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The New Zed Order: Survive (2000)

by Todd Sprague(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: Well, like in the movie Bad Santa when the kid opens up a window on his Advent Calendar, finds a candy corn and Billy Bob states, "They can't all be winners kid". Well, that advice reflects my feelings about this novel.The characters are wooden, predictable and one dimensional. If this was even your first venture into the undead world of literature, I believe you would find yourself unimpressed. I found myself praying that the dogs would re-enter the story to bring a smile to my face, at least Mr. Sprague knows canine emotion and behavior.John Mason just has no range, he ended up making me think that the author got too wrapped up reruns of American Dad and inserted Stan Smith into the story, since he is just so tough and can do no wrong. He is so awesome, that after he pu... morenches someone in the face repeatedly, the victim approaches him the next day and apologizes to him.Naming guns and ammunition over and over and over again brought nothing to the table. Hey, I can open up a gun website and insert names of rifles and handguns into a book myself. How about the weight, the preferences, the accuracy, the "kick"? That is what I care about. I did go target shooting this weekend before I read this.I knew I was in for a doozy when the main character's wife Sarah Mason took some time out of soaking in a hot tub, to get out to mix and bake brownies for John. Seriously?I can only surmise that Sarah Mason embodies all that is perfect in woman to this author, high sex drive and the ability to throw kick-ass picnic parties.Repetitive cookie-cutter kills of zombies are peppered throughout the book. How the hell did Sarah's brother become a some bad-ass Mad Max, samurai hero?The Tom Clancy back-story of mysterious "camouflaged" men killing off John Mason's underground survival associates was just plain weak.In the crowded genre of modern Zombie Survival tales, you just have to bring more to the table than a predictable, unoriginal story with a half-assed suspense story.
review 2: Listing this here for the folks who are always looking for good zombie stuff. I read the original self published version, loved it, and ended up editing the Permuted Press re-release. It is available now on Amazon, and every zombie lover should pick up a copy. :-)Here is my original review:I LOVED this, August 10, 2010 By Felicia A. Sullivan I finished this book in one day - found it hard to put down. Finally, someone has gotten it right. This one was GREAT. Good progression, good storylines, believeable characters (though not all of them were well developed), and plausible scenarios. I LOVED how this group came together to survive. I love how John researched and planned and prepared and CARRIED OUT his plans, ensuring the survival of many of his own family and scores of others, strangers, who'd somehow survived. I love his (actually Sprague's, of course) ideas about how to get things accomplished when the zombies really do come (heh). Some of his ideas were things that I had not thought of doing, but were great ideas and I need to hang onto that info for the inevitable zombie uprising. I'm not crazy, I'm just sayin'. I cannot wait for the next installment of this. Loved it, and cannot recommend it enough. **Edited 3/3/11: So....I wound up editing Permuted Press's edition of this book. Having read it now three times, I still would wholeheartedly and enthusiastically recommend this book to zombie lovers everywhere. less

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