, Max Brook's latest zombie-inspired drama, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
chronicles the fate of those fortunate souls who survive the Great Zombie War. Thirty-five-year-old Brooks, son of the much-loved and highly acclaimed comic Mel Brooks, strives and fails miserably to obtain the legend satirical genius of his old man. The attempt, while humorous and moderately entertaining, is strewn with thinly veiled references to vomitous liberal orthodoxies which ultimately detracted from my overall enjoyment of the book.Check out Entertainment Weekly's review.
Taken as a fluff piece on zombies, Brooks' book is enjoyable. But the underlying themes of the work depressed me--that government is criminally inept, that the wealthy are a bunch of pigeon-holed specialists unable to adjust to dramatic change because their sense of entitlement confounds their problem-solving faculties, that the military would be entirely incapable of destroying a thought-less, strategy-less enemy. Brooks makes several oblique references to current events, all in the same context of the oh-isn't-our-government-inept meme.
I'm not thrilled. Unless you like zombies or fictionalized, hackneyed war accounts, I'd skip this one.
