• frank@sopuli.xyz
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    23 days ago

    Oooo as someone who has seen the movie and never read the book, any sales pitch for me for the book?

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      23 days ago

      The book is wonderfully written, and actually fairly insightful from a disaster preparedness and policy standpoint. It’s been a while since a read it so forgive me if the details aren’t exactly correct. Its written from the viewpoint of a journalist traveling the world post zombie apocalypse. He is collecting stories from survivors of various major events that happened during the zombie outbreak. Each chapter details a different event conveyed by a different witness, so it’s not a cohesive single plot story. More like working notes of someone preparing to write a history of a major global disaster. It highlights some of the mistakes made and lessons learned as events unfolded.

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        23 days ago

        The audiobook is also quite good. It’s fully cast, so each section is voiced by a new actor who writes the letters in the collection.