

amorphousbl0b's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Reading World War Z in 2024 is strange and beautiful because, on a much less catastrophic scale, we're now in a similar position to its narrators.

We have emerged on the other end of a devastating pandemic. It's not over, not really, the proverbial zombies do still bite people all the time, but that's just part of our way of life now. We all remember watching it grow in other countries and then reach our own shores, our calls to the government to take some action growing in intensity while they simply ignored the issue because doing nothing and assuring us things were going to be fine was easier to do in an election year. We all remember the sudden onset of panic when lockdown was declared, we remember the political pissing matches over whether these measures were necessary, and we remember the callousness of many who simply refused to take on their new civic responsibilities.
We were trapped inside for six months, a year, for some of us longer. We fell out of contact with friends, family, and the outside world at large. Sometimes we didn't leave our houses for weeks or months at a time. People began dying regardless. We all caught it, or at least know many, many people who caught it. Many of us know someone who died.
And then, suddenly, it was declared over. The vaccine worked! The zombies are gone! You can go back to work now! But people still die. The shape of our infrastructure is forever changed by the measures taken -- ordering groceries to be delivered is a great convenience born from necessity and no small amount of blood. We all lost a year of our lives. And we just live on regardless, because what are we gonna do? Just stop the economy from turning?

When the book was written, back in 2007, World War Z was painfully familiar with the fact that our lives in the West were somewhat insulated from the things that happen on the news. We rarely dealt with disease, with war, with governmental instability, with shortage. It meditates on 9/11 and the AIDS epidemic, moments when the American public was confronted with the fragility of its own security. And it meditates on our reactions before -- ignore, deny, shift the blame -- and after -- go on the attack, then go back to normal. Anything but substantive change.

Ain't that the truth.

I tried to read WWZ several years ago and bounced off. It was a little too dry for my teenage attention span. I think, in hindsight, that was a good thing. I'd never have appreciated then it as much as I can now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Self harm, Xenophobia, and Cannibalism

mauvenotebook's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Great book. Some of the characters were a little weak, and you can definitely tell it was written in 2006, but it still holds up really well.  The choice of format was very original, and I liked how he included characters from all over the world instead of focusing on the US and Western Europe like most zombie novels.

My favorite stories were the one about the Russian priest, the one about the downed pilot, the entire Todd Waino arc, and the one about Arthur Sinclair.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Suicide, Cannibalism, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

nyxonyxdust's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and War