Summary Of Zombies By Max Brooks

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Max Brooks touches on the fact that zombies were a joke a couple years ago when the reigning monsters were vampires and werewolves but now they have risen to the top of the horror industry. Zombies are taking over movies, television shows, video games and practically any other media form you can think of. Brooks believes the rising fascination of zombies is related to watching the fictional destruction of our society and knowing it is not real and being able to turn it off rather than realizing the downfall that is actually occurring. He believes that zombies have been so popular because it allows people to have a feeling of control because they know the dead cannot rise so watching different scenarios of the world almost ending due to an epidemic

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