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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks is pretty entertaining and thought provoking book. I like it more than most of the other books I’ve read recently.

This book is written as if it’s nonfiction. Apparently, there was a worldwide zombie outbreak that lasted 10 years and the book was written 10 years after the end of the outbreak. It tells the story of the zombie war through a collection of interviews with survivors. The interviewees come from all over the world. The story progresses from the first case of the zombie virus until the “present” when the world is still rebuilding.

I’m not expecting a zombie attack, but reading World War Z did make me wonder how we would handle a global catastrophe. In the book, the governments of the world made some costly mistakes. I hope we wouldn’t make those same mistakes.

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