Author: John Green
Genre: Fiction (Zombie Appocolypse Novella)
Favourite Quote/Fact: “You know who else used to be people?” she
asked me after a while. “We did. And they took that away from us.”
What's it about?: Mia is a teenaged girl in the post-apocalypse after a strain of disease stemming from corn has ridden most of the world "Z'ed up", this is her telling of the events that came to pass and as they were passing.
My Thoughts:
It always astounds me how amazing John Green really is, and it's not just because his project is the project from which mine springs. He really is just a very good writer, and I can't even describe it to you but despite only being 38 pages I tore through this down-loadable novella like so many bullets through a gaggle of zombies. Also he claims it's bad, well sir, your worst work still trumps all of mine put together. Every time I found a favourite quote another one popped out and was like "No no I'm more awesome" and when I did have to put down a favourite quote it was a frazzling experience.
I liked Mia a lot, she's smart and she's interesting and very much feels for the people that used to be zombies. Though my shining favourite in this would have to be Caroline, kind of crazy and almost seeming heartless she's a good contrast to Mia. I liked Caroline because she knows what she has to do and does it, despite the ramifications. Caroline with her bruised shoulders always going after the Z'ed with a sort of a fervour, an over zealous enjoyment.
I liked this novella because seamlessly in the middle of killing zombies and surviving Mia is talking to you about who we are and why we do things, and the desire to be remembered for the things worth remembering. It raises a philosophical debate in the ashes of what was once civilization. Which is so very human of us, it really is. We're complicated and irrational and will cling to an idea just to have something to cling to. In our bleakest hour when there is nothing but death we'll still contemplate the meaning of it all, and want things we have no business wanting. It raises a lot of good questions and makes you think. Also I teared up a bit, a perfect image painted in a scene that isn't so many words long.
*sighs* Oh John Green, you're that girl who says she's fat when she's about two inches wide. "Bad" is not a word I'd use to describe this novella at all.
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