I sincerely believe that World War Z (the book, not the atrocious Brad Pitt movie of the same name) would be on high school curricula across most of the US except for its genre. Deep themes. Sophisticated literary devices. Also, zombies.https://twitter.com/mayli/status/968044956186062848 …
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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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It's not about the zombies, is what I am saying.
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Is there anything about it, that you think would be lost in audio-book form? If not, I’ll use an audible credit and put it in my to-listen queue
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I would be worried about my mental health if I listened to that book. If you do not share this worry, then I think that nothing in the book uniquely benefits from the written form and, as it is mostly conversations with very different characters, good voice would be good.
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