Best Living Dead Novels?

[ZombieGrrL]

I liked the "boring interviews" of World War Z a lot better than the stupid "I am Ob the Obot" crap that Keene's books are about. I hated those. His Dead Sea was good, though. Thankfully, he dropped the "possessed bodies" thing for that one. I know that it's probably hard to come up with a zombie book that has something "different" in it. But I prefer the traditional zombie books. David Wellington's "Monster" books have traditional zombies but also have a similar "supernatural" theme to Brian Keene's books. I just finished Monster Nation and it's my favourite so far, as it deals with the start of the epidemic. Really loved Dead Sea, highly recommend it. I read it after City Of The Dead & it was nice to have an old fashioned zombie novel to lose myself in.

[bd2999]

I liked the "boring interviews" of World War Z a lot better than the stupid "I am Ob the Obot" crap that Keene's books are about. I hated those. His Dead Sea was good, though. Thankfully, he dropped the "possessed bodies" thing for that one Eh, I thought that both of them were good. The whole possessed bodies was an interesting take on it, and I still liked the interviews in WW Z. I think alot of the initial interviews, at are likely to be the boring ones, are very interesting because they are the ones that give you a clue as to why things went to Hell so fast with political rangling and lies and such running amock everywhere. I can see how the interview style could get old and be somewhat hard to read at times, but to be honest I think he holds really true to Romero overall compared to other books, although he does have it being a virus, but that is sort of understated in the WW Z book I believe.

[dirtydwarf]

A book Called The Dead by some guy named Steve Somthing-or-other. Was basically Brian Keene's The Rising long before Briane Keene wrote The Rising. Better though IMOHO.

[SRP76]

Just got done with Dying to Live, by Kim Paffenroth. Thumbs up. Very short, though (only 190 pages).