Disclaimer: I’ve reviewed this book before, 3 years ago maybe, you can read that here if you like.
I’m teaching Creative Writing this year and I allowed my students to pick the genres we discuss and write in. It’s been a mixed bag. LOL.
One of their choices was Sci Fi scary. You know aliens attacking, etc. But you can only read so many of those examples before, yawn. So I wove in a few other things. A short where the main character is a sentient ship in outer space. The first chapter of The Martian by Andy Weir. And then I talked a little about World War Z because of its unusual style, a pastiche of a sociological study.
This made me want to read it again and see if it was really as great as I remembered. And damn if it wasn’t still amazing. I stayed up half the night reading, again.
It is a fascinating read.
T.A. Henry 
The first chapter of The Martian – so good! I’ve seen the movie WWZ, but haven’t read the book.
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Movie and book are two totally different animals.
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I love WWZ. The book! Not the movie, I hated the movie. I’m still mad they couldn’t just make it documentary style like they should have instead of forcing a Great White American Hero into the story.
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Right? I would so watch the Book as a movie. And I think it could be done because the movie had nothing to do with the book. LOL
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