For those familiar with the Brad Pitt movie released in 2013 that claimed to be tied into this 2006 book, well, they really have nothing in common outside of a name. The book is presented as a series of oral histories documented by an unknown government worker who is creating a report upon the fall and rise of a civilization after a zombie apocalypse, aka World War Z. The book explores various cultural viewpoints and responses, from Israel walling itself off and allowing amnesty for everyone it can to enter as the first country to recognize that zombies existed, to a finacial "hot shot" who is hiding out in the Antarctic after he made boat loads of money selling a vaccine that was for an entirely different disease but sold on the hype of being a zombie preventative. There are triumphant stories of human endurance and some first rate zombie survival as political satire. All in all, I really enjoyed Max Brooks' take on not just what a zombie apocalypse would be, but the steps needed to rebuild a society after a catastrophic failure.
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