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Extremely thoughtful. I have to agree. I haven't found a zombie themed novel I've actually been immersed in since Warm Bodies. It was different.
I understand what you are trying to say, but I must say there are some things I find interesting about your typical zombie novel. Not the zombies themselves, but what happens to the people left. One of my favorite shows, the walking dead is sort of a zombie drama and follows how a zombie apocalypse would effect our morals and behaviors. You are right that it would probably be the same story if it was bad weather or something, but what I find particularly poignant is when the humans left begin to mirror the lifeless shells of the people they once loved.
That is a worthwhile theme to explore but I feel like it's the default theme of almost every "social collapse" story ever, from worldwide apocalypses to common natural disasters, and unless they're getting into some new aspect of it or approaching it from some new angle, I'm still bored. I'm just so restless with this stuff. I want people to find new things to talk about or new ways of talking about old things. I can't just sit through the same story over and over, knowing exactly what beats it's going to hit every time, which character archetypes will be involved, what shocks will be attempted--I just can't do it, it makes me want to rip my face off.
Mmm yeah good point, but like you say if an author finds a way to explore the concept in an original way it can be good. For example your book! :)
I Read and loved Vaempires by Thomas Winship that had both Vaempires & Zombies.
Isaac, have you picked up Bennett Sims' A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE? It's a zombie novel that doesn't focus on the Zombies but instead focuses on this guy who goes out in search of his father, to find out whether he's a survivor or one of the turned. He very much handles the zombie apocalypse in much the same way Colson White did, or the way Glen Duncan handled werewolves. Incredibly brainy and well done.
http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.c...
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Extremely thoughtful. I have to agree. I haven't found a zombie themed novel I've actually been immersed in since Warm Bodies. It was different.
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I understand what you are trying to say, but I must say there are some things I find interesting about your typical zombie novel. Not the zombies themselves, but what happens to the people left. One of my favorite shows, the walking dead is sort of a zombie drama and follows how a zombie apocalypse would effect our morals and behaviors. You are right that it would probably be the same story if it was bad weather or something, but what I find particularly poignant is when the humans left begin to mirror the lifeless shells of the people they once loved.
That is a worthwhile theme to explore but I feel like it's the default theme of almost every "social collapse" story ever, from worldwide apocalypses to common natural disasters, and unless they're getting into some new aspect of it or approaching it from some new angle, I'm still bored. I'm just so restless with this stuff. I want people to find new things to talk about or new ways of talking about old things. I can't just sit through the same story over and over, knowing exactly what beats it's going to hit every time, which character archetypes will be involved, what shocks will be attempted--I just can't do it, it makes me want to rip my face off.
Mmm yeah good point, but like you say if an author finds a way to explore the concept in an original way it can be good. For example your book! :)
I Read and loved Vaempires by Thomas Winship that had both Vaempires & Zombies.
Isaac, have you picked up Bennett Sims' A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE? It's a zombie novel that doesn't focus on the Zombies but instead focuses on this guy who goes out in search of his father, to find out whether he's a survivor or one of the turned. He very much handles the zombie apocalypse in much the same way Colson White did, or the way Glen Duncan handled werewolves. Incredibly brainy and well done.http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.c...
