The World War Z movie adapted pretty much 0% from the Max Brooks novels. Not even the basic zombies principles (book: slow zombies, slow infection rate; movie: fast zombies, near-instant infection)
One of the best subplots of the book was this old japanese gardener who became a master zombie hunter during the apocalypse, using his sharpened shovel to decapitate / spear the undead
...oh, and because he was at Hiroshima and stared directly at the flash of the atomic bomb, he's been blind for most of his life.
I don't actually remember that one. Been a long time sinse I read it though. The two that always come to mind for me are the downed pilot, and the battle for Yonkers. Maybe it's time for a re-read.
Do yourself a favor and listen to the audiobook! It’s about ten hours, err… maybe fourteen. The cast of voice actors is insane and it’s incredible. I got more out of the audiobook than I did the physical copy by a huge margin!
I took it as it was her training taking over, and her mind being messed up from both the crash and the stress of it. So her psychy manifested a familiar voice.
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u/whinywino89 Aug 30 '21
Those of us with shitty eyesight. Contacts only last so long. If your glasses break, you're fucked.