I won't spoil it for you but: It's a better realized dystopia than 1984 or Hunger Games, by a lot. The text is explicitly a semi-reliable narrator working through analysis of primary source documents and *other* unreliable narrators, including one who is Plot Twist.
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There's also quite a bit of the "Let's take a jaunt around the world and Experience Cultures Different Than Ours" and while those are sarcasm caps it was clearly high-effort and sincere. (Including the rare acknowledgement for high school fiction that US culture is complicated.)
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It also manages to be a better Lord of the Flies without even trying, has a better case for monarchism than the entire US lens on the English literary canon tossed off in two paragraphs of flavor text, has a critique and countercritique of US power, etc etc.
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I think it would have made a better TV series. One chapter per show.
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Mini season per chapter?
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I just hope the movie didn't stop people from reading the book. They are worlds apart.
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Agree, huge fan of zombies but they make up a very small percentage of the awesomeness of WWZ. One favorite part is the lamenting of wasted resources by techies trying ridiculous SciFi approach to clearing out the Zombies when the best thing was a sharpened entrenching tool.
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Excellent recommendation. Just finished reading it because of your tweet. Thank you
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I describe it to people as a socio-political commentary on a global apocalyptic event... With zombies haha.
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