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Zombies

By: Neil Gaiman,Max Brooks,Brian Keene,Tobias S. Buckell,Kelly Link,Tim Lebbon,Kit Reed
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis,L J Ganser,Josh Hurley,Bahni Turpin,Marc Vietor
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Publisher's summary

You can't kill the dead! Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video-gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic.

Evidently, we have an enduring hunger for this infinite onslaught of the ever-hungry dead. Hoards of readers and listeners are now devouring zombie fiction faster than armies of the undead could chow down their brains. It's a sick job, but somebody had to do it: explore the innumerable necrotic nightmares of the latest, greatest, most fervent devotion in the history of humankind and ferret out the best of new millenial zombie stories: Zombies: The Recent Dead.

Full author list: Kevin Veale, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, David Prill, Steve Duffy, Max Brooks, Nik Houser, Andy Duncan, David J. Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Alice Sola Kim, Gary A. Braunbeck, Francesca Lia Block, Tobias S. Buckell, David Wellington, Tim Waggoner, Kit Reed, Brian Keene, Kelly Link, Gary McMahon, and Scott Edelman.

Full narrator list: Jonathan Davis, LJ Ganser, Victor Villar-Hauser, Marc Vietor, Josh Hurley, Bahni Turpin, Jeff Woodman, Elisabeth Rodgers, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Kevin Pariseau, Khristine Hvam, Josh Hurley, and Jeff Woodman.

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Not your typical Zombies

The first story is about everyone having to take massive amounts of drugs to keep the zombies from attaching you. The harder the drug the better, meth is better than pot. Tommy Lee and Ozzy Osborn are the President of the US. While the idea for the story may have sounded good in between bong hits the author was unable to pull it off. It is not that I am against drugs or I have it in for Ozzy, (Black Sabbath is my favorite band) it’s that the story was boring and made no sense.

The sad part is the stories get worst as the book goes on. At least the first story was about “zombies”. Many of the stories I do not even consider to be zombie stories. If you like stories about Zombies dating each other, how it is hard being a teenage zombie, falling in love with and having sex with a high school Zombie girl, then this may be a book for you. If it wasn’t for the hard “R” sex parts I would say this would be a good book for teens.

Even a World War Z story by Max Brookes couldn’t save this book.

The narrators read the stories in one voice. While not bad I am spoiled by the range of voices many narrators have.

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What a p.o.s

I have hundreds of audiobooks. I bought this book assuming it would be zombie stories. Such as the morning star strain, world war z, day by day armageddon, tooth and nail etc etc. Something at least along those lines. This is by far the most boring garbage ive ever had the displeasure of trying to listen too.I really tried with the first 3 stories. Then I found myself skipping through each story 4 minutes into it.If your into action, this is not for you. If you need something to help you fall asleep this is a winner. I think this book was along the lines of "zombies are popular, lets toss this turd together and cash in"

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Multiple zombie genres - weak storytelling

For those who get bored of the constant Romero-Esq story lines this is probably the audiobook for you. The performance and narration was well done as much as the story line would allow for it (assuming read in scarey zombie voice was in their scripts). There were a multitude of zombie type plots - Haitian Zombies, Beautiful Zombies, Zombie High School drama, Zombie love stories etc. This however did not fulfill my Zombie fiction craving.

"Twisted" by Kevin Veale, the first story in the collection did offer an interesting twist without sacrificing the story. I liked the idea that Zombies hunted us via our brain waves and one could allude detection by remaining incredibly intoxicated. The forced intoxication of others made this story all the more unsettling. I'll be looking for more work by this author.

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Not all zombies stories are fun to listen to.

Would you try another book from the authors and/or the narrators?

Since this book has several authors. I would look for addition books on the authors I liked and stay away from the one I did not liked.

What was most disappointing about the authors’s story?

Several stories were too silly and not interesting to listen to.

What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

All narrators brought the books alive. Too bad half the stories suck!

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Zombies?

Not into supernatural were you need to go demonic to make your book beliveible.

Any additional comments?

I was suckered to buy this auible because it had Max Brooks name on it.

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Not worth a credit or a single dollar

I'm a fan of all types of audiobooks from any genre. I enjoyed three of these short stories, two of which were not what I would call zombie stories. Save your credits and get anything else I mean anything.

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Pretty good

Not all the undead are Walking Dead or World War Z type zombies. Sometimes, depending upon what we've experienced or lost, WE become those lifeless, listless wanderers.

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Not my first time plowing through it, not my last

This collection features several home runs, loads of strikeouts, and a few base hits.
Too many of the stories are liberal in their use of "zombie", but are good enough in their own right. Most of the stories, in fact, are arguably not about zombies, but about undead and ghouls, but not zombies. I know I'm splitting hairs, but that's all I can think when I read it.
Standout stories include The Zombie Prince, the Last Supper, and Dead Man's Land.

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Save your money, one of the worst books every.

What disappointed you about Zombies?

I could only make it 1/4 of the way before I gave up. The stories are childish and with poor endings.

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I love Zombies most stories A=+ 4 failed completly

What made the experience of listening to Zombies the most enjoyable?

I am a zombie lover for most of my life. The stories with different readers make a personal narrative of the feelings and emotions one would attribute to a horrifying, unbelievable and extremely dangerous nightmare scenario. Even the dark comedy of some tales are believable if the dead truly rose and humanity had to except this as fact. I am also a what next kind of guy. I want to know about everything, the stories have ended but the what next remains. I like WWZ because it covers it all and then I yearn for more. I am just that way who do they, what happens if, what next reader. The Walking Dead series is one of my favorite Graphic Novels because this question is answered. what makes this enjoyable to me is that I can find authors who have continued their work into full developed stories that open new lines of possibilities for the answers I always find on the last page :-)

If you’ve listened to books by the authors before, how does this one compare?

some compared very well. some I had never heard of, some stories like thinking talking sexually frustrated Zombies make me cringe.

Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?

couldn't tell ya but the first 2 guys and their Idea that they could dope the zombies away was very enjoyable

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

the moment in max brooks when they discussed the last tank on the rebuilt wall of china

Any additional comments?

I think more full cast series of books similar to the WWZ book but done on a real time bases the rumors, the out breaks the panic the survival the failures, the re-org, the offensive. a series that was "were alive" podcast with the max brooks WWZ book that made a series over the entire war. use several characters, maybe a group, a loner a family, even a criminal or some such person that does declare himself king. and use the worlds stories. you could release a couple hour audio book every month and as long as you kept the characters interesting, struggling, and rotated from one or two story lines every episode or so you would have a fan base. that's what I was looking for when i bought this. I was pleased with this book, just wanted more from it.

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Challenge to finish

Any additional comments?

I like Zombies. I like Short Stories. Zombie short stories? Sure, why not? Yeah, I picked this book up because I love zombie/post apocalyptic novels and feel that sometimes all you need is a short concise story. I wanted to like it, but......

This book lurked in my list for a long time. I would read a story (I really only found one I tolerated) and then put it off to the side, coming back every so often to bite a small chunk off, get bored and then put it aside again. So I would say I slogged through this book. And this is short story compilation, it shouldn't be like this, where every bite was just not satisfying, but it was. But I rarely give up (from determination or hope, but I rarely quit anything once I started it, be it real life or reading) so I finally finished it (3 months later!).

I will say that the last story was one of the best, so it didn't finish on a truly sour note. But the best thing about this book? That I don't feel compelled to read it any more.

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