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Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel

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Author: David Wellington
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

33 reviews
Sales Rank: 47466

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

ISBN: 1560258667
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781560258667
ASIN: 1560258667

Publication Date: September 27, 2006
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In the heart of America, in the world's most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening — and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles. In California, he discovers a woman trapped in a hospital overrun with violent madmen. She may hold the secret to the Epidemic but she has lost everything — even her name. David Wellington's first novel, Monster Island, explored a world overcome by horror and the few people strong enough to survive. Now he takes us back in time to where it all began — to the day the dead began to rise.

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4 out of 5 stars

Free SF Reader June 27, 2008
Blue Tyson
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

A pretty reasonable zombie book.

Sort of somewhere in the middle of Dawn of the Dead (random people trapped by zombie horde) to World War Z (highly organised and led people trapped by zombie horde.)

This book has a few characters, a US National Guard captain, a government suit, and a girl who gets zombified but is still rational, unlike the others.

There is a strange supernatural rationale for all this, and is what the various people involved are working towards, with, of course, lots of slaughter of zombies and people in the process.

Apparently a prequel type story for an earlier book which I have not seen, but given this, likely to be quite readable, too.

3.5 out of 5

3 out of 5 stars

A let down May 4, 2008
Eric Higginbotham (Cloverdale, CA USA)
I am a fan of "13 Bullets" and "99 Coffins" from Wellington. Also really enjoyed "Monster Island". Having said that, this one was a let down. The idea of the book is to take us back to when the Zombie epidemic began. While it had its moments, this book didn't build up. It really slowed down. Zombies with the ability to make themselves invisible? If you read "Monster Island" you might remember the reference to the girl in CA who hooked herself up to an oxygen bar just before dying. Her name is Nilla and we follow her throughout this tale. The ending, I would describe, as a cop-out. I give this 3 stars which means it was ok but don't waste your money. If you really want to read it, snag it from the library. Not sure that I will continue on to "Monster Planet" after this.

1 out of 5 stars

Wouldn't recommend May 3, 2008
David (Lancashire)
I have now read all three books in this trilogy by David Wellington. The story is ok and I would have given it a three if it stood alone as a zombie novel, however after reading the final book in the trilogy I was so disappointed in the ending I felt as though I had wasted my time in reading any of them. Therefore I decided to give this book only one star because ultimately I felt really deflated and disappointed.

1 out of 5 stars

Terrible! November 2, 2007
Rathko (Los Angeles)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

After sitting up all night to finish the incredible "World War Z" I felt the need to continue my undead high and "Zombie Nation" was all that I could find in my local library. I knew a little of its background - that it had started out as a self published online novel - and I'm used to the kind of enjoyabley schlocky pulp fiction that dominates much of the horror genre, but this book is just plain bad. I've taught High School English and I'd be really disappointed if my students had produced work with such a terrible understanding of grammar, syntax, or language. On several occasions Wellington mixes pronouns, introducing `she said' into a conversation between to men, forcing the reader to go back and re-read the page before realizing that it is not his mistake, but the writer's. Some of these errors are annoying, some frustrating, some downright hilarious. My favorite is a description he gives of a dancer in a strip club, telling us that she has a star tattooed on `either' nipple. Now one may have a tattoo on the left breast, the right breast, both, or neither, but one cannot have a tattoo on `either'! Whatsmore, since when did strippers, or anybody else for that matter, tattoo their nipples? Did the author mean that she had a tattoo of a star surrounding each nipple? If so, then say it! A very amateurish book that deserves to made available for free online, and not charged for in bookstores.

5 out of 5 stars

JUst as good if not better than Monster Island! September 28, 2007
P. Myers (Alberta)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This second book in the trilogy takes us back to when the dead began to rise, truly great story telling and truly horrifying!!! Bring on Monster Planet!!

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