World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

2006 • 5h 59m

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Average rating3.9

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From a technical standpoint, this is a really good audiobook. Its cast is chockfull of great actors, including Mark Hamill, Simon Pegg, Kal Penn, Nathan Fillion... all doing great performances. There's great moody interlude music too.

But as for the story itself, it is pretty interesting, but there's a lot of different ones with one general theme - the apocalypse, which at this point has already happened. So most of your interest in the current chapter depends on how engrossed you are in the current story or in its voice actor, as the story they're telling isn't happening in current time.

Unfortunately for me, I found the concept to get pretty tiring at about the halfway point of the book. There were still a few highlights after that, but I wouldn't say I needed every single one of those interviews to be in this. I guess I'd have preferred to have fewer stories, and have each of them a bit longer. Then you could make each of the stories very good and not have so many one-offs with one that you're into and then followed by one that you're not.

April 28, 2017