For anyone who isn't familiar with it, this book is about the zombie apocalypse. It's a collection of interviews with survivors of the great zombie war. The survivors range from soldier, to astronaut, to hacker, to actor, to historian, etc.. This book looks at the spread of the virus, and it's effects on culture, in ways that i'd never thought about before.

I give this book a 9 out of 10. All around good book, i highly recommend reading it if you get a chance.

For some reason I just heard that little readng rainbow 2 second jingle after I read that.

i don't know why, but after the deathfest.... whenever i think of Composted, i hear the reading rainbow theme.

Just take a look, it's in a book, it's reading raiiinnnbooowwww.

You guys do know that max brooks is mel brooks's son right?


oh and world war z was a great read imo

Composted is all about books.

Could have been written better, but it's worth reading once at least.

just finished it last month. excellent read. hopefully the movie doesnt ruin it.

You really think so? I thought it was written wonderfully.... and I really only like reading books once anyways.



Is there gonna be a movie? Fucking awesome!

ya its in pre-production.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/

this book is a conspiracy!

don't make me log in again, nilla.

you're the troll here, troll

YEAH!!! I just looked it up too, i can't fucking wait. I've been saying to everyone how good a movie this would make.

The movie Zombie Diaries was very much based on the zombies in Max Brook's literature. Good movie too, made like a documentary.

apparently they are turning the book into a movie too.
If you liked the World War Z book....definitely check out
David Wellingtons "Monster Island"/ "Monster Nation"/
and "Monster Planet" trilogy...also Brian Keenes "The Rising".
All killer takes on the zombie story.

uh ya we established that

Fantasic book. They'll def need to make any movies about World War Z a trilogy to do it any justice.

Saw this today. Pretty pumped on it.

http://www.cinematical.com/2010/07/22/brad...-to-star-in-world-war-z-adaptation/

The audio book is amazing. It's one of the rare cases were the audio book is better than the book.

i almost got this book last night. Instead, I got this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Hippos_Were_Boiled_in_Their_Tanks

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished for many years.

Written in the form of a mystery novel, the book consists of alternating chapters by each author writing as a different character. Burroughs (as William Lee, the pseudonym he would later use for his first published book, Junkie) writes the character "Will Dennison" while Kerouac (as "John Kerouac"), takes on the character of "Mike Ryko".[1][2]

According to the book The Beat Generation in New York by Bill Morgan, the novel was based upon the killing of David Kammerer who was obsessed with Lucien Carr. Carr stabbed Kammerer to death in a drunken fight, in self defense by some accounts, then dumped Kammerer's body into the Hudson River. Carr later confessed the crime, first to Burroughs, then to Kerouac, neither of whom reported it to the police. When Carr eventually turned himself in, Burroughs and Kerouac were arrested as accessories after the fact. Kerouac served some jail time because his father refused to bail him out but Burroughs was bailed out by his family. (Kerouac married Edie Parker while in jail, and she then paid his bail.)[3]

As a consequence of his experiences related to the Kammerer/Carr case, Burroughs became addicted to morphine.

MOVIE?!

Brad Pitt? Talk about ruining a whole sub-genre in one swoop.

I listened to this on audio book on the way to MDF. it was awesome listening to the battle of yokers while driving by yokers.

Do you mean Yonkers? Also, zombies? Thats some get outta town shit right there. Lol at people who believe that malarky...get real

right on

yes, Yonkers.

Saw an add for the movie, comes out this month I think.

Luckily, there seems to be a huge flow of apocalyptic adrenaline-filled fest movies this May-July, so hopefully everyone will see the other ones and World War Z will slip under the radar, and not become the new big thing for every single person in the world to read.

Great book though.

Being popular, or having a shitty big budget movie adaptation, doesn't make a good book any less good.

See: Douglas Adams.

See: Jurassic Park. FUCKING LOVE THAT BOOK.

See: Sphere. FUCKING LOVE THAT BOOK.

See: It. FUCKING LOVE THAT BOOK.

See: Mystic River. FUCKING LOVE THAT BOOK.

But yeah, I wasn't talking about a movie declining the quality of WWZ, just that I don't want to see every douchebag who watches the Resident Evil movies to be carrying around a copy of it. They don't deserve quality literature.

See: The Hobbit. FUCKING LOVE THAT BOOK.

See: Hustler, FUCKING LOVE THAT ... oh wait, in that case the movie was better.

my god Spence SHUT IT UP

I am formally withdrawing my previous support of Spence. the rampant douchery of late has negated any sympathy I might have held.

Why does everyone hate on Spence? Kid speaks freely.

1. Why do you hate on Alex?

2. You hate kids that get on your nerves, you have posted numerous times about it, your question is invalid.

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Hi Aril, the way you troll this person is so horribly obvious. Why dont you answer the question I asked rather than go into troll mode. Next I expect you to log in and make an expected response.

You obviously don't know me like you claim you do; I don't find Dolan humor funny.

So immature Aril. Why can't you ever act like a real person?

Every troll in this thread is Aril. Too ashamed to log in and post his childish opinions. What a coward.

The logged in posters are also Aril operating through his many minions. Such a waste of potential.

You can make all of the accounts you want. It just shows who's the adult in this situation.

Whatever, Aril. You're not fooling anyone.

Nice try, Aril.

Expected reply is expected. As well as your troll posts since my last reply.

This is the only official Barren Oak account. Aril seems to think its funny to imitate hard working bands. Childish.

textbook, supposed to make you lol, deflect, but still fails.

Worship my internet ego, bitches.

HATE ON SPENCE OR SPENCE

imagine if he said "they don't deserve quality literature" in real life. that's a real eye roller to me. i don't hate the kid at all, just hatin' on hatin' comments.

Even to classify this as "literature" is a bit of a stretch in my opinion

Hard to infer someone is being pretentious when simultaneously using your own personal definition of words like "literature". For the rest of us, even the Sunday paper is "literature".

Personally, I find Spence's normal elitism refreshing after witnessing the other trolling in this thread. Someone or someones on this forum is quite possibly out of their mind. In the bad, not funny way.

I'm actually Aril.