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Zone One Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Colson Whitehead (Author), Beresford Bennett (Narrator), Random House AudioBooks (Publisher)

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In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilisation under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka Zone One - but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety - the 'malfunctioning' stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams working in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world. And then things start to go wrong. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.

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Listening Length	9 hours and 57 minutes
Author	Colson Whitehead
Narrator	Beresford Bennett
Audible.in Release Date	06 October 2011
Publisher	Random House AudioBooks
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B079WVHGB4
Best Sellers Rank	#35,551 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals) #430 in Adventure Science Fiction #571 in Horror Fiction #1,716 in Literary Fiction

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Mrs T

Bit of a struggle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 July 2019

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I like zombies! Love zombies. They dont love me though. I enjoyed the new approach to zombies in this novel and there are some new ideas and zombie antics that are very enjoyable but, BUT, it doesnt half go on. And on. And on. And on. And on. It's like the author has his word count on and is using a thesaurus to get to his target. I'm half way through and the zombie bits are great but then it goes off on a tangent right in the middle of the action and remembers back to some boring thing that is probably meant to be intellectual but I just wanted back to the action. I got half way through and decided to take my own tangential approach and start reading different books, one day I may return to see the end but the pace is so slow I may expire before I get there.

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V. G. Harwood

Not sure that Literary Zombies work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2016

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I love a good zombie book, so when this one was recommended to me (at an academic conference of all places) as being a literary take on the genre, I thought I'd give it a try.

I've got to say, after reading it I'm not at all sure that the "literary zombie" works. The first section read as overwritten with far too much description. In fact, this continues throughout the novel (why use one word when eighty will do?) and as a result it gets hard to follow where in the narrative you are with the main character, Mark Spitz. There's an awful lot of introspection/how he got where he was which is mingled with the main action and it can sometimes be hard to follow the train of thought.

That said, after the first third (where I nearly gave up), I started to get it a bit more. This, it seemed to me, is a satire on how we live now (like zombies) - it's all too easy to see yourself as one of the stragglers that Mark Spitz is clearing up. I loved the idea that Mark Spitz had the feeling that optimism (hope for the returning world) would destroy the human race. (At the same academic conference where this was recommended to me, the notion of "cruel optimism" was discussed - the feeling that things will get better when they never do and never will which undoes people).

This was okay as a book - I had to read it in one sitting or I would have given up completely and also lost my thread. It's not the best zombie book I've ever read, but it is a thoughtful one.

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PH3282

The Last Night of the World

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2019

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A brilliant take on the zombie apocalypse. Not an easy read - you need to pay attention as the narrative weaves its complex web - but intelligent, thought-provoking, and gripping. Despite its literary chops it’s as action-packed, breathless, and gore-drenched as any of its pulp brethren. Couldn’t put it down...

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Steve Kenny

Horror or war novel?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2014

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Set a fair time after survivors of an apocalypse have organised themselves into a military society of sorts, this novel reads more like a Vietnam or Gulf War story than horror. The "soldiers" patrol the streets of New York, clearing out zombies, some who have a condition where they perform a repetitious series of acts which are an echo of their former lives. The survivors don't take these particular "walkers" very seriously, and this turns out badly for one of the main characters. The main male character is known as Mark Spitz, and story behind this sobriquet is revealed fairly late on in the book, as is his pre-sweeper life. Called a literary horror novel mainly because of Whitehead's past work. It is certainly a serious novel, but can be read as a thriller too, with a number of exciting set pieces. Not sure if Whitehead will return to genre writing, but has made a good job it it with this one.

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A Chain

Not gripping but some interesting parts

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2021

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This was ok. Didn’t grab me at all unfortunately. A bit rambling. Got it because it is supposed to be a zombie classic but I don’t know why. There are some strong parts but mostly I found it a slow read and was glad to get to the end.

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