was a fun zombie book told from the POV of the zombie himself, While not the first Ive read from this perspective, it is the first where the zombie retained his humanity and could control his desires to eat everyones brains.
It was a bit longer than I would have liked it felt a bit dragged down by all the walking in the countryside.
Also, there was no explanation for the dead coming to life and then the sudden stop of this phenomenon, It was mentioned in the story itself that they didnt know why it happened but this felt like a bit of a cop out.
While not the best Ive read, this would still go on my list of zombie books I would recommend.
. . if you like zombies, that is, There are some cool components to this book, most importantly the shift in perspective where you are following a zombie as the protagonist instead of a band of humans.
One element that cropped up from time to time did take me out of the story was some of dialogue choices.
The main character is portrayed as a middle aged college philosophy professor, However he spouts a lot of "dudes" and "awesome" and "wtf's", It sometimes felt like I was reading "Dude Where's My Car", I didn't feel like this choice really matched up with the character but this was not major a issue,
Overall an enjoyable, if forgettable read that doesn't fully succeed in turning the genre on it's head the way it was intended.
I have a huge affinity for zombie books, coming across this some years ago, And it was AWESOME. A very unique turn of the genre at the time, humorous and fun, it was a book that I read all in one sitting.
If you love the apocalypse and zombie scenarios, I highly recommend this one of a kind story, This one just didn't do it for me, The premise was good, the story interesting, but it just dragged on too long, too many words that I wound up just skipping over, Hahaha, first person zombie POV! Hahhaha, I was so very amused! Hence the "hahaha ing, " It must have been well done because I found myself thinking like a zombie which, all told, may not be that much of a stretch some days.
What makes me laugh is that I do consider myself a bit of a literary snob and I would once have thought, "Oh, zombie literature Please! Get that away from me!" And now, this year, I'm all "Give me more, give me more.
" You just never know, right
I am looking for a really nice weekly planner with pages that are not so thin the ink shows through.
I know, this has nothing to do with "Zombie, Ohio. " But it kind of does because as I spent far too long online looking and reading reviews of planners I thought, "This and all my stupid appointments are not going to be an issue at all once we hit zombie apocalypse time.
" And then I hahaha'ed some more, just for good measure,
I was going to give this a three and then a three and a half but I don't like halves and I thought oh, don't be so miserly, give it the solid four.
Only read it if you like zombie things, There.
Happy first day of autumn, dear readers,
Pam/Fishgirl speaking of which, a terrible fishing year, Super hot, no rain. Wells ran dry. Rivers got closed to fishing, We do so need some rain in these parts, The zombie apocalypse has started and now anyone who dies with their brain still intact becomes a zombie, The main character, Peter Mellor, wakes up as a zombie minutes after crashing his car into a tree, He doesnt know hes a zombie at first and thinks that hes only suffering from memory loss since he cant even recall his own name.
He finds his wallet and learns his mane is Peter then grabs a knit hat out of his car for the cold even though, surprisingly, he cant feel anything.
He finally discovers he is a zombie when he goes to the bathroom to wash his face, removes his hat, and realizes that the tip of his head is gone.
From then on he keeps a hat on at all times and fools people into thinking hes human, He wonders how hes still able to talk and make decisions at an intellectual level while every other zombie just moans and attacks any human they see.
Peter discovers that his car was tampered with so now hes wondering why hes different and who tried to murder him.
I think people who enjoy science fiction or fantasy type books would enjoy this story since its based on the zombie apocalypse.
Peter also has a love interest so girls in particular would probably enjoy that aspect of the book, Overall Peter is a very humorous character always making stupid puns so if you like your characters to have a sense of humor this would appeal to you as well.
.stars. Here it is, the novel that popped my zombie fiction cherry, I don't know why it took me so long to read a zombie novel but I'm glad that this was my first.
As our book club selection for April, this was a wonderful way to get spring started,
This is an atypical zombie story with an unusual approach to the genre, While working within the zombie framework, the book tackles some deep subjects while never becoming heavy handed or preachy, I really enjoyed the tone and I found myself busting out in fits of laughter many times, There are also great moments of pagegripping tension and suspense and some tearjerking scenes too, Very cool! I was looking for a light, fun, entertaining read and, boy, am I glad I found this one.
It hit all the buttons, It's humorous, thoughtful, entertaining and just a bunch of fun to read,
Peter awakes after a car accident and, a bit later, finds out that he's dead and a zombie.
But not an ordinary zombie, . a walking, thinking, talking zombie, He has amnesia, he's uncertain about how he fits in, what to believe and how to get along,
The story unfolded as one of redemption and labelling,
When a person/being is labelled, do they begin to behave as that label Do they lose their true selves through this label
Peter slowly learns of his past and his mistakes.
As a zombie, he begins to decide who he is and the man he would like to be,
It's a thoughtful story on a few levels,
I'm glad I picked this book up, I thoroughly enjoyed it. With the first page we know there is something “different” about Peter Mellor, Peter is a zombie. He wakes up not knowing who he is or where he is, It seems that he has been in a fatal car accident, hence the zombification, His memory of anything before the wreck is spotty at best, Title of the rock song on the radio No idea, The year Clueless. The Simpsons Yes, and he specifically remembers Chief Wiggum, This is what makes Peter special, He is a zombie, but he can remember some events, feelings, and memories, He can even remember what sarcasm is and on more than one occasion uses it,
Peter sets out to find people not to eat them, though, He learns he has a girlfriend who he really cares about, and decidesf to find her, At this point Peter is still passing as a human, albeit a sicklooking one, He has not had any of the delicious zombie staple, brains, Gradually, the human that Peter was before and the zombie that he is now, meld, Peter is able to justify the eating of human brains because zombies are higher on the food chain, He gathers his own gang of zombies and they travel throughout the countryside, feasting on any humans that cross their path.
This makes him happy for a while, or at least as happy as a zombie can get, In the end, though, Peters residual humanness rears its head and he finally has to decide who or what he is.
This book is in turns funny and profound, It definitely left me with unexpected thoughts and feelings, It left me with ideas and concepts that I mulled over days after I finished the book, I would highly recommend it for library collections,
Contains: Strong language, gory violence,
ed by: Brandi Blankenship This wasn't my cup of tea, It was well written and had a good storyline, but it wasn't for me, There are numerous first person accounts of the inevitable zombie apocalypse everything from sitelinkWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War to sitelinkDay by Day Armageddon: there are remarkably fewer books, like Zombie, Ohio, were the narrator is a zombie.
I was initially turned off by the idea of a zombie protagonist arguing if the he is cognizant enough to think than he isnt really a zombie.
The positive reviews on both Goodreads and Amazon convinced me to give this short book a try, While the concept could have gone horribly wrong a healthy dose of humor and not taking itself too seriously makes the story an enjoyable read.
Zombie, Ohio opens with the protagonists Peter Mellor death and him waking up with a case of amnesia and no pulse.
Peter has retained vague memories about his past life and the ability to reason and talk, which puts him in a strange category between living and undead.
Instantly a bunch of questions came to mind “Why can he talk” , “How is this story being recorded”,, “Is this book just going to bepages of him trying to unzombie himself and/or eat brains” .
All of these questions are answered, some more satisfyingly than others, but what really made this story work for me was how the author paralleled the traditional zombie story arc in a new way.
Most zombie stories have a hearty band of survivors who must deal with the relentless assault of the undead while humanity decays around them.
In Zombie. Ohio Peter, a former philosophy professor, is the one doing the decaying as he struggles to find his place among a mindless horde of zombies that accept him and the human survivors who he relates.
Peter must come to terms with his death and his new role as a braineating zombie, We see him struggle with the
morality of eating people and trying to decide if it matters whether his victims are old, young, good or evil.
Atpages this is a quick read and enjoyable for anyone who has read numerous other zombie books.
The ending is predictable and there are numerous bad puns to make you groan but the humor and absurdity of the concept will keep you reading.
Reread! I read this story once before! Our protagonist and narator, Peter Mellor, lifts this book above the average level of zombie gorefest.
Our story begins with him awakening by the side of a highway after an accident, unlcear as to how it happened due to partial amnesia.
This sets us up for a voyage of discovery as Peter recovers his identity, realizes that his accient occurred at the height of a zombie apocalypse, and that he did not survive the crash.
It's a few pages more before he discovers the tastiness of brains,
What follows is the story of a zombie apocalypse from the unlikely perspective of a zombie, It's a story chock full of dark humor as Peter empbraces his new "life", having been reborn with all the emotions and instincts that go with it.
Peter's a happy corpse a grateful dead, though at times he's confounded be the unexpected complexities of zombie life, Skulls are not actually as easy to open as they are in the movies,
This novel is not entirely free of faults, Peter's character is morally inconsistent, varying back and forth between being a friend to humans to being a selfsuperior predator and back again to suit the needs of the narative.
And the background setting has not evolved much beyond usual rural landscape of survivors, outlaw gangs, and semiconspiratorial military we've known since the early days of the genre.
However, these faults are too minor to deaden the fun of sharing a zombie's eye view of an apocalypse,
What a weird, funny book, Danny Campbell is the narrator, and he was splendid at being a zombie, The novel itself is an easy, light read, from the zombie's point of view, There was not much of a mystery in it, like the blurbs say, The black turkey was my favorite character of all, for all his eccentricities, All in all, a good novel,stars. don't think i've ever read a duller zombie book then this: Not my cup of tea in regards to what I look for in a good zombie tale.
Maybe I am being unreasonable in my star rating and review of this book, but I am female and prone to illogical leaps of fancy.
I really did enjoy this book and will read the rest of this series, yet I can not give more thanhere's why, . .
star for lack of noir that I was promised on the book jacket, I am a huge fan of noir and very picky on my zombie books, Being promised noir in a zombie book was one of the biggest reasons I picked up this series to read.
Sadly a search from cover to cover and between the lines failed to produce one inkling of noir, :
star for the ending, For me any movie, book, story, etc, is made by the beginning and the end, If the beginning is intriguing or action packed it will suck me in and make me stay even if the story slows in the middle.
The end though is just as important it has to wrap everything up for me in a nice red bow.
I don't mind cliffhangers as long as I know there's more in the series, I ABSOLUTELY hate ambiguous endings where you can draw your own conclusions or surmise what happens next, UM no! This is your story to tell as the author not mine, Don't imply what happens. I feel like I know what happens but again its not my story, I didn't buy the book so that I could fill in the blanks, Grrr. Big pet peeve of mine,
Sorry for ranting, but I usually don't rate books low when I do I feel I need to explain myself.
Those that know me know I'm pretty easy going on books, If I'm entertained, it did its job,stars, If I have expectations about a book and get let down I can be pretty harsh, .
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