World War Z

[Jec94227]

So yeah. Great book and all,  loved it, but then I found an interesting detail in one of those movie theater magazines, just after an article on how Matt Daemon is 40 years old(Two pages of article about a birthday, ffs)

They are making a movie.

Starring Brad Pitt.

 

[Ambalon]

Well, he was half decent in Inglorious Basterds. I bought the book though I'm yet to read it: school reading gets on the way.

 

[Jec94227]

It's quite good, read it if you get any spare time at all.

 

[Adorno]

Matt Daemon

Matt is the Devil 

Anyway, it looks interesting. I'll just watch the movie though.

 

[LittleJP]

Amazing book, trying to convince my english teacher to hold a study on it.

 

[Temuzu]

Tried to find it on my local library.

No luck. Gotta find it somewhere.

 

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

I read this book when it came out, and it was the super-awesomest ever.  They better not **** up the movie.  Anyway, it's been in pre-production for like a year now, I'm not optimistic it will ever happen.

 

[zollum]

Does the book make sense without the one before it?

 

[Justiciar]

Does the book make sense without the one before it?

I didn't even realise there was one before it.

The conman hiding out in the Arctic kicks arse.

 

[Redcoat-Mic]

Does the book make sense without the one before it?

The books have nothing really connected really.

The Zombie Survival Guide is a pseudo-survival guide in dealing with zombies, it explains the nature of the virus and how it works but that's all really the context you'd get out of it.

World War Z is a collection of stories from several "witnesses" of the zombie outbreak, an excellent book.

 

[Eino]

I liked the one with the girl with hellokitty bag.

And the soldier who got to the bridge (crazy *****)

 

[Jec94227]

My favorites were the African guy who made the plan, and the American soldier for Yonkers.

 

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

My favourites were the Indian guy trying to get on the ship, the German soldier, the DISTRESS guy and the Russian priest.

 

[Justiciar]

Russian priest.

Must admit..

Spoiler

The visual image of a dishevelled Orthodox priest clutching the bible in one hand and a gun in the other, stalking out into the cold and shooting several zombies in the face made me nod in approval.

The British fellow was bloody silly though.

 

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

The French dude was cool of course.

Yeah I think he should have written the British guy more normally, not in the "Oh sorry, pardon me" type of way.  Though to be fair we do do that.  At least I do.

 

[Justiciar]

That I could handle. It's the fact that Britain's only survivors seem to be ultra-monarchist LARPers. And that he thinks every sodding hill has a functioning castle built on top of it.

 

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

yeah it kinda weirded me out how he was still carrying around a sword.  Got a bit larpy for me too there.  Though the monarchy rox fer sure, i thought that was a kinda cool message for the book.

 

[Justiciar]

If you say so. You know as well as I do they'd be long gone at the first sign of trouble, though. Or hiding out in a heavily fortified country estate, chumming it up with the rest of the aristocracy, hunting down zombies and stray peasants. On horse back. With red coats and bugles.

Which on reflection would be pretty bloody awesome.