I like science fiction, but I have to admit I am not a big fan of zombies. I do not know why; they just have never really interested me or freaked me out much. I do like this book though; for some reason, it does not seem lame to me like most zombie things do. Brooks did a good job making the stories seem realistic. I also really like the way he presented the stories. I think the composition of many different interviews on the same topic but from different places and different people all over the world helps make the whole zombie topic more believable.
The story that sticks out to me the most is the one from The Amazon Rain Forest, Brazil. This is a wild account where the man comes back to life as a zombie on the operation table and kills and starts to eat the doctor, Doctor Silva. The narrator was involved in the black market organ donors. He assisted Doctor Silva in a heart transplant, and he felt like something was off and not right. But Silva insisted everything was fine and encouraged the narrator to leave. The narrator left, and Silva could not have been more sorry. The narrator returned after a shaken up nurse called him and blew the zombie's head off with his gun. To make the situation even more sketch, all of the staff lied to the police with the cover story "that a homicidal maniac had broken into the clinic and killed both Herr Muller (the zombie) and Doctor Silva." This was on page 25. Then the said that "Silva was a victim of a probable 'car jacking'" to further cover up the whole mess.
The whole idea of the zombie might not appeal to you because the majority of the the time zombies are taken in a humorous way. They're never taken seriously. Also, zombies aren't necessarily science fiction in the typical science fiction genre. That might be another reason why they bother you.
ReplyDeleteThe Amazon story was really interesting. I thought that the way they covered up the whole even was clever. My favorite story was the boy from Palestine. It was crazy how he was more into himself than the safety of his family.
ReplyDeleteThe Amazon story really stuck out to me as well. Though it was clever how they covered up, it was kind of scary to think that they did that so simply. It made me wonder if this was a regular occurrence that happened in this region if a death was needing to be covered up.
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