Reviews: March 2008 Archives
My darling daughter loaned me World War Z, the Zombie Apocalypse, over Easter weekend.
Told in an 'interviews with survivors' form, the book covers the initial outbreaks in China thru the 'end' of the war. The end was problematical...there are still 'white' zones around the world, and feral zombies can pop up anywhere. The world lost 2/3s of it's population to zombie re-generation before we learned how to fight back collectively.
Naturally it got my fever'd brain working over-time.
I've got the shotguns and weapons necessary for immediate safety, and I know how to kill zombies having read the authors previous book - The Zombie Survival Guide. We even have an immediate family rally-point that is defensible...Bowman's Tower on the Delaware River. The questionnaire on the website is not as sanguine...only giving me a 40% chance of survival.
My problems is what do I do when I finally run out of ammo? They estimate 200 million zacks in the US alone...a bit much for even my ammo stash.
I need to git me a titanium crow bar or a heavy-duty machete.
I figure eventually we'd head west. Most of the zombies will be following their food source fleeing north (Zombies freeze solid in winter - Canada will be very popular)).
I need to find a castle-type structure near a food source in a rural area.
Told in an 'interviews with survivors' form, the book covers the initial outbreaks in China thru the 'end' of the war. The end was problematical...there are still 'white' zones around the world, and feral zombies can pop up anywhere. The world lost 2/3s of it's population to zombie re-generation before we learned how to fight back collectively.
Naturally it got my fever'd brain working over-time.
I've got the shotguns and weapons necessary for immediate safety, and I know how to kill zombies having read the authors previous book - The Zombie Survival Guide. We even have an immediate family rally-point that is defensible...Bowman's Tower on the Delaware River. The questionnaire on the website is not as sanguine...only giving me a 40% chance of survival.
My problems is what do I do when I finally run out of ammo? They estimate 200 million zacks in the US alone...a bit much for even my ammo stash.
I need to git me a titanium crow bar or a heavy-duty machete.
I figure eventually we'd head west. Most of the zombies will be following their food source fleeing north (Zombies freeze solid in winter - Canada will be very popular)).
I need to find a castle-type structure near a food source in a rural area.
