Review: Ok zombie read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2011
First I'll give some props to the group of writers who probably worked tirelessly to bring this book to fruition. Any reader can totally tell that a bunch of effort was put into it, but unfortunately as a book I didn't find it fully engaging. For this writer, the blog format just doesn't work. The emotional effects of reading action real-time is the same like in a movie. You become entranced in what is happening as you don't know if someone is going to get ambushed by zombies or whatnot. But in a blog format you know that the character is sitting there writing so he's good to go in that respect. I guess the point is that there is a stark difference between talking about events using the past tense and talking about them using the present tense. It is just not that exciting.This book was actually very long. It took me a good number of weeks to get through the whole thing. I was casually reading off and on but it still was long. That's a very good thing; you get your money's worth via your Kindle. You got to know some primary characters pretty well by the time you get to the end of the book so the empathy thing is there but yeah the action and story did not blow my socks off.I have a few complaints but these all are personal ones. Others may find my points irrelevant but that's OK. First off the characters use a blog, cell phones, and laptops to update their life after the fall of civilization. A lot of their reasoning is that the smart people at Google found a way to essentially hack into the whole of the Internet to keep billions of computers and servers up and functioning. Umm no. Even if they did have some excellent hackers there is still no way you can keep up such a vast network remotely. Too many things are dependent on having people on-site IT-wise even if they had a fully virtualized system. I'm mainly referring to the local ISPs and their network. The second thing is the cellular network and power. Same rules apply here as well. To keep electricity flowing and to keep the cell network up it takes too many resources that again, need to be real people doing the work. I'm sure that if you could control a robot body that then it could be possible but we are currently nowhere near that level of technology.So yeah those were my complaints. There were other small things that annoyed me but for the most part it was a good read and worth the money. I just find the main framework of the characters' communication and power network flawed because it just wouldn't happen that way.