I came upon this book as part of the IO9.com book club. I'm a big fan of zombie apocolypse books and this book . . . well lets say this is the most horrifying version I've ever read.
The IO9 book club suggests a book and they give you a date on which to discuss the book. This was their January 2014 offer.
I read the book, and was thoroughly disgusted. I'm not one to put down a book once started so I finished it. That's not to say the writing was bad, I just had a hard time getting through the book because of how gross it was. Or how depressing it got when one thought about if it were to happen in real life.
I was completely involved with the book!
In the IO9 discussions, there was commenter that finally made realize how much the book must have impacted me. MrSImonM223 suggests that in most books zombies aren't really that scary. That they're a joke monster. That the real monsters in the stories are really other people.
But in The n-Body Problem, the zombies really are the monster. That's not to say that other people are not monsters, because oh. my. GOD! there are some HORRIBLE monsters in this book! But what the zombies are the realization of what will happen to you when you die . . . oh man.
As I said in the discussion, I put this book down HATING it! I really hated that I read it. But when MrSImonM223 put his arguments down about the book, I had to rethink everything.
I thought what had bothered me (and A LOT of others that read it) was the "squick" factor. It was gross. Detailed and gross. Did I mention gross? But when I really thought about it, I think it was that I was kinda empathizing with the "protagonist".
It made me wonder, how much would I put up with to prolong being human? What is "being human" anyway?
As I said in the discussion, I put down the book hating it.
After some time away from the book, I must say that I have to recommend it.
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