Reviews tagging 'Death'

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

54 reviews

karina5162's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Super compelling, please tell me more about countries other than America though. 
Also if you're going to read it, go for the audiobook, it is maybe one of the best-produced audiobooks I've ever listened to. Enough so that I read a zombie book. And I hate zombies. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Violence

eliaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Antisemitism, and Suicide attempt

crusoe's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Positives. World War Z is a brilliant piece of speculative fiction that realistically explores how a war on zombies (or any major world war for that matter) functions. The interviews with different individuals who survived the war feel extremely realistic, from their different approaches to the war rooted in their culture and personal experience, to the easy ways in which they talk about their expertise. It is fantastically written and showcases every angle and emotion you might find in a war like this without getting lost in the detail.

Dislikes. Many characters are introduced throughout the interviews and at the end, when they are revisited, this makes it harder to keep track whose story is being continued. Other than that, no notes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mjones14's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

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

3.75

Really though I was going to like this more than I did. I think all in all the film is better than the book, but I presume this is because I don't read much nonfiction which this is in the style of. Beautiful world building though and impressive in its global scope

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, and Alcohol

sydneyo_0's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective 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

There is a movie based off of this book and if you've seen the movie first it's okay, you haven't been spoiled for anything. This book has an interesting, and I believe, realistic take on how the world would react to a Zombie Apocolypse. How each country would react, what nations were more likely to pull through mostly intact and why, and how Nations would interact with each other during a crisis. Not to mention touching upon politics

and how information gets passed along the chain of command, or just flat out ignored and tossed aside

. It's a series of interviews taking place years after the end of World War Z, with survivours from all around the world and all different walks of life. Some of the stories are horrifying and some make you wonder if you would have done the same thing to survive if you had been in their situation. 

This may end up becoming one of my new favourite novels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death and Cannibalism

oakdogs's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Minor: Cannibalism

retswerb's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-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

3.0

It's nice to have an audiobook with such a wide variety of readers. Most of the readers are great, a few mediocre. 

I found a lot to like in the book, but the lack of characters to follow really made the read drag for me. Just when you get attached to a character the narrative switches to someone else and doesn't return. 

Various characters express casual racism / bias in their narratives. While it is written to fit with the characters, I found the overall result a bit distasteful as words written by a white man, put in the mouths of characters from a variety of places and cultures.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and War

wormgirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

theoldestbennetsister's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

Some cool and interesting perspectives you wouldn't usually hear from in a zombie/apocalypse story. The sheer number of people and accounts made it a bit repetitive sometimes. But some of the accounts were just excellent zombie short stories on their own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Death of parent

searchbox's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

So well written and a good commentary on us as a species in so many ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and War