World War Z [0] by Max Brooks it came out in 2006, when there was a bit of a fad of zombie-related content. most of it was pretty formulaic and predictable - t

World War Z [0] by Max Brooks it came out in 2006, when there was a bit of a fad of zombie-related content. most of it was pretty formulaic and predictable - there's a zombie apocalypse, there's a group of people struggling to survive, the story follows them. World War Z broke out of the mold, taking the form of "an oral history of the zombie war". its conceit is that the narrator is a historian, going around the world to interview survivors and record their stories. each chapter takes the form of an interview with a different person, arranged more or less chronologically to follow the spread of the zombie outbreak. this oral-history format lends itself really well to an audiobook with an ensemble cast. the author is the son of Mel Brooks, and he was able to use Hollywood connections to assemble an incredible cast [1]. there is also a film with the same name [2]. the film jumps right back into the predictable formula that the book so deftly escaped, and turns into "Brad Pitt saves the world from zombies". the two share no similarities beyond the name. it makes Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers look like a faithful adaptation of the source material in comparison. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z#Cast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z#Cast 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film)