Max Brooks
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Oct 19, 2026
JamieHOST
That's what's happening in the beginning of this book.
JamieHOST
So the beginning of this book, there's a character, Max Brooks, who's actually written.
JamieHOST
This is an oral history of the zombie war.
JamieHOST
That's the title.
SarahHOST
Yes.
JamieHOST
So World War Z, an oral history of the zombie war.
JamieHOST
And Max Brooks is the author.
JamieHOST
But he has written this.
VictusHOST
And, uh...
VictusHOST
Written by Max Brooks, the guy who wrote World War Z.
VictusHOST
Well, this is literally a survival guide for the zombie apocalypse.
VictusHOST
Like, cut and dry.
Scott RockfileHOST
It's not what Brad Pitt or the rest of the team decided to do with the source material.
Scott RockfileHOST
Max Brooks' book, World War Z, is basically stories told by people who survive the event.
Scott RockfileHOST
This movie is showing you the event as it happens, as it breaks out, as we deal with it, as we try and find a way to deal with it.
Scott RockfileHOST
I think it plays out as it should and stands up with most of the higher-budgeted zombie movies that have come out after the classics like Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead and some of the Italian ones.
Dave KeenHOST
I didn't have to look it up.
Dave KeenHOST
I suddenly thought his son wrote that, wrote the World War Z books, Max Brooks.
Dave KeenHOST
Max Broo- World War Z books, Max Brooks, Mel Brooks.
Dave KeenHOST
That's who it is.
Dave KeenHOST
I had to think of his son to think of the dad.
LJHOST
Okay.
LeynaHOST
Another one, World War Z by Max Brooks.
LeynaHOST
This one has been out for a while.
LeynaHOST
They made a really horrible movie with Brad Pitt.
Robert P. OttoneGUEST
I
Chris WhitmanHOST
didn't recommend, um, Max Brooks, he's good at disaster preparedness.
Robert P. OttoneGUEST
That he is.
Robert P. OttoneGUEST
I just reread World War Z and I'm just forever struck by how incredible that book is.
Andrew TavinHOST
That's good.
Andrew TavinHOST
Um, so, uh, oh, I guess you got Mel Brooks' son also, Max Brooks.
Lenny BurnhamHOST
Oh, yeah.
Andrew TavinHOST
There's stuff there.
speaker_3HOST
That is probably best defined by the 2013 blockbuster World War Z.
speaker_4HOST
Oh, absolutely, adapted from Max Brooks' novel.
speaker_3HOST
Right.
speaker_3HOST
Brad Pitt plays Gerry Lane, who is a former UN investigator, and he is thrust into a literal race around the globe to find the origin of and a cure for this pathogen that is turning humanity into ferocious sprinting zombies.
speaker_3HOST
Really?
speaker_4HOST
Yeah.
speaker_4HOST
Though it has to be said many fans of the source material noted how far it strayed from Max Brooks' novel.
speaker_3HOST
Right, because the book was structured entirely differently.
speaker_3HOST
King shows us that a society is ultimately just a continuous series of choices about who gets to be afraid in public and who possesses the power to manage and legislate that fear, which leads us directly to a book that takes this idea of the post-apocalyptic committee meeting and blows it up to a global geopolitical scale.
speaker_2HOST
Max Brooks' World War Z, published in 2006.
speaker_2HOST
Now, I need to put a huge disclaimer here for the listener.
speaker_3HOST
Definitely.
CodyHOST
So in this game, and I don't know if this was, uh...
CodyHOST
I've never read any of the books, but I know, like, Max Brooks actually wrote a couple Minecraft books.
JoeHOST
Nice.
CodyHOST
Um, but I don't, again, I don't know if it's this game, the, the, the dungeon series, or if it's a lore thing, but the characters you interact with, you're not actually hearing...
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