Walter Greatshell
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 346 pages Rating: 3.47 | 1471 Users | 104 Reviews
Present Appertaining To Books Xombies (Xombies #1)
| Title | : | Xombies (Xombies #1) |
| Author | : | Walter Greatshell |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 346 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2004 by Berkley (first published February 23rd 2004) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Zombies. Fiction. Science Fiction. Apocalyptic |
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I am only about a quarter through but I feel compelled to respond to the many Goodreads reviewers who say this isn't a zombie novel.It's a zombie novel.
They urghh and arghh like any zombie just a little faster. Just because you place a X instead of a Z doesn't make it different. You can put replace SK in skunk with a X and it stills stinks.
But is it a good zombie novel? It's a little early to tell but so far I keep thinking of Xunks.
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I finished it and will have a rating and full review up shortly. Hint: It is definitely not a xunk.
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So anyways...
Xombies: Apocalpse Blue, the first installment of Greatshell's Xombies series isn't a xunk but it is not exactly a rose (xose?) either. While it is a zombie novel it manages to do what all good zombie novels must do and that is be about something other than zombies. One of its faults is that it tends to be about way more than the author can comfortably handle. The first section features the onslaught of zombies, called xombies for reasons explained in the book, and the struggle for survival by our 17 year old heroine Lulu. Then about a third through the focus shifts away from xombies to the isolation and struggle of the survivors for power...on a submarine no less! This change is both incredibly imaginative and somewhat chaotic. We are introduced to some very shady characters and the basic themes are developed involving...well, I won't ruin it for you but lets just say some of our evil protagonist's ideas are sort of Ayn Rand turned on her head. Speaking of Ayn Rand, how come no one has ever written a novel in which Ayn Rand is a zombie? That would explain a lot. But I digress...
I ended up liking this book. However there was much that disturbed me. There are no really likable character. The main character Lulu comes close but she often feels too unreal to really identify with. Also, by the end it become very hard to take sides with anyone. In fact, I started to side with the xombies although I suspect that may actually have been the author's intention. But in the long run, the originality of this novel and the author's riveting style wins out to the point that I give it three and a half stars.
List Books As Xombies (Xombies #1)
| Original Title: | Xombies |
| ISBN: | 0425197441 (ISBN13: 9780425197448) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Xombies #1 |
Rating Appertaining To Books Xombies (Xombies #1)
Ratings: 3.47 From 1471 Users | 104 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books Xombies (Xombies #1)
When I requested this book as part of the First Reads program, I was initially drawn to it by the combination of zombies and apocalyptic fiction, hoping it might be reminiscent of a recent favorite, The Forest of Hands and Teeth. However, Xombies is really a very different kind of book, both because it's science fiction rather than dark fantasy, and because it's apocalyptic rather than post-apocalyptic. Thus I expected to read a great deal more about how the zombie epidemic took place and lessI really tried to get through this book and it seemed interesting at first but by page 250 it started to dip. I lost interest and couldnt finish it.
This movie was really horrific.
I am only about a quarter through but I feel compelled to respond to the many Goodreads reviewers who say this isn't a zombie novel. It's a zombie novel.They urghh and arghh like any zombie just a little faster. Just because you place a X instead of a Z doesn't make it different. You can put replace SK in skunk with a X and it stills stinks.But is it a good zombie novel? It's a little early to tell but so far I keep thinking of Xunks.---------I finished it and will have a rating and full review
If you have never heard of Walter Greatshell before, join the club. He seemed to have come out of nowhere and dive onto the scene with this very exciting zombie novel with a military/sci-fi/medical twist. The first two thirds are the strongest, and then the book takes a drastic shift. Some will enjoy it, some might not. I was in between. It was still very gripping, just not what I expected. I had a hard time believing that things could have been as organized as they were (at the air base) in
I slugged my way through the first half of this book figuring i'd probably give it two stars.I'm just out of a reading slump, and I wanted to return to my comfort zone; booting, shooting, slaying, spraying, tearing up and burning down zombies every way possible.Walter Greatshell's Xombies was one of the first few zombie titles I added to my TBR after joining Goodreads, if the first half of my username doesn't suggest that I have a slight infactuation with the dearly undeparted.That being said,
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