• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    World War Z (the book) had to go to extreme lengths to dumb the world’s militaries down to make it’s zombie apocalypse seem plausible… everything from completely misrepresenting the way air-fuel munitions work to completely misunderstanding what assault rifles is all about.

    And the book’s silliness doesn’t stop there…

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      1 year ago

      Hah, and it was basically all for nothing. If he wrote the book past covid, he would know that he doesn’t has to dumb down anything

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      1 year ago

      The Japanese blind anime monk was the peak for me. The book had some good parts but man, what the hell was some of that shit

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        1 year ago

        The author’s understanding of people in countries that isn’t the US seems to be based on tourism-brochure level tropes and not much else. And his depictions of South Africa and Israel betrays a lot of fascistic sympathies.