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Max Brooks was born in New York City on May 22, 1972. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Pitzer College. From 2001 to 2003, he was a member of the writing team at Saturday Night Live and won an Emmy for his work. He is the author of The Zombie Survival Guide, World War Z: An Oral mostrar mais History of the Zombie War, and The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks. World War Z was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. He is also a television and voice-over actor. He has appeared on Roseanne, To Be or Not to Be, Pacific Blue, and 7th Heaven. His voice-over work includes Batman Beyond, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and Justice League. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Max Brooks

The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) 7,337 exemplares
Minecraft: The Island (2017) 447 exemplares
The Harlem Hellfighters (2014) 289 exemplares
Closure, Limited (2012) 96 exemplares
Minecraft: The Mountain (2021) — Autor — 74 exemplares
World War Z: The Art of the Film (2013) 11 exemplares
Minecraft: The Village (2023) — Autor — 10 exemplares
In de val (2020) 3 exemplares
The Extinction Parade #3 (2013) 2 exemplares
Zombie Survival Mini Note Pads (2008) 2 exemplares
L'armée des morts (2014) 2 exemplares
The Extinction Parade #2 (2013) 2 exemplares
The Extinction Parade #5 (2014) 1 exemplar
Boom, Corrie Ten 1 exemplar
War of the Zombies — Autor — 1 exemplar
The Extinction Parade (2014) 1 exemplar
The Great Wall (2017) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology (2010) — Contribuidor — 373 exemplares
World War Z [2013 film] (2013) — Story — 358 exemplares
Zombies: The Recent Dead (2010) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Dark Delicacies II: Fear (2007) — Contribuidor — 111 exemplares
To Be or Not to Be [1983 film] (1988) — Actor — 42 exemplares

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Book Discussion: World War Z *Spoiler Free* em The Green Dragon (Abril 2010)
World War Z and the End of Civilization em Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (Janeiro 2008)

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Book is way better than the movie. The movie was a bust. Just an FYI.

When I first read this book I was skeptical because I’m not a fan of zombie anything. Let me just tell ya; I loved it.

My perception; I’ve been told I’m wrong but oh well. I read it as the war has been going on for sometime and a journalist explored the origins of the virus within a time line. I imagined it like the Interview with a Vampire. He interviewed tons of individuals and it jumps from person to person location to location explaining how the war went down.

What I enjoyed the most is perfectly realistic tone; both serious and sardonic at the same time.
I feel like the approach is truly from a reporter with military knowledge; providing a pragmatical experience, if there was a zombie apocalypse. As a therapist I also enjoyed how it hit on the psychological effects on the individual, the citizens, and the military personnel.

I enjoy books that allow for the tears and laughter.
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Rementegui | 711 outras críticas | Mar 17, 2024 |
Usually, I dislike zombie movies and stories, but I was impressed by this. It's really well done, like a collection of interviews from a real event. The cast does a good job presenting the overall story and it's enjoyable to listen to.
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JohnMB69 | 711 outras críticas | Feb 23, 2024 |
Well that was disappointing. I was really excited about the prospect of a Bigfoot horror/survival story, but "Devolution" didn't deliver. Half of this book is Brooks preaching about people's lack of survival skills, reliance on electronics, lack of natural disaster preparedness, and a whole host of other topics, and it's funny because I actually agree with him on many on these points, but the incessant harping about all these things got SO TEDIOUS. I probably sound like one of the people Brooks was narrating against, but it got to the moment where all I was thinking was, "Can we PLEASE just stop being serious and get back to the story?! " Yeah, he made some great points, but in doing so he sacrificed a lot of plot development.

The other half of the story is predictable and substitutes blood and gore in place of real terror. Sure, I had a chill here and there, but it was the same chill you get from watching a C-list horror movie knowing from the increasingly spooky music that some dude in a mask is about to jump out of a closet. Also, there was nothing new offered to the Bigfoot legend, or even anything that was new, period. It was, again, like a subpar movie, although now it's one of those survival ones where a wizened old scientist quips, "Humans took over Mother Nature...now Mother Nature is taking back what belongs to her!" I could have only read the first and last chapters of this book and then told you with 90% accuracy what happens, who dies, and what the climax of the book looks like. I went into this book prepared to enjoy every second of the Bigfoot-ness, but even as I was trying to force myself to like it I just couldn't: as the story went on it just devolved (lol) into a hot mess of predictable tropes and plot points, unlikeable characters, and dry dialogue.

There are other numerous little things I don't think were well done (the main character, Katie, is annoying as HELL; the Bigfoot for some reason speak a vaguely defined "American folk language" that SOMEHOW another character speaks, too; a bunch of really unnecessary footnotes) but I'm just leaving it here.

Can someone PLEASE write some good cryptid novels?! Cause this ain't it.

TL;DR "Devolution" is basically just the "Jurassic Park" movie but with Bigfoot. Spielberg=1, Brooks=0.
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deborahee | 54 outras críticas | Feb 23, 2024 |
I think this book was more like a distopian work of fiction than pure horror. It's not really a novel: it's a collection of fictional interviews with survivors of a zombie epidemic. People from all creeds and nations describe national politics and personal feelings.
This book is more like a very elaborate description of a setting, a bit like what Jose Saramago does in Death With Interruptions. It was a fascinating read.
 
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jd7h | 711 outras críticas | Feb 18, 2024 |

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