Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
L**N
A must read
Excellent book a keeper for definite rereads. Not enough publicity found by pure accident.
G**R
buen libro
llego bastante rapido y todo en orden, 100% recomendable
C**N
tutto ok
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J**I
Espectacular
El libro es fantástico, y ya me lo había leído en Español y ahora quería practicar un poco de inglés.Te tiene en tensión todo el tiempo. Mi felicitación a Manel, por la trilogía en sí, aunque he de reconocer que el primero es el mejor con diferencia.
D**N
A solid piece of zombie fiction
I can see why someone here said there is not much new in this, as I thought the same thing when I was reading it for a while --very good, but little new ground covered... But then in the last half and as I continued to the end, I found myself profoundly drawn to what it does do differently.First, I am not professing to have seen or read all zombie fiction... But I do think you'd have a hard time finding more than a few hundred people alive who've seen more, and often with repeated viewings and readings.The blog format was actually something i loved, it made it feel very real, and it harkened back to the great horror stories of yore, namely Dracula and Frankenstein. And I completely think the voice of the narrator is great. Authentic, relatable, funny, etc... Unlike other critics here, who clearly didn't get it, the narrator is a lawyer, not an author, so it makes sense his prose wouldn't be the most eloquent, and that in the course of 300 pages of blog entries chronicling the zombie apocalypse, he just might end a paragraph or two with, "that sucks!"...Anyway, back to what i liked: Walking dead has this, as do some other zombie fiction I've seen/read, but the sense of feeling the weight with the author, and seeing him change over the course of the book. I really felt like i got to know him, and how he'd respond to the situations in front of him, and why someone (incuding myself) might feel that way. It gets you very much in his head, the same way the dexter novels gets you in the head of a serial killer, by having the voice of the narrator be so compelling and seemingly genuine.And much of that is only accomplished by the sensation of time passing... Over the course of this book he visits several locales, and has quite an adventure.. It feels long, much longer than most zombie fiction, and I loved it for that... And the notion that this is just book one of three, makes me even more excited.The chronicle of its spreading from inception was much more interesting to me than the tales from world war z-- which to be frank, I never finished (too much like short stories for me). The way a hemisphere or so went dark, and had blacked out Internet, etc... The opening 50-100 pages or so felt a lot like the movie contagion to me, or really any pandemic-type story... And I can't remember much zombie fiction that had such intricate and dedicated focus on the geopolitical nature of it in the beginning, but then devolves into a man vs nature after the apocalypse type story... It was a refreshing change up, just as each new section, encounter, and location of the book was-- which again contributed to my feeling it was a very enjoyably authentic chronicle of what a random survivor might go through in the apocalypse.And of course, now I also know one thing no one has ever told me through other zombie tales -- I need a neoprene diving suit now... ya know, just in case the dead do rise....AND please, publishers, amazon, whoever -- let's put a rush on the translations of book two and three in the series... I'm desperate to know what happens next!
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