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Hugh Howey

I, Zombie Kindle Edition

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***WARNING: NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION***

This book contains foul language and fouler descriptions of life as a zombie. It will offend most anyone, so proceed with caution or not at all.

And be forewarned: This is not a zombie book. This is a different sort of tale. It is a story about the unfortunate, about those who did not get away. It is a human story at its rotten heart. It is the reason we can't stop obsessing about these creatures, in whom we see all too much of ourselves.

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Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde Saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling WOOL series. The WOOL OMNIBUS won Kindle Book Review's 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award - it has been as high as #1 in the Kindle store - and 17 countries have picked up the work for translation. Look for WOOL in hardback in 2013 from Random House UK and keep your fingers crossed that Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian will do something exciting with the film rights! Hugh lives in Jupiter, FL with his wife Amber and their dog Bella. When he isn't writing, he's reading or taking a photograph. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008PIHXS6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Broad Reach Publishing (July 25, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 25, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 739 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 308 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1477401296
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #507,811 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,431 in Occult Horror
- #5,086 in Occult Fiction
- #88,180 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Hugh Howey is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde saga and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling WOOL series. The WOOL OMNIBUS won Kindle Book Review's 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award — it has been as high as #1 on Amazon — and 40 countries have picked up the work for translation. Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian are adapting the work for 20th Century Fox.

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Lisa A. Morrow

Most disturbing zombie novel I've ever read

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2019

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I've always been a fan of Samuel Peralta's Future Chronicle anthologies, and when I discovered he included one devoted to the zombie apocalypse ( The Z Chronicles ), I instantly bought it and enjoyed it so much, I later purchased three (3) novels that were excerpted from that anthology, including this book by Hugh Howey (whose short story "Gloria" originated from here).
Of all the zombie novels I've ever read, this one is the most gut wrenching because it tells everything from the zombie's point of views, captives inside a rotting prison unable to control the horrifying violence they inflict upon the living survivors within a post-apocalyptic New York City. And even though they're dead, their nervous systems still function so they can FEEL the devastation inflicted on their rotting corpses.
One tells the gut-wrenching story of a pregnant zombie who has a living baby developing within her decomposing womb, which reminded me of a similar short story by Les Daniels included in the zombie anthology {{ASIN:055327998X Book of the Dead}}, yet this story was even more heartbreaking.
Unfortunately, this book's conclusion was . . . surprisingly . . . anticlimactic.

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Jasweet10

Good zombie books

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2018

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I’m always on the lookout for zombie books.

Wait.

Correct that.

Good zombie books. Zombie books, like zombie movies can be hit or miss and most of them have a very similar story.
1.Character realizes it’s the end of the world
2.World is crawling with the undead.
3.Character survives, watches friends and family die (or not)
4.Character must secure shelter/food/guns
5.Character may or may not have skirmishes with other survivors- usually there are skirmishes.
6.Character lives/overcomes (or not).

Voila! Zombie book achieved.

Not this time, bro.

I, Zombie is none of that. This book is told from the perspective of the zombies and the zombies are traditional and gory. It’s hard to talk about this without giving away spoilers. No spoilers.

This book is gory AF (and done right, might I add) and creative AF. That’s right. This book was creative! Creative and refreshing for the zombie genre – can I get a hizzzzahhhh!!

This is a fantastic zombie read.

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The Dark Amazon Shopper

Howey's Best Writing, And One of His Best Premises

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2016

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This is my favorite book by Hugh Howey, which is a little weird because I'm usually not a huge horror fan (though, I do love Stephen King and Richard Mathieson), but then again, this story isn't really a horror tale, I mean, there's lots of gore (and great descriptions of it), but there's more going on here than that—a lot more.

Firstly, the book tells the story through the eyes of the zombies, those who are infected with the zombie virus and can no longer control their bodies. Their minds are completely intact, and they can feel and smell everything that happens to them, but they have no control over any of it. They're forced to watch themselves devour friends, family, and countless strangers (women, children, everyone's fair game to a zombie), and we're in their head while they do it.

The story shifts through the heads of several characters. Some die (the lucky few), but most are forced to shuffle on in an endless search for fresh meat. We're often told the story of how they were turned in a flashback memory of the character whose head we're currently in. Often times we find that their life was more similar to the zombie life they're now living than they would like to admit. They did the same things day in and day out, almost without thinking, almost without making a choice at all, which is now all their lives are. No choice, none at all.

Which is the real beauty of the book. The sadness it makes us feel for flesh eating creatures. Creatures any of us could become, if we don't choose to make the decisions we wish we had. It's a great read, I recommend it for anyone who can handle a little gore, and doesn't mind a story with little hope for the main characters.

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Brian Switzer

Definitely not the feel-good hit of the summer

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015

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I, Zombie is a study in lack of control and the inability to prevent the horrific acts you see yourself about to commit.

New York City is full of Zombies. They're your typical zoms, pursuing the living, catching them ripping them to shreds and eating the juiciest parts. But inside each of these mindless creatures is a thinking, sentient being- the person who was bitten and thus turned.

The beings watch, horrified and unable to control their own bodies, as they slaughter and eat people, including their own loved ones. They taste the flesh and feel the hot blood, as the gorge themselves but relishing the meat as well. The feel the pain of the endless injuries they incur- bones broken, flesh torn, bullet wounds, feet and hands torn to shreds. For all the horror there is nothing they can do to end it, for they are but passengers in their shambling, stumbling new bodies.

As the characters walk aimlessly and endlessly, the thinking beings inside watch their former bodies deteriorate and decay. They have nothing to occupy their minds with except the horror of what they have become and the regrets they have from their time before. A junkie is trapped with nothing to do but remember the despicable things he would do to get high. Men remember love taken but not returned; women remember failing to reach for their girlhood dreams.

There are a bit of Howey's zombies in all of us. As we careen through life, driven by forces bigger than us, buffeted by forces beyond our control, we watch with horror the wreckage of the dreams we had for ourselves, unable to stop the actions that cause that wreckage.

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Emmster

Unusual...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2012

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I'm in two minds about this book. On the one hand it turns the Zombie novel on its head; being written as several parallel threads - each one a sort of "week in the life of a zombie". On the other, it was one of those novels that didn't seem to have a really meaty plot, focusing more on the immediate dilemmas of each undead protagonist. In that sense I suppose it's the most literary zombie novel I've read to-date.

The unfortunate zombies are a little like those suffering from "locked in syndrome" i.e. they are neurologically sound, yet have no control over their bodies. The difference being that, in the novel, their bodies are moving around autonomously, ripping people to pieces and chowing down. And on that note: there's plenty of gore for those with "the hunger", one scene in particular will, I'm sure, come to be labelled as "The office scene". No punches are pulled with regards to who gets eaten, and some interesting, previously unconsidered hygiene issues also come up.

I think, on the whole, it was a good read. I started this morning and I'm now finished - so it obviously gripped me. It is novel and well written - I was just expecting a wee bit more plot.

I think if you like Zombie fiction and fancy a change from the norm - you'll like it. But remember...it's the Zombie's point of view - they don't brandish guns, leap from pillar to post, or decapitate their victims with Samurai swords; they don't have much going for them except a back-story, internal monologue and an insatiable desire for fleeeeeesh.

12 people found this helpful

Nice to get a fresh perspective in the zombie genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2014

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After reading zombie novels obsessively for a while, I thought that I was done with the genre. The only reason I bought this book was because it was by an author that I already liked. I'm glad that I did decide to read it.

It doesn't have a main plot that ties all the characters together, but rather focuses more on each character's backgrounds, thoughts and feelings. That doesn't mean that it isn't engaging and suspenseful, however. The story centres on a handful of characters that have been turned into zombies. The twist, however, is that their brains are totally unaffected. They're forced to watch as they kill and devour other humans. They're forced to feel what it's like to walk on broken glass in bare feet and get crippling injuries that do nothing to stop them. They can see, smell, taste and feel every second of it, but can do nothing to influence their bodies.

The events in this book are shocking and disturbing in the best possible way. Hugh Howey doesn't just rely on action, gore and suspense to entertain us (though there is plenty of that, don't worry), but he also finds other ways to get under our skin. There were times when the psychological horror made me recoil just as much as the graphic descriptions of the feedings, if not more so.

I just wish it had a solid main plot. It's great as it is, but I can't help but feel it could be even better if it was fleshed out more and had one big, central story with a beginning, middle and end. It did leave me wanting more, and not in a completely positive way. I would still recommend this book, however, especially to fans of the genre who are look for a fresh perspective.

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K. Odell

Oh, this is wonderful! This is amazing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2012

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I just happened upon this book whilst browsing and downloaded it on a whim. So glad I did - because I absolutely love this book.

I was just saying a couple of weeks ago that I'm sort of getting tired of this zombie thing. But this story isn't anything at all like the movies I've seen. As other reviewers have said, this story is told from the point of view of the zombies.

They're locked in: able to see, hear, feel, smell and taste everything they're doing, but with no power over their actions. They're just along for the ride as they shuffle and shamble and feed with relentless hunger on those lucky victims who DON'T manage to get away.

As they greedily feed, they have plenty of time to reflect on their condition, and on their lives before being bit. Their recollections are poignant and harrowing, full of regrets and desperate wishes to be able to go back and do it all over again. Their lives were meaningless and their lives were full of meaning that they failed to appreciate when they were living. Their lives are over and yet they will never end, no matter how much they might wish for it.

I've already bought other books by the same author - never heard of him before today, but now I can't wait to see what else he has written.

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Zombie horror...like you've never experienced before

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2016

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Reading Hugh Howie is a roadblock to the start-out novelist. This man has ideas that put the imaginative to shame. This story is first and foremost a zombie horror...but my god...it's so much more. The pain, angst, horror, sadness that the reader goes though...the freshness that he adds to what has become a tired and worn genre. The idea that a creature that we have never had any empathy for, suddenly becomes something more painful and human. And underlying it all is a tale that parodies ourselves, of war, terrorism and humanity. Amazing stuff! But NOT for the faint hearted or squeamish!

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Sean

Entertaining perspective and a 'nice' change

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2012

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This is a lot more gutsy (in many ways) than most of the other books that I have read by this author and feels a lot more mature in style. That said, as I have come to expect from this source it is imaginative and provides quite a few unexpected thought-experiments and unusual perspectives. Few of us have speculated on zombie poo (yes unfortunately I have, but from a purely scientific work-based perspective :) - and it adds depth to an extremely well paced short novel. I like the parallel threads (slightly reminiscent of 'The Stand' and 'The Passage') particularly the shifting environments between a number of 'classic' zombie set locations and I was very 'happy' with the ending. A recommended read for any zom-lit fans.

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