EPTTL Book Club #2: World War Z Discussion - Page 2
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QuoC
United States724 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
Also I'm listening and reading through the smuggler interview right now, and it's [audio version] skipping lots of questions. And then it's now skipped over like 3-4 countries descriptions. | ||
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
As for the pdf errors, this really sucks, but idk what to do about it. Apparently the book was released in a few different versions that are way off.  | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
Chapter 1: Introduction. Just sets up the story about how my life got flipped turned...about how the war has been over for 10 years and what follows is basically interviews with people that survived linked together with data when it needs to be. The narrator is the person conducting the interviews. Chapter 2: Warnings. A Collection of interviews/personal statements from a host of characters about the beginnings of the outbreak. Kwang Jingshu: A Chinese doctor that was called in for one of the first infections, before any civilians (him included) knew what it was. We learn that when he called his friend, a government doctor of some kind, his friend seemed to know something about the infection already, and then the government came and gathered up all the people in the village. Nury Telavaldi: A smuggler of sorts that, when the outbreaks started, found work smuggling people in and out of tibet and across borders. Shows us how people in the early stages tried to deal with the problem and how the underworld smugglers may have facilitated the spread by moving people across borders that were supposed to be closed. Stanley MacDonald: A Canadian soldier that was working in Kyrgystan when the outbreak reached there. He was the first person to encounter an infected in the area without dying because of it. Fernando Oliveira: A South-American doctor that performed a transplant with an infected heart (was unknown to him at the time) and dealt with the transplant patient after he zombified and killed another doctor. Jacob Nyathi: A guy that was in South Africa when the outbreak there started, was able to escape after killing a zombie, was shot by police and taken to a hospital where he overheard discussions between doctors where the doctors seemed to think the infection was a form of rabies. Jurgen Warmbrunn: An Israeli intelligence agent of some sort that was one of the first to piece together what was going on from a myriad of UN reports and other documents. He and another man developed a plan to stop infection, the only country that followed the plan was Israel (at least as far as we know at the end of the chapter) and unfortunately that seems to have caused the start of a civil war in Israel. Saladine Kader: A college professor who, at the time of the outbreak, was a teen in Palestine. His father moved them to Israel (against Saladine's will) when the infection started. Everyone suspected that it was an underhanded move by Israel in their never ending war, and not a legit protection against the outbreak. The chapter closes on the start of the civil war. | ||
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
On December 24 2009 08:33 CharlieMurphy wrote: No one is even discussing the book sections. I'm guessing everyone just gonna talk about it after it's done? I was assuming that was what would happen, but wanted the thread to be open the entire time incase people wanted to discuss it during and also just to help prod people into staying caught up. | ||
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
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QuoC
United States724 Posts
On December 24 2009 08:59 Lemonwalrus wrote: Also anybody else pick up on the anti-American sentiment in the 2nd chapter? I mean, it was quite subtle, so you might not have noticed. /sarcasm definitely. i usually have a hard time recalling names and specifics about these short-handed interviews of multiple people.. but I DO remember reading a comment made by one of the people being interviewed that implied a bad example and saying something along the lines "we aren't like YOUR country" (YOUR country meaning the USA). | ||
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Dknight
United States5223 Posts
+ Show Spoiler [potential spoiler] + I feel so cliche saying this but I'm really enjoying the social/political commentary that goes on throughout the book. My favorite being the Israelis and their instinct for survival after 2000 years of constant attack and goes somewhat like: "it's the job of the 10th agent to disagree if the first 9 all come to the same conclusion." Then there's the always looking for something deeper than the obvious motif. And the Americans getting tricked by the Chinese so they don't find out what the government is actually doing? So awesome because it can realistically happen. | ||
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QuoC
United States724 Posts
On December 25 2009 10:54 Dknight wrote: I feel so cliche saying this but I'm really enjoying the social/political commentary that goes on throughout the book. My favorite being the Israelis and their instinct for survival after 2000 years of constant attack and goes somewhat like: "it's the job of the 10th agent to disagree if the first 9 all come to the same conclusion." Then there's the always looking for something deeper than the obvious motif. And the Americans getting tricked by the Chinese so they don't find out what the government is actually doing? So awesome because it can realistically happen. you've exposed to me orgasmic matter in which I pre-ejaculated (meaning reading your post before reading further) and could not hold the temptation can't wait for this shit. sounds very complex and interesting | ||
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Dknight
United States5223 Posts
Also, for those who don't have the actual book. Just use your local library! That's what it's there for. | ||
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17726 Posts
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Matoo-
Canada1397 Posts
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
DISCUSSION NOW OPEN FOR TURNING THE TIDE & HOMEFRONT USA | ||
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
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Falcynn
United States3597 Posts
Gonna go get that book and read to page 200 tonight. | ||
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
DISCUSSION NOW OPEN FOR AROUND THE WORLD, AND ABOVE Also, I forgot whether we were following the tl calendar or my home time, so I think we lost a day somewhere, anyways, we will open full book discussion 48 hours from this post. | ||
Hot_Bid
Braavos36372 Posts
i think one of the biggest strengths was the authors creative use of language, i thought the US army perspectives calling them Zack and Gs were really cool. most zombie stories need this sort of grounding, because calling them zombies often takes you out of the reality of it. after a few dozen pages i quickly and easily forgot that it was a story with supernatural elements, because so many details and emotions from the characters were so realistic and grounded. my favorite povs so far were the american ones, mainly the DesStRes and army grunt guys. | ||
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
Also I agree with your assessments about the language making the book more believable. It reminds me a lot about how my favorite sci-fi authors always have weird slang that they introduce in order to pull you out of your world and into theirs. | ||
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