that's just human nature

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World War Z by Max Brooks. How the world reacts to the zombie apocalypse. This was very compelling and I liked the structure as various interviews. Not a huge fan of the writing. It's intended to be transcripts from a bunch of different people but the POVs didn't feel very distinct to me and a there were passages where it just felt like descriptive writing, which would be fine except it was supposed to be dialogue, and in my head I was like 'who talks like this'? Although dialogue is not my strong point so maybe that's just me. I watched the Brad Pitt movie after and it was fine but bears almost no resemblance to the the book at all lol.

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch. Magical police of London. I've fallen behind on reading this series but I still enjoy it. For some reason this particular book was incredibly hard to find in print. I remember having it on my Kindle at least twice and forgetting about it as I do with all ebooks.

In TV, I watched Department Q. Fine detective show though I didn't feel a strong spark for it. I appreciated that it's Scottish and that they gave us an interesting and borderline unlikeable female character to go along with the interesting and borderline unlikeable male lead.

Comments

[mific]

Yes, the World War Z film is like a different (rubbish) species! The audiobook of WWZ is extremely good. I think listening to that rather than reading it meant that I didn't notice the issue you mention.

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Yeah I can see voice actors being able to pull it off! Sadly I miss out on good audiobooks and podcasts because I just can't stay focused on them.

[bluapapilio]

I loved the movie as someone who hasn't read the book. I wonder if I should try the audiobook sometime.

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Personally I think they're both enjoyable in their own way! It's just one of those things that's like why not just give the film it's own name and make it it's own thing if you're going to diverge so widely?