An interesting book written from many different perspectives. This provides the reader with a wide spectrum of reaction and emotions on the zombie event and walks the reader through how different societies around the world deal with the crisis.

While I enjoyed reading the book some years ago, I relished the audio version with its star-studded cast. Having a different voice for each character added a whole other delightful element to the story.

This fascinating novel reads more like a collection of loosely-related short stories. Most of the stories are interesting and quite a few are very cleverly written. On the surface, these are realistic, visceral stories about zombies. But reading between the lines, you'll discover some excellent insights about human nature and how the world as a whole chooses to deal with global crisis situations.

Finally a zombie story that isn’t shit! WWZ is a document of the first person accounts by survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Zombies take a backseat in this story and Brooks instead focuses on characterization and political satire.

Brooks didn’t skip on his homework. He researched technology, politics, economics, culture, and military tactics which is more than Congress can say. I absolutely loved this book if you haven’t noticed yet. The author has almost redefined what a zombie book is. The format is unconventional, it is character as opposed to plot driven, and has the drama of a Matthew Weiner script. The book has recently been adapted into a blockbuster hit (or Redbox for that matter…ha!) Okay I digress. What the movie doesn’t have is the political satire. What the book doesn’t have is Brad Pitt. Both mediums have their advantages and stand on their own feet but what is remarkable about the book is the fact that you easily forget you are reading a FICTION book. The first person narratives of the well rounded characters are that badass. Hands down, the best zombie book on the market at the moment.

I enjoy zombie stories as much as anyone, but I truly think this book is so much more than that. I feel Brooks uses the zombies as more of a means to talk about how humanity works; the unfortunate way we would allow politics to get in the way of working together to stop something big before it gets out of control.

This book was an easy read for me as well. Well-written, with interesting stories from all walks of humanity.

If you're expecting it to be like the movie, know that it is quite different (especially as the movie was merely based on the book, not meant to be an adaptation).

I love zombie stuff...shows, books. But I don't get the hype with this one. It was so disjointed, not really tying any of the stories together. I know it was meant to be written that way, but I just did not enjoy it.

World War Z is a fictional history written in the form of a series of interviews with numerous and diverse survivors of what was known as The Zombie War. The anonymous interviewer invites each subject to tell his or her story, with occasional further prompting via open-ended questions, giving the reader an impressive, relatively complete picture of how the catastrophe unfolded, evolved and eventually culminated in a precarious victory for the remaining living human population.
Although I was initially doubtful based on the number of words in gratuitous quotes contained within the introduction, that phenomenon was thankfully short-lived, and I was actually quite captivated by this book. It felt like a real, historical account, an impression aided by the interview format. The breadth and variety of interviewees was fascinating, and I wished many of their tales could have been lengthened. In addition, I was perpetually curious about who the interviewer was. Overall, a captivating, disturbing read containing some potentially good ideas to consider should we ever find ourselves in the midst of a real zombie plague.

The thing I love about this book (and also Mira Grant's Newsflesh world) is that it's about what happens to humanity after the zombie apocalypse. Rather than focusing on a plucky group of survivors, this is an oral tale from people all over the world telling their personal stories before during and after the rising. In doing so, it shows the change in culture, politics and humanity itself. As a result you have a surprisingly deep book that happens to have zombies.

I couldn't get into this book. I haven't watched the movie so I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. I found the story strange. :(

As previous people mention, the book is completely separate from the film. The film is centered around Gerry Lane whereas the novel is an interview with several people discussing how the war "ended." It's much better than the film in almost every single respect except for the fact that zombies somehow survive under water. That was where Max gotta' a bit carried away.