The Making of Zombie Wars: A Novel
Written by Aleksandar Hemon
Narrated by Chris Patton
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised
Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancée of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek.
Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandparents are survivors, but he's tantalizingly close to achieving deflowerment, so when a Nazi hunter arrives in town in pursuit of Grandpa, he has to distract him long enough to get laid. A riotous Holocaust comedy. Title: The Righteous Love.
Script idea #196: Rock star high out of his mind freaks out during a show, runs offstage, and is lost in streets crowded with his hallucinations. The teenage fan who finds him keeps the rock star for himself for the night. Mishaps and adventures follow. This one could be a musical: Singin' in the Brain.
Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It's domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and as Josh's choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo and lives in Chicago. He is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, Love and Obstacles, and The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work also appears regularly in the New Yorker and Granta, among other publications.
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Reviews for The Making of Zombie Wars
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5So this book wasn't what I was expecting- light on zombies, heavy on drama. This book is about the main character (a self-proclaimed slacker named Joshua) and his journey through writing a screen play about zombie wars. During crucial periods in his life, Josh composes blurbs of screen plays to act out the scenario.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm a big fan of Hemon and am in awe of his talent. I'm not sure to whom I'd recommend this particular novel, however. I found it very funny generally, but it also felt a bit overstuffed and maybe jumbled. There's too much going on, perhaps, or too many moving parts. The ending provides a clever payoff if you stick with it. But I don't feel right criticizing this particular author, who is so tremendously gifted. Perhaps it just wasn't the book for me.