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Manufacturer: Running Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781560258506
ISBN: 1560258500
Label: Running Press
Manufacturer: Running Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
Publisher: Running Press
Studio: Running Press
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It's one month after a global disaster. The most "developed" nations of the world have fallen to the shambling zombie masses. Only a few pockets of humanity survive — in places rife with high-powered weaponry, such as Somalia. In New York City, the dead walk the streets, driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One amongst them is different; though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies, Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world — and perhaps the evil genius behind it all. From the other side of the planet, a small but heavily-armed group of schoolgirls-turned-soldiers has come in search of desperately needed medicine. Dekalb, a former United Nations weapons inspector, leads them as their local guide. Ayaan, a crack shot at the age of sixteen, will stop at nothing to complete her mission. They think they are prepared for anything. On Monster Island they will find that there is something worse even than being undead, as Gary learns the true price of survival.
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Summary: Loved the book
Comment: I like watching movies with Zombies in them... end of the world as we know it, new threats to survival, being eatin alive and changed into one them. With the movies you can just get lost in the simple details of trying to escape and stay alive. Didn't really know what to think a book about Zombies would be like so I gave it a shot.
This is a very entertaining book. I would read it late at night just before going to sleep. As it was I was out in the swamps of Texarkana looking for the Fouke monster on a new episode of Monster Quest and this is what put me to sleep each night.
I highly recommend all the Zombie groupies out there get it and read it.
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Summary: When there's no more room in hell, the dead... oh, you know the rest
Comment: I'd been excited to read David Wellington's Monster Island since I first heard about it. The core idea (the survivor of a George Romero zombie holocaust has to head in to a Manhattan island that has been overrun with the walking dead) is terrific. So it's Escape from New York meets Dawn of the Dead. What could go wrong?
Well, a couple of things. David Wellington makes a few unique twists to the standard George Romero zombie rules that I could have lived with, I guess. You have to expect that a writer is going to make a subject their own. But the mummies were just one step too far over the line for my taste. A little too comic-book-y for me. Also, the alternating Gary chapters would make for a neat short story maybe, but I wasn't too keen on following a thread showing things from a zombies' point of view through a whole novel (though Gary was a good idea overall).
The main problem is that I just failed to empathize much with the main character. His situation is just too outlandish. A U.N. Weapons inspector and a group of tough-as-nails Somali school girl guerrilla fighters as the main characters? I dunno. To me the key to horror is to have a very realistic and grounded main character as it makes it easier to accept the bizarre and supernatural hi-jinks that they go through.
Finally I was able to get over my disappointment with the characters and otherwise enjoy the ride. David Wellington is a pretty good writer, I will give him that. The book wasn't great, but he did manage to piece together a decent story. Not quite as good as I was hoping for maybe, but not bad.
The book is readable enough and I did finish it. Since I have already bought Monster Nation and Monster Planet I guess I'll be reading those too. If I didn't own them already though, I may not be rushing out to pick them up. For a good zombie tale, I enjoyed (the not quite as well reviewed) Dead City much more.
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Summary: Complex for a zombie thriller
Comment: I got the whole trilogy and read them in order thankfully. The writing style seemed a bit complex compared to other "undead" based books I have read.
The trilogy one was more in depth and had a supernatural flavor to it. I was looking for a brain-smashing mindless zombie book but this one gave me a different experience. I feel indifferent as it did not satisfy my mindless need for human on zombie violence.
I would definitely read all 3 of the books to get full satisfaction but if you have not read ANY zombie books read this one first so you are not "disappointed" that it is not similar to the other undead books out there.
If you want brain-bashing go elsewhere but if you want interesting characters and a departure from the norm this is a great book.
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Summary: Outstanding Zombie Novel!!
Comment: I've read many horror novels before, but never one dealing with zombies. Okay, a bit of a lie there. I read Cell by Stephen King. Loved it. And I've seen 90% of the zombie movies made (the legit ones, that is), and am a huge Romero fan. This book was something different. Not better, not worse. Just different.
Wellington has a great, easy style that's quick to pull the reader into his world and consume you completely. This was one of the few books that I just couldn't put down. And when I had to (for sleep, food, work), I was missing the book. Not since reading Ketchum's The Girl Next Door was I sucked into a story. Though Wellington didn't clobber my emotions as Ketchum did, Wellington did succeed in catching me off-guard with some twists that I wasn't expecting at all. The ending was simply brilliant, and made me wish there'd been more.
As a horror fan I couldn't get enough of Wellington's style, his book, his world. I look forward to reading more from this author.
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Summary: Great concept, crumbles a little towards the end.
Comment: An entertaining take on zombie tales. Where he went with the story made it less of a horror book and more of an "us vs. them" or good guys vs. bad guys story, but the characters were kind of interesting and it kept the plot moving along. Worth the read. Also, google the books and you can find them for free online.
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