Blog Post #7

Over the past few weeks I have been reading World War Z, an apocalyptic horror book by Max Brooks. I watched the film version back when it came out in 2013(probably should have read the book first...) and thought it was really good, but never really got around to reading the book until now.

The story is told by a series of interviews done by Max Brooks, an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission. The origin of the plague isn't know but a boy from a small Chinese village is identified as Patient Zero. The plague started in China, and even though they tried to contain it, the effort was useless and it continued to spread.

Several nations, mainly ones closer to the devastation, started to initiate nationwide quarantines. The United States it too confident in their ability to handle the threat and tried to stop public panic by marketing a placebo vaccine. Many areas around the world fall into greater chaos, such as Iran and Pakistan who engage in a nuclear war to try and stop the flow of refugees in and out of their countries. A few weeks after, New York City falls gets overrun by the zombies, which didn't really come as a surprise seeing how overconfident the U.S. was. The army was sent in but failed miserably after never being faced with such a relentless opponent.

I only finished about half of the book because of all my test and other schoolwork, but this is one of those book that when you pick it up and start reading it, it's hard to put it down. So far I think that book is great in the sense that you don't know what to expect and that suspense is the reason you want to keep reading.