Thread: The Zombie Survival Guide (Book review)

Originally Posted by Ashy

World War Z is being made into a movie!!

World War Z (2010)

Which is a mistake. It should be made into a series. How can you cram all those stories into a two hour long movie? I know you can get the epicness of the battles in there... but the rest...

The guy climbing down the apartment, the downed pilot, the trek north from the USA, the Chinese sub, the astronauts... the list goes on. How the hell are they going to pull that off unless they make several movies?

I saw the mention of it becoming a movie, but only knowing the format of the book, I cant say how it'll turn. I did think the way they wanted to structure the move would be cool though. If I remember right WWZ is a recollection of stories from various people. The movie would follow this same fellow getting these stories, but rather than actually listen to someone drone on, the movie would cut to a scene reenacting the story, which could be cool. However, depending on the amount of content, a lot could be cut, and that'd be a shame, as a lot of book to movie movies often are lame at best...

Still, I'd like to read the book before I see the movie; any reviews on it?

The only complaint I had about WWZ is the final section, where he wraps up some of the stories. I was scratching my head going 'who the hell is this person?' and had to flip through the book to find their section again. It would have helped had he reintroduced them with a paragraph at the start of each one of those mini-sections.

I have both of the books and love them. I will soon be giving a demonstration speech to my speech class about "How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse" in an effort to boost possible survivors once they rise.

I've noticed that there are two main types of zombies, there is the slow-moving one, and the fast one. So the guide would be partially useless in the event of a breakout like the one in L4D, because the guide is about slow-moving ones.