Only the strong survive

Readers,

Hope everyone is almost done. And we can get on with discussing this wild-ride that was, "Kafka on the Shore"
When we are done, I hope some can attend the discussion. But I think we should change one of the days. Feel free to make suggestions, but I think we will still have the discussion on SUNDAY the 22nd, but now, instead of Saturday it will be on Thursday instead. PLEASE email me and we can come to a consensus on the days. How is 6 to 8 pm on Thursday and 4 to 6pm on Saturday. These are both Pacific time. So call someone and tell them to get on the Skype or the Gmail or the phone or whatever and Talk about this god forsaken book. Speaking of God Forsaken. The next book seems to be just that.





HERE IS CORINNE'S little BLURB on WORLD WAR Z

World War Z - An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks

So I have never read this book before, nor much science fiction for that matter. I'm loving Kafka on the Shore so much that I realize its a hard act to follow. Upon discussing my book chooser of the month role with a friend, she recommended this as a great book for a book club and listing off all of our mutual friends that are also now obsessed. None of these folks are your typical science fiction aficionados, so I take her word that its worth the read.

From my understanding the story is told through interviews looking back at the post apocalyptic world where Patient Zero came in and nearly wiped out humanity. Zombies took over and the war for survival raged. Max Brooks writes in his introduction, "By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?" I think the general them speaks to fear of the "other," the enemy, among other relevant metaphors of the time.

This is a link to the publisher's description, which I like the best of those that I've read so far.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307346605


I think we all have something to look forward to...

I know you can get this on Amazon for eight books and some library is likely to have it. So get on it! Also, this is a great month to get more people on who didn't read last month. Talk to you soon....

Andrew