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I, Zombie Paperback – August 15, 2012

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***WARNING: NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION***

This book contains foul language and fouler descriptions of life as a zombie. It will offend most anyone, so proceed with caution or not at all.

And be forewarned: This is not a zombie book. This is a different sort of tale. It is a story about the unfortunate, about those who did not get away. It is a human story at its rotten heart. It is the reason we can't stop obsessing about these creatures, in whom we see all too much of ourselves.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 15, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1477401296
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1477401293
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.77 x 8 inches
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Hugh Howey is New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of WOOL, MACHINE LEARNING, SAND, BEACON 23, and many others. His works have been translated into over 40 languages with millions of copies sold around the world. WOOL has been adapted into Silo, a TV show from AppleTVPlus. A show based on BEACON 23 is due out in 2023 from AMC. Hugh lives between New York and the UK with his wife, Shay.

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titania86
5.0 out of 5 stars A new zombie perspective
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2013
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I, Zombie follows a variety of zombies through their everyday lives: shuffling around, attacking humans, rotting, and moaning. That doesn't sound too exciting, does it? This book has the only zombies I have ever seen that have fully conscious, normal people behind those vacant, rotting faces. Zombies are horrifying enough on their own (walking dead that want to eat us), but putting a person that can't communicate or control their actions inside each one makes the situation infinitely worse. The horror isn't just for the survivors; it's even more so for the zombies. They are a captive audience to every meal eaten, their bodies degenerating, and whatever action their body takes while experiencing it with all of their senses. Every wound is excruciating and they can't even make the slightest move to alleviate the pain.

Although the existence is the same with every person, their reactions, emotions, and experiences differ from person to person. One religious woman thought she was being damned for sins during her life and she continually reflected on her life. Another very old woman was elated to be able to move again and delighted in feeding off the young after she had been in a nursing home, immobile and waiting to die. A survivalist woman reflects on the irony that she was so prepared in her apartment for the apocalypse, but isn't even wearing shoes in her current existence. A drug addict suddenly realizes that his mother could still be there inside her wasting, unresponsive body and that she knew when he beat her or shot up heroin in front of her. Some wish to die, while others prefer to exist in some manner rather than be permanently dead. One even wanted to turn his friends into zombies, giving in to the uncontrollable urges of his body. The thought processes of each person were fascinating to read. Hugh Howey did a wonderful job of capturing the voices of vastly different people from Alaskan tourists to high powered business people to drug addicts. Each chapter changed in tone and completely immersed me in each character's story from their perspective.

This book is incredibly bleak. There is really no hope for anyone. The humans have no idea the zombies have any sort of consciousness left and are either eaten by them or kill them indiscriminately. The zombies know that other zombies are conscious, but are damned to be utterly alone. Each zombie is trapped in their own mind and realized what they should have done with their lives before it was considered a luxury to be able to move or scratch your nose or decide which direction you want to walk. They realize they were already zombies when they were alive, not doing the things they really wanted to do. The little things added up and take away what free will they had, like addiction, drive to fit societal norms, fear, boredom, and the comfort of familiarity.

I, Zombie is an amazing book that grabbed me right from the beginning. The disconnected narratives worked well in painting a horrifying picture from so many different perspectives. It's not for the faint of heart as there are a great many descriptions of eating people, rotting, and various bodily functions. I highly recommend this to any zombie fan looking for a thought provoking and depressing read.
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Charla
4.0 out of 5 stars I, Zombie -- Emotions from the black side.
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2012
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I am a real person! This is my honest opinion of I, Zombie, not some bullsh*t that someone may have gotten paid to produce!
Hugh Howey does not subscribe to that kind of deception! His readers would not tolerate it!

I have never ever read anything even remotely related to zombies - it's just not my thing. When I discovered that Hugh (Yes, I feel comfortable calling him by his first name, jump on the band wagon and you will see why.) was going to write a zombie book, I did not hesitate to buy it. In fact, I preordered.

You know what I am talking about. When you find an author that you enjoy, you read all of their work. Same here. I love the way he writes. Original and beautifully descriptive, realistic, thought-provoking, introspective, clever, emotional, straight-forward, real - those are only some of the things that I love about Hugh's writing.

All the things I love about Hugh's writing are included within I, Zombie, plus an added dimension of gore that extended way beyond what I expected. Not just gore for gore's sake, but relevant, descriptive, graphic, and disturbing. But not as disturbing as "Emotions from the black side," of which this book is filled.

At first I was put off by the segmenting of the story. There is no beginning, middle, and end, in a traditional sense. Each chapter is a glimpse into the inner workings of the zombie mind. Chapters are short and concise, thus allowing readers to adjust to the concept of jumping back and forth between characters while not getting too involved with one and skipping the others to get back to your favorite. Interesting format that took a second for me to adjust to, but once I did, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It kept the pace of the book quick and diversified.

Damn, I hate reading long reviews and here I am writing one! Let me wrap up by giving some key concepts and quotes from I, Zombie that have stuck with me. If these even remotely tickle your curiosity, then you should give this book a read.
 Righteous damnation
 Lifetime of regret
 Shuffle
 Little fictions
 Sharp shooter
 "Shhh. It's okay, baby. It's okay."
 "Strips of clothing were tied together."
 "Emotions from the black side."
 Embracing one's evil
 A friend for Chiang Xian
 Baby on a pole
 The Pylons
 Glass slippers
 Office baby
 Grandma predator
 Green hat
 Discarded fruit
 "KILL ME! DIE DIE DIE DIE "
 Emotional stitching

In the end, it leaves you, not with closure, not with hope, but with the possibility that this nightmare may never end.

I am deducting one star, for a rating of 4 stars, due to my pure, unadulterated bias.
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David L.
3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Feelings
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2012
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First of all let me say that I think Howey is an incredibly talented writer. I could go on forever, but to sum up the man knows how to tell a story. And tell it well.

Secondly, I am a big fan of end of the world fiction, especially zombie stuff. Wool is phenomenal and I would compare the writing in "I, Zombie" with Mira Grant's Newsflesh books in quality (I just finished them).

That said, I've had the book for a week or so now and I can't get past the first few chapters. And it's not Howey's fault. Like I said his writing rocks. And this story is a good one.

It's my fault.

It's just that I enjoy stories with a some hope in them. Sure, zombie stories are by their very nature kind of hopeless. No matter what you do, people get eaten in them. Or bit and turned. No matter how careful the characters are someone you have grown fond of is going to die. But usually there is some small flicker of hope that in the end someone is going to survive. Or that humanity is going to survive.

Not in this book.

In this book, there is no hope because the characters are already lost. They cannot be saved. Even if one of them is put down by that epic shot to the head you, the reader, don't feel any relief because you know there are millions of others like them out there, helpless, hopeless, and full of self-loathing (which is the worst part).

So my recommendation - much like a more professional review of this book I read a while back - is to read it if you don't mind a book with no light at the end of the tunnel. Not even a candle flicker's worth of hope. Cause there ain't none, son.

But if that doesn't matter to you and you want to read a horror story which is imaginative, well written and just kicks you in the gut (much like Stephen King's "Pet Cemetery"), then this is the book for you.
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Helmut Lichtenegger
5.0 out of 5 stars Spannende Geschichte aus Sicht der Zombis
Reviewed in Germany on September 19, 2017
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Was fühlen Zombies, wie ergeht es ihnen bei der Jagd auf Menschen. Ein interessantes Buch aus Sicht mehrerer Zombies und die Vergänglichkeit ihrer Körper
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C. Richards
5.0 out of 5 stars What an amazing way to look at a zombie apocalypse
Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2014
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What an amazing way to look at a zombie apocalypse. Love Howey's ability to develop complex characters with backstories and emotions so quickly. I'm not a zombie fan typically, but 28 Days Later and The Walking Dead stirred my interest. I, Zombie has only enhanced my interest! What ARE those zombies thinking!?! Read this to find out, it's not what you think, it's a serious examination of humanity.
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Igor Smirnov
5.0 out of 5 stars Harrowing and haunting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2012
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Fresh from reading the book, I decided I have to pitch in with praise for this outstanding novel in a popular genre. I'll save you a recap of the plot - you can glean it from the other reviews - and simply restrict myself to my own thoughts and experiences.

Having read a number of books on the zombie theme lately (yep, the cold turkey of waiting for "The Walking Dead" to come back demands sating), I have been frustrated on numerous occasions by the cliches, the lack of imagination and thought, the plastic two-dimensional characters and, on many occasions, the absence of any writing skill ("she smashed her hand into the gravel and her hand bled from where it hit the gravel" is just one example).

"I, Zombie", however, delivered exactly what I craved and did so eloquently, creatively, memorably. The writer is definitely not simply a fan retelling a Romero film he'd seen, filling the pages with explosions, clumsy non-sentences, and come-with-me-if-you-wanna-live-style platitudes. There is a style here, language used to convey thought and emotion concisely and accurately, description apt to create scene, image and feeling.

Furthermore, admirably and, undoubtedly, due partly to the premise of the book (the plot being told from zombies' point of view), the author has really thought out the scenario and his characters, paid attention to small detail and added some excellent fine touches. This was certainly important to me as my above-mentioned frustration at other works often comes from niggling and unadressed questions such as: "what happens if a zombie breaks bones?" or "do zombies eat anyone completely or do they stop when they've turned their prey into zombies?" and so on.

As for satisfying that craving to be scared, disgusted, despaired and depressed (almost a perversion but one common to so many of us, I am sure) - this book certainly did it all. There is plenty of shockiong forthright gore, as well as ample horror suggested and developed slowly, where it creeps into your mind in chilling snippets, nuances, finally becoming a vivid picture that your mind wonders back to long after you've moved on with the story... Brrr! There is also plenty of that vision of the apocalyptic world, cruel and strange where it was once homely and commonplace, to leave you imagining how you would fare.

To sum up: a well-written, original, captivating read, in my opinion. Scary, cringe-inducing, thought-provoking and just plain entertaining, all in all. And even free from those annoying typos that seem to plague these sorts of books!
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Lorelei Douglas
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book from Hugh Howey
Reviewed in Australia on July 13, 2015
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Hugh Howey cannot be faulted. I have not read a book he has authored that I have not enjoyed. This is no different. Mr Howey writes the stories from the perspective of the Zombies in the apocalypse. Insightful and sensitive.
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JS Rioux
4.0 out of 5 stars very unique, told in 1st person!
Reviewed in Canada on October 7, 2013
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This was a very entertaining story, who knew that Zombies could hold on to the person deep inside?
It's really gross too, lots of feeding scenes, not for the faint of heart!
Really worth the Kindle price I paid.
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