Chapters 1,2,3 of WW Z A Farcical Adventure

In the first chapter of this book the author goes on about the world they live in, and establishes a solid setting and tone for what the book will be. What he fails to do here is mention that in this make believe world there is no such thing as the Internet and word of mouth is also conspicuously absent. Speaking of things that are conspicuously absent among others I would also say that any idea of the average intelligence of a human being is nowhere to be found. Chapter 2 is the beginning of the interviews, and it starts off with the account of a Chinese doctor and his encounter with several people bitten by a young boy who has turned into a zombie. The next few interviews are with people who had experience with zombies before the situation became public, and with survivors of zombie attacks. The interviewees are mostly shown to be fairly human in their responses to the zombies "holy shit run away" is by far the most commonly shown. The human trafficker in the second interview is shown to be unlike any real human trafficker by his behavior surrounding infected people and zombies, now I am no human trafficker myself but I am almost one hundred percent sure that, while they would usually transport psychopathic killers to other countries for exorbitant fees, they would probably refuse to transport psychopathic killers that are directly wanting to kill them, especially if that psychopathic killer does not even speak and just makes angry growling noises. The human trafficker goes on of course to become even more stupid, sinking down to a sub-brick level by this point in his transport of infected individuals which fortunately for the book makes some degree of sense as the infection does not seem to be transmissible by the same means as the flu or any other disease (excepting rabies, but not really). This is because above all having an entire shipment of human beings who are your responsibility die because you brought someone with Ebola along with you when transporting them is to say the least not good for business it will also leave you with a large number of dead bodies to dispose of which will attract the attention of the authority who will in real life probably not tolerate you digging a mass grave/ leaving dozens of dead bodies to rot. Of course this is a fictional book and everyone in a position of authority is either corrupt or in a polite way to put it "of less than average intelligence", so the transporting of the zombies and infected goes off without a hitch putting zombies and soon to be zombies across the globe. The third chapter consists of interviews with people in power and begins to show the sheer unbelievability of the story and the characters involved in it, as well as a healthy misunderstanding of how communication works. The book shows that people unlike in the real world assume things to be false when told anything rather than in the real world where people assume truth when told anything. No country or person in the book except Israel believe it when their friends, relatives, colleague, or government tells them that zombies exist. Israel of course believes that zombies exist because upon a tiny bit of digging it turns out that the grandparents of Max Brooks the author were in fact Jewish, thankfully it makes sense, what does not make sense however is the fact that literally every other country around the world does absolutely nothing in response when Israel goes into a voluntary quarantine. All other country on the globe then show increasing displays of stupidity ranging from not telling other people that zombies exist to outright denying and covering up the fact that zombies exist in their country. One of these interviews starts not so subtly with a former politician shoveling shit literally of course. This shows me exactly what the authors view of politicians is. My favorite part of this book is how nonsensical the zombies are, it says that if for example a person gets a skin graft from someone who was infected they will become infected with the and eventually become a zombie, this makes a moderate amount of sense but then veers into the nonsensical territory when it shows that the infection is literally unstoppable by the human immune system which should of course mean any contact with the zombie, literally any contact should infect a person, and it should also make breathing air that has been anywhere near a zombie should infect a person as well as being scratched of course but the books says the infection is not spread by air. The zombies are shown to be dead and have no heartbeat showing an utter disregard for conservation of energy, physiology, anatomy, physics, and chemistry. Of course this could all be explained away by the zombies being supernatural or the infection being cause by some genetically engineered physics defying virus (probably from space or some other bullhonky).