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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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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.

©2010 Paula Guran (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
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mostly great

was entertaining from start to finish, but one or two of the stories frustrating and almost ill placed for a zombie book. the most impressive part is the creative and different takes on the zombie genre.

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is it good ERM not really

Only a few of these stories are good. I found myself losing interest and zoning out on a large proportion of them. The performances were adequate to stellar Johnathan Davies knocks it out the park as usual but the boring stories really do hold a lot of the actors back. Don't waste money on it use a credit.

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solid zombie tales from a variety of great authors

my favorite is the zombie PI, a hilarious take on the classic sleuth novel .
has a great extract from world war z too another fabulous book in its own right

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Not quite what I would have liked

I was quite pleased to see such a compendium on Audible and at a good price for 20 hours or so of listening. Especially looking forward to a good scare when out walking the dogs at night time, or driving during the darker hours - both times where I do my audio book listening.

The stories aren't bad, and they are well narrated. However the problem is that 90% of the authors seem so desperate to take an original twist on the whole zombie genre that it becomes a bit dull, and hardly ever, really, hardly ever scary. All I wanted was some proper horror stories based on the zombie genre.

I've since bought Domain of the Dead and the Walking Dead audio books - they seem much more my cup of tea.

By all means give it a crack, just don't expect any scares :(.

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A fun read

Worth your time but I would save the first story to last as its the most fun in my opinion

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