World War Z: Blame, Kirsten Southerland

World War Z is a book over the oral history of the zombie war, written by Max Brooks. I'm not a big reader, but honestly Brooks had me not wanting to stop. His book, World War Z, has been a page turner and I love how it's set up. I like how it's kind of like an interview, but then again it's not. It's set up into short stories from different people's viewpoints from the experiences they've faced around the world. My favorite chapter out of the three has been "Blame". This chapter stuck out to me because I instantly noticed that a couple of the stories were based to happen in the USA, so that made it all the more interesting. I also liked how it talked about the CIA, and fear, and the ways that people tried to solve the problem but didn't do it the right way. When Brooks talked about the use of Phalanx, it made me really wonder about vaccines today and if they really work or if they're just being advertised to help people avoid their fears? When Brooks wrote " "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells. That was my mantra. "Fear sells." ". This really interested me. It made me think about how commercials really sell their items today, and how fear really does sell. Now I know this book is primarily about the zombie war, but this part of the chapter just really stuck out to me. But with the zombie parts, I found them to be in great detail, and when they were happening I felt as if I was really there. Brooks is an awesome writer and I can't wait to read on in this book!