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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780978970796
ISBN number: 0978970799
Label: Permuted Press
Manufacturer: Permuted Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 300
Printing Date: December 01, 2007
Publishing house: Permuted Press
Sale Popularity Level: 26185
Studio: Permuted Press
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Our team of crack historians has uncovered the truth you never learned in school: the living dead have walked among us since the dawn of time. In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns. They emerge from foggy cemeteries, frozen barrows, loamy bogs, cursed mines, and gore-spattered operating rooms to prey on the living. But these zombies don't just eat people. They help painters and writers save their faltering careers. They unwittingly push humankind on the quest for fire. They topple evil capitalists and their corporate empires. They fight crime. They fall in love. Join us on a journey into our zombie-filled past... Neither history nor the living dead have ever been this exciting!
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This book is very different from what you find in the usual circles of reading, and very entertaining. I am sure that any fan of zombies will love it! :]
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Loved the book! The story about how the Chicago fire started was a hoot! Wasn't expecting such a variety of zombie stories, they were all written very well. Will there be a book #2?
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I had very high hopes for this books. As a lover of zombie fiction, these short stories should have been right up my ally. Unfortunately, all to many of them miss.
The stories are nearly uniformly poorly conceived. While some are written fairly well, the basis of the stories are un-interesting or go in unsatisfying directions. There are a few stories, such as 'The Reluctant Prometheus' that started fairly interesting, but the execution fell off.
I have to admit that I started to pay less attention as I went on through the stories, and most likely did not give the later ones their proper due. This is a fault of the editor, as the stories should have been picked to have an attention grabber near the beginning, not a snoozer.
While I love zombie fiction, I can not recommend this book. The stories weren't all bad, there are some decent tales, but overall this collection is uniformly unsatisfying to the reader.
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Clever, innovative twists on the Zombie genre. Lots of great historical/biographical fun thrown in. Haven't enjoyed zombies this much since watching the 1940's Zombies on Broadway.
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I was expecting a lot from the originality of the subject of this book: zombies might have come and gone, but they have always been around mankind in history. Being fond of both History and zombies, I found the mix of these themes quite appealing and I was looking forward to receiving the ordered copy of this book. Upon completing my reading of it, my disappointment was proportional to my earlier expectations. For the most part, it's an empty shell, a collection of hastily written short stories, with perhaps one or two key exceptions. I am thinking about "Pegleg and Paddy Save The World" (by Jonathan Maberry), which is like gold in the middle of mere coal. The story, in terms of both humour and theme, cracked me up like nothing else, bringing tears of laugh to my eyes. Read for yourselves the story about these two hardcore, poisonous whiskey-making rednecks from Chicago and their cow, their aunt Sophie and their not-so-reliable customers... A pure gem! In a different style, "The Hell Soldiers" by Juleigh Howard-Hobson, is also interesting. The setting (US Civil War), the main character and the unfolding of events is quite good, as is the overall atmosphere of the scene. This short story would deserve a longer, book-sized version to become meaningful.
As for the rest of the stories, it is simply appalling. There is no lesson, no underlying message, action is almost non-existent and some of the stories are just neither entertaining nor pleasant to read. At no point in the reading did I feel involved in the subject. One of the bugging things is that, depending on authors, zombies are described so differently from one story to the other that this collection of mini-stories shows a lack of cohesion and homogeneity. Some of the story plots are also laughable, edging on pathetic: this story about stage comedians turning into zombies is one such boring example. Some others are so poorly written that whatever message -or any action for that matter- they contain gets lost in the reader's struggle to grasp the author's verbose intent.
Quite simply put, there is very little entertainment or value in this book. Looks like it was hastily produced, written and released, whereas the theme of the book could have been a real hit. To be avoided, or to read with a reduced level of expectation.
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