07-22-2010, 11:36 AM | #151 |
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bit of a tangent, but is anyone else loosing thier tiny zombie mind over the October pilot showing of 'The Walking Dead' ... If its a hit there will no doubt be companion novels in the pipeline...
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I'm so excited I could eat your liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti.
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07-29-2010, 11:41 PM | #153 |
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My son recently read World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide and loved them. Glad I found this thread so I can help him find other zombie books. But are there any you would *not* recommend for a 12-yr-old boy?
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World war Z is a harrowing, but good read, and the survival guide is quite funny, but on the whole zombie novels are going to tend to include violence, swearing and graphic horror. check out the recommended lists on Amazon I suggest and read the reviews to get an idea of content, Id recommend the Morningstar strain book(s), not too gorey and an exciting read for a teen (nearly) |
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Rhiannon Frater's As the world dies series - sex, homosexual themes. |
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"Aftermath of the Dead" by Gregory Smith, published on ebookmall.com
Avoid. I'm not really sure if the story is good or not because I can't get past the total misuse of basic punctuation that destroys the flow of the narrative. Take this example at the beginning of the second chapter, "Heading east on Highway 44 Michael Whitman, a courier for Express Delivery." That, Gregory, is not a complete sentence. And look at this gem: "Everyone is very excited to be through the summer heat, but also feel a sense dread as they know old man winter will arrive shortly." Yea, I also had "a sense dread" as each page of mangled English passed beneath my gaze so that I gave up on it after 9 pages. Luckily, I only paid $6 on this POS. Last edited by ZombieEatsYou; 08-08-2010 at 07:25 PM. Reason: Unlike Mr. Smith, I proofread my text. |
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This is of course NOT a book, but someothers may like the series too.
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I saw the first batch of those. Not bad, just different. Not a romero type story but an interesting and entertaining zombie tale.
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for those out there who enjoyed Day by Day Armaggedon by J.L. Bourne
the sequel has been release in ebook format Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armaggedon by J.L. Bourne I enjoyed the first book, even if it was a bit obsessed with gun culture. Sometimes I think the only reason people write Zombie books is for them to illustrate their unatural interest in guns. If the zombie came after me in Blighty I'd have a table leg waiting for them, guns are stupid, too noisey and reliant on a 'headshot'. I've always figured a two man team one with a pike the other a hatchet would get the job done. First person pins the zombie with the pike the other person finishes the job, little risk and mucho high fives all round. |
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Hmm I didn't get that feeling at all. Ive read a lot of mens adventure books and these were pretty low key, at least I thought so. But regarding the noise issue and zombies I got to agree.
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HAHA!
Has anyone read Pride Prejudice and Zombies? I've heard it's boring...but then again it is an exact copy of Pride and Prejudice with some Zombies thrown in. |
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Well, PPZ is okay, though I was a bit dissatisfied with some aspects of it. I realise that the work was meant to be a pastiche, but it really just felt like the occasional detail was tweaked to fit in with the apocalyptic atmosphere of the story -- undead encroaching on London? There goes the social season! -- without dwelling on any impact beyond the superficial that the risen dead would surely have on society. Oh, and let's toss in a couple of ninjas while we're at it, because ninjas are cool. Still, it's an amusing enough story.
From the little I've read of 'Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter' (by the same author), my impression is that it's better written than PPZ. There's also a prequel to PPZ by a different author, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, that apparently helps to fill in the gaps of the story, but I haven't read it yet. |
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I'm currently reading A Chemical Fire by Brian Martinez which I believe is available at both Kindle and Smashwords. I'm not done so I can't quite recommend it, but so far I'm impressed. I'm not a zombie fan, and I'm still not 100% convinced he'll pull off the zombie stuff, but the first 1/4 or so of the book (before the chemical fire that leads to the zombification is extremely well done and dark on its own. The book starts off as the story of a man who after an accident is falling into addiction and then finds himself fighting zombies in a post-apocalyptic disaster zone. That first 1/4 was so strong and interesting on its own that had their been no disaster and no zombies I would have kept reading. It's certainly not like anything else I've read.
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