World War Z
Novel by Max BrooksWikipedia
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Oct 19, 2026
JamieHOST
Yes.
JamieHOST
I got World War Z. That's right.
JamieHOST
Okay.
JamieHOST
And I read it and I really did not want to read it.
JamieHOST
So let me just tell you a little bit about it.
JamieHOST
OK. OK.
JamieHOST
World War Z. I could care less about zombies.
JamieHOST
I am not a zombie lover.
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.
Andy MorganGUEST
H- here's another thing.
Andy MorganGUEST
World War Z, dumbest book I've ever read.
Andy MorganGUEST
Probably top five dumbest book I've ever read.
Andy MorganGUEST
I hate journal books.
Jason WilliamsHOST
I was-
Andy MorganGUEST
...
Andy MorganGUEST
Z- World War Z kind of-"
Jason WilliamsHOST
It's one of the reasons I, it, back, back to, you know, famous Halloween-y horror stuff.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
But
Patton OswaltGUEST
then there's one, one of the best audio books I've ever read, and it's abridged from the original, and it's still brilliant, is Max Brooks' World War Z, because they cast
speaker_5UNKNOWN
it.
Patton OswaltGUEST
It feels like you're listening to an audio documentary of a thing.
Jenn AdamsHOST
Yeah.
Jenn AdamsHOST
Yeah.
Jenn AdamsHOST
I have not actually I call it I read that World War Z, but I have ear read it.
Jenn AdamsHOST
And it is it feels like that is almost the format that that is meant for, you know.
SalHOST
I used to read more back in the day.
SalHOST
I loved, um, World War Z back when it first came out.
SalHOST
It's better than the movie by a country mile.
TiffanyHOST
Yes.
SalHOST
Yeah.
TiffanyHOST
Uh, that was a great audiobook.
TiffanyHOST
Uh, additionally, when you're talking about World War Z-
SalHOST
Yeah
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.
LeynaHOST
The book was so much better.
LeynaHOST
And it is taking place after a zombie war that took over the whole world.
LeynaHOST
Like, that's why it's called World War Z. Zombies have... attacked.
LeynaHOST
And so now people are telling their stories after the fact.
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.
Robert P. OttoneGUEST
I think I'm going to reread Devolution, which I think is my favorite of his books.
Robert P. OttoneGUEST
I'm just joking
Chris WhitmanHOST
because I know he did World War Z in addition to...
Chris WhitmanHOST
Didn't he do the Zombie Preparedness Guidebook? Yeah, the Zombie Survival
Robert P. OttoneGUEST
Guidebook.
Rod PyleHOST
Yeah, and it really, it just sticks with you.
Rod PyleHOST
And it's a little bit like if you read World War Z, which by the time I was done-
Tariq MalikHOST
You know-
Rod PyleHOST
... reading that book
Rod PyleHOST
And it's, and, and it's real time.
Tariq MalikHOST
Mm-hmm.
Rod PyleHOST
So by the time I was done with World War Z, there's a little part of my brain going, "Gosh, I'm glad we survived that.
Rod PyleHOST
Wait a minute, this is fiction."
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.
6 MINS LATER
speaker_2HOST
It is a thousand intensely local contradictory narratives that are violently forced into the exact same timeline.
speaker_2HOST
Our text notes that this insight has aged incredibly well, perhaps too well, in our current era of fragmented information and real world pandemics.
speaker_3HOST
World War Z remains the absolute best argument in modern fiction, that the end of the world, if it actually comes, will not be fought with glowing swords on a mountaintop.
speaker_3HOST
It will have to be administered.
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