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Arts & Humanities > Horror, Mystery & Suspense Book Reviews: World War Z - An oral history of the zombie war, by Max Brooks

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As the son of Hollywood and Broadway funny man Mel Brooks, one would expect a book by son, Max, to be rife with the same over-the-top, bawdy and side-splitting humor for which his father is notorious. Especially considering the subject of choice: Zombies. Brooks' previous effort was a comprehensive Zombie Survival Guide which outlined how the common North American civilian could survive zombie attacks on a small scale, as well as how to survive the catastrophic possibility of worldwide infection (by Brooks' reckoning, zombieism is a condition brought on by the virus Solanum, not reanimatio...

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