World War Z

Over break I received the book World War Z as a gift. I had heard amazing things about the book from critics as well as some of my friends but I was still skeptical of the book despite it being a critically acclaimed best seller. I was worried that it would be a very bad book because of it's subject matter. The book is about a theoretical zombie apocalypse. It is written after the hypothetical zombie war, and humanity barely survived. The book is a collection of interviews and stories from people who witnessed the zombie war. The book goes in chronological order from the beginning to the end of the zombie war. I've read the beginning and it portrayed a very realistic near future world view. America and China were at each other's throats, at the same time the first outbreaks begun in China and the Chinese government was trying to cover up the initial outbreaks. Later on as the outbreaks became more prominent and larger the Chinese government went public and told the world that they had an epidemic of "super rabies" but the entire world believed that it was just propaganda. Another story that I found interesting dealt with Palestine and Israel. Told by a 17 year old who "though he had all he answers". The interview reveals that Israel was having a "voluntary quarantine" and that anybody from Palestine was allowed to go to Israel and live in safe camps. The boy believed that it was all a lie and the Israelis were going to kill or imprison them, so he attempted to join a organization of suicide bombers against Israel before his father forced him to go to the voluntary quarantine. When they reached the border they found a large electric fence as far as the eye could see and one entrance guarded by a group of dogs and soldiers. The soldiers quickly admitted the boy and his family and they walked in between a pack of dogs. They saw some injured people walk through the group of dogs but the dogs snarled at them, and the people were forced into a black van. The boy found it strange that some injured people walked through the pack of dogs and the dogs remained docile but when others went though they snarled and the people were forced into the vans. Later on the boy realizes that the dogs could tell if someone had been infected and hadn't been "turned" yet. Overall I find World War Z to be a surprisingly good book.