Reddit reviews The Living Dead

My favorite novel is actually a collection of short stories and one that didn't come out until right as I was finishing up (so it's not in my thesis, but I bought it and read it after): The Living Dead. My favorite game was Resident Evil 4 (I was new to gaming when I started playing all the games... and I found that one to be the easiest... Heh). I have trouble picking a favorite movie... I loved Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and then contrasting it with Tom Savini's remake. Sadly, the bulk of that chunk had to get cut. Boo!

As for fast moving vs slow moving.... I'm a filthy purist and I agree with George Romero: Dead things can't run. If they did, their ankles would break off. So I don't really like the idea of dead zombies running... but the zombies in 28 Days Later? They're not dead. I'm just fine with those ones running.

The Living Dead. There are like 25 stories in the book IIRC. I'd say 22 of them are "good", and at least 5 are pretty great. The non-Romero style many stories have may turn some zombie fans off, but I liked the book a lot. A couple of the stories are real standouts. It's hard for me to pick a favorite. I liked Dead Like Me most, or maybe the schoolhouse one I suppose. Dead Man's Road was good too, maybe that was my favorite, heh. I liked the last rambling one too though, where the guy explains how his town falls to the dead as it happens. The Stephen King one was actually better than I figured too.

Book of the Dead is a great anthology too. Maybe even better, but I liked both since I really like short stories for some reason.

I will finally get around to reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Living-Dead-John-Joseph-Adams/dp/1597801437/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331844384&sr=1-3

really? i would say this is a bigger bang for it's buck. i liked the survival guide immensely, but found world war z a bit laggy at times.

I recommend The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams. It's not a novel, but a rather good collection of short stories by a lot of really good authors:

Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, Steven King...
How the Day Runs Down by John Langan is a particularly good story, I recall, with a really strong monologue at one point.

It's available on the Kindle for $2.99, which is a steal considering it's almost 500 pages in my paperback format

I really enjoyed World War Z, even though it wasn't nearly as fast paced as most novels in the genre, I thought the satire and the interview style gave it something you don't see in a lot of genre fiction. Not to mention the raw "sample of humanity" feel. I teach senior lit in high school, and I did add it to the list of research topics this year; should be interesting to see what I get back.

I also really enjoyed The Living Dead. Even though it is a collection of short stories, I thought the variation was kind of interesting, and some of the stories were really well written.

Try The Living Dead, if you liked World War Z. $7.99 ain't bad...

Also, if you of the mindset that you want to replace the dead tree version of the sci-fi/fantasy you already own, and aren't against torrenting, there is a torrent of "18K sci-fi/fantasy books". or something similar. I replaced a full bookcase of old books.

Merry Christmas!

Read Death and Suffrage by Dale Bailey, it discusses this! You can find it in the book "Living Dead"

http://www.amazon.com/Living-Dead-Joe-Hill/dp/1597801437

• Currently reading The Discourses of Epictetus. (Philosophy, Greek Stoicism)
  
  
• Last book I read was The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. (war, gore and testosterone that takes place in the year 40,000)
  
  
• Emergency book to be always kept in the car until I finish it is The Living Dead. (zombie anthology)
  
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