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So all in all an excellent audioback which has certainly made me more interested in full cast audiobooks, if not audiobooks in general. Contemporary SF fans might be turned off by this and though I can’t speak for Brooks about the lack of female characters, it does make one wonder which sex would fare better during a global zombie outbreak. On a closer look, she was right, most of the characters interviewed were men and of those few women interviewed, not many had important roles in the universe (during the war or after). Although she napped through a couple parts, she did point out to me that there were not a lot of female roles. My wife, who was in the car with me during the trip, did voice a criticism about the novel that I did not realize until she said it. There was a whole section of the book dedicated to the psychological cost of not reclaiming the world that I feel those reviewers didn’t listen too (although it might not have been in the original audiobook version so I guess I can forgive them for that). They went on the offensive and took back their world. Humanity in the novel didn’t just hide behind their walls and wait for the dead to decompose. Personally I think the reviewers missed the point of the book. Previous reviews of the audiobook that I read did criticized Max Brooks for his “upbeat” even “optimistic” portrayal of the narrator. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the performances were astounding so I can’t really complain about the voice actors.
Dean Edwards did not sound that much like the son of Pakistani immigrants and Brian Tee sounded like he phoned in the surfer dude/diver character he voiced. Of course, not all of the actors were perfect. It was only by force of will I kept driving east instead of turning around and heading for the Rockies. I also had a eerie moment while driving along I-80 while listening to the scene in the book about the refugees fleeing along the same road while the hungry horde of the dead are devouring them from behind.
Kal Penn and Mark Hamill gave brillant performances, Martin Scorsese was hilarious and Simon Pegg was completely unrecognizable as the thinly veiled Karl Rove analogue. So I came at this audio book with both high expectations and trepidation, but since I had a long road trip to Washington, DC coming up, I felt this was a perfect time to listen to the complete version that came out as a tie-in with the World War Z film with Brad Pitt.
I’m not ashamed to admit I even contributed extensively to the World War Z article on Wikipedia when I should have been working at an internship. I’ve read it over a half dozen times and even read the book it was based on, the World War II oral history, “The Good War” by Studs Terkel.
World War Z is not just my favorite zombie book, it is one of my favorite books period. In a series of journalistic-style interviews and monologues, Max Brooks tracks the institutional and geopolitical missteps that led to the collapse of civilization and follows the intrepid survivors as they tell the story of fighting their way back against a zombie horde of 200 million.