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Snippets, but enjoyable even years after reading the novel they were excised from.
3.5 starsKinda bleak as expected from the genre.I don't usually care for mashups, but the vampire story was really good. Reminded me of The Madness SeasonGreat narration.
This was a short (a very very short) collection of just 4 short stories seemingly set in the same universe as World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. I say seemingly because it is not specifically stated as such, it is just that the stories are all zombie related. All are entertaining in their own way, the best of the bunch is probably the one which posits the question of how vampires might react to their food source all turning dead and inedible. It's a question that has been asked befo...
I've been hooked and smashed by World War Z so I wanted more. I enjoyed these short stories, especially the one with vampires. Now I'm on my way to finally read The Zombie Survival Guide!
An addition to World War Z this tells more personal stories from survivors. The Closure Limited company is something I could imagine happening in todays society. I didn't enjoy the supernatural The Extinction Parade so much, mixing genres I don't think go well together.
A very short book - disappointingly short. The stories within were worth reading, however perhaps only buy this book if on offer.
Holy crap, it really is short. Anthology includes 4 stories, all in the same world as WWZ, set during and after the war.Chapter 1 - Set after the war, a company makes bank (view spoiler)[altering zombies to resemble lost loved, or not so loved, persons. People pay for the privilege of putting a loved one out of their misery, or to enjoy the chance to pop a few rounds into someone who always really deserved it. (hide spoiler)] This one had the voice closest to WWZ, in my opinion, but its all buil...
This was a fun, fast paced, quick read and I enjoyed all of the stories. I really like Max Brooks' "zombie style" of storytelling and this collection didn't disappoint at all. These short stories are unique and the perfect length if you are looking for something creepy but contained in a handful of pages.My top favorite was definitely Steve and Fred. This one has the most unique twist to it and that is worth the read altogether! My other favorite was The Extinction Parade. Who doesn't enjoy a gr...
Decent zombie stories, but disappointing Max Brooks' stories.
A great little extra to World War Z! Written in a similar style, it brings you back to a world after a zombie epidemic!
I really enjoy Max Brooks' stories. I love his insightful way of looking at the zombie culture, what it represents, what it means for us, what we would, or could, do about it if it were to occur.I recently recommended Max's World War Z to a friend, and loaned him my copy so he could read it. (Don't worry, it's back in my possession now, and unharmed. :D) He returned it with the comment that it was probably one of the best stories about society in crisis he'd ever read, and that the realism was i...
If I had paid £5.99 for this book I'd have been extremely pissed off! It's only 120 pages (the print over covers about three quarters of the page).. and.. well it's not great. I loved LOVED World War Z but this does not live up to it, it's wreaks of cheap, lazy money making off the back of that. Even the writing isn't up to Brook's usual standard. I can only assume the endorsements on the back are for World War Z, and whoever wrote the blurb that calls this a "terrifying new collection of short
Four short zombie stories from the zombie master himself.------------------------------------Closure, Limited: A Story of World War Z--Picks up right where WWZ ended in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. The interviewer visits a post-war company that goes to great lengths to make zeds up like lost loved ones so that the client can achieve some measure of closure. With a handgun. Well-written and realistic, a solid addition to the oral history of the zombie war. 4 stars.---------------------...
This is a great little book with a few short zombie stories...If you're expecting descriptions of gore however then avoid this book, this looks more at the survivors and the war they wage upon the undead in order to survive. It deals with self sacrifice, hope and strategy. I particularly enjoyed the story 'The Extinction Parade' because it dealt with vampires too..All in all a great book if you're after something to read in a day, however it fell short of 5 stars because I would have liked to ha...
I can't get enough of this author so I got this book through interlibrary loan. It ended up coming from Ohio. Crazy.So the first story follows the writing style and it's okay. It's really secretive until the end so I don't want to give anything away but I'm not sure why the excess effort would be spent on something like this when there's civilization to rebuild. I suppose it depends on how long after the war the story was.The second story was two stories in one and were told in a completely diff...
"No closure, whatsoever"I am a huge fan of Max Brooks' work and of World War Z, as I am sure practically everyone who buys this is.If you have never read any of Brooks' work before, do not buy this as a first foray in to his work, it doesn't do him justice at all.I was so excited to hear another Brooks' compendium of stories was coming out. Imagine my disappointment when a wafer thin 'tome' with paper quality matching that of a pulp paperback landed on my door.Still, not to be one to judge the b...
I'm a fan of WWZ and this book, which felt like a hastily-produced expansion, was a let down. There were only four really short, unrelated stories. How about taking more time to write more stories and releasing a decent book, huh? There were appalling grammatical mistakes: the plural of Asian was "Asian's", and for every "construction sight" I came across I did a mental facepalm. Construction SIGHT?! Was this book not edited?? And, sigh, one of the stories was told from the POV of a vampire. Peo...
Sadly, Brooks fails to live up to the quality of his previous work here. Weak storylines, lack of resolution and one story that is too bizarre even for zombie fiction makes this book one to not worry about missing.
This collection of four stories from World War Z author Max Brooks is good fun, and a nice addition to his growing body of WWZ-related works.The book opens and closes with stories told in the same style as World War Z - that is, interviews with survivors of the war. It's a style that works well for Brooks, and I love getting a glimpse into the minds of the different characters that he has populated his world with. Opening story 'Closure, Limitied' (the title story of the collection) is the best
I don't feel that such a short "book" deserves a long review, so it won't get one. Four stories are in this book, none of which are especially good or well written. One features vampires which, for me, was a complete turn off. I love zombies and all they represent, however I find vampires uninteresting and personally would prefer to keep the two undead creatures far distant from each other! Annoyed by that, the poor quality of the stories, and the sense that I'd paid to read something that has b...