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World War Z by Max Brooks

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when zombies return from the dead. But a zombie mania at the dawn of the 21st century did catch me unawares.

The undead had kept a low profile since George Romero’s cult classic The Night of the Living Dead (1968), made on a minuscule budget of $114,000 but destined for preservation in the National Film Registry for its '…

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