World War Z

Now this here is a great fucking book to get the ball rolling. Mother-fucking World War Z by Max Brooks.

The whole point of the book is zombie apocalypse, and it pulls the whole damn thing off perfectly. The beauty of this book comes from the writing style. Each chapter is broken up into sections, and each section is a relevant section of an interview with one of many characters, telling their experiences, how the whole thing went down, etc., and it really gives the book a powerful eomtional pull.

I can promise you by the the end of the first little section in the first chapter [where a doctor encounters fucking Patient Zero] you will be hooked. It is over 300 pages long and I finished it in two days. I could hardly put the thing down.

Apart from that, the book really doesn't mess aronud. The very personal instances of survival suck you in like you're actually there. Part of the story of the book is the writer was working for the UN collecting data, so there's a lot of logistical stuff about what happened all over the world. And I mean all over the world. There a countries which got decimated, a couple which thrived and one that had actually planned ahead.

I can't really explain how awesome this book is. You just have to read it.