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Similar to my surprise when I reread world war z and discoverd that the cool ass zombie book I read when I was 15 actually sucked ass
Extremely funny for it to have the reputation of like realistic zombie fiction and then theres a whole chapter in japan with a samurai otaku and blind shaolin warrior monk travelling the lands.
Not so funny is all the racism in it.
Also Russia being taken over by Rasputin, if I recall correctly. I still remember the last line from the Russia chapter, because it makes no sense. It's something about "and you know what the word tzar comes from". Which is like, okay so he's calling himself Caesar? How does that matter.
The racism is kinda funny in a way, because it's just every single stereotype you can make up. The Brits fight with longswords and love the queen, the Russians have Rasputin, the Canadians don't exist.
And there's some cool stuff like the french catacombs.
The Palestine chapter should get him executed.
The catacombs and the nuclear sub chapters are mostly what I remember and they were rad.
The story of the pilot who gets downed in a dark forest and helped by a voice on the radio called Mets Fan is a great little horror short too
People are dunking on the book but I thought it had it's moments.
Yeah, it's not great, but the faux documentary format is legitimately kinda cool
The politics are dogshit liberalism, but I think the overall story and presentation is very solid.
Definitely, I dug that one.
I completely forgot about the sub!