City of the Dead: Brian Keene

DakotaYoda

Just finished City of the Dead by Brian Keene.

Anyone else read this? Just curious.... different take on zombies and I'm not much of a religious/bible-type but the approach was pretty niffty.

muff03

any good?

DakotaYoda

I would give it a 3 out of 5 I guess.

There is so much more territory they could have gotten into but the author didn't. It was a good read tho.

And the zombies aren't zombies per se. They are reanimated by spirits from another plane of existence that existed thousands of years go... they are intelligent, can use tools, guns, etc and can communicate.

greyan

DakotaYoda wrote: »

Just finished City of the Dead by Brian Keene.

Anyone else read this? Just curious.... different take on zombies and I'm not much of a religious/bible-type but the approach was pretty niffty.

can you suggest me, more good options fore this. this is boring.........

DakotaYoda

greyan wrote: »

can you suggest me, more good options fore this. this is boring.........

Do ye mean yer lookin for other Zombie related books? If so there are a few threads in this forum if ye look around.

I just picked up City of the Dead last week and read it. Day by Day Armageddon is what I'm reading now and I already like quite a lot more than City of the Dead.

Handling the Undead is up bext after Day by Day is done...

Kess73

DakotaYoda wrote: »

Just finished City of the Dead by Brian Keene.

Anyone else read this? Just curious.... different take on zombies and I'm not much of a religious/bible-type but the approach was pretty niffty.

This might be a stupid question but did you read The Rising before reading City Of The Dead?

I ask because a friend of mine read COTD, but did not realise that it was a sequal to the Rising.


As for the book, I am a big fan of Brian Keene's books. So I enjoyed COTD, but my favourite zombie related book of his has to be Dead Sea. His writing style had come on in leaps and bounds by the time he released Dead Sea, and his sense of pacing is much better in it than in The Rising or COTD.

DakotaYoda

Kess73 wrote: »

This might be a stupid question but did you read The Rising before reading City Of The Dead?

I ask because a friend of mine read COTD, but did not realise that it was a sequal to the Rising.


As for the book, I am a big fan of Brian Keene's books. So I enjoyed COTD, but my favourite zombie related book of his has to be Dead Sea. His writing style had come on in leaps and bounds by the time he released Dead Sea, and his sense of pacing is much better in it than in The Rising or COTD.

*Face palm* uh.... no. I've not read The Rising. I had no idea... I had heard nothing but good things about Keene and COTD was what I was recommend to start with. Heh. I'll check out The Rising next.


Day by Day Armageddon was pretty decent. Good quick read. I plan to check out the sequel.

Kess73

DakotaYoda wrote: »

*Face palm* uh.... no. I've not read The Rising. I had no idea... I had heard nothing but good things about Keene and COTD was what I was recommend to start with. Heh. I'll check out The Rising next.


Day by Day Armageddon was pretty decent. Good quick read. I plan to check out the sequel.

The second part of Day By Day Armageddon is better than the first, imho, so you are in for a treat.




As for The Rising, It pretty much sets the scene for COTD, and is worth a read even though you now know how it will end.

You should defo check out Dead Sea as well though. I think you will like it.


The Autumn series by David Moody is another set of zombie books that I loved, and the Morningstar books are excellent (Plague Of The Dead is part one, and Thunder And Ashes is part two). The third in the series will be out this year with a bit of luck. The writer of the first two, Z.A. Rechts, died before he finished the trilogy, but other writers have stepped in to finish the book for him.

And it would not be like me to recommend zombie books with mentioning one from a guy who has posted on this forum. Check out The Estuary by Derek Gunn. It is a zombie story which is set in Ireland.

DakotaYoda

Cool Kess - thx a bunch for the info.

I'm sitting at work at my desk and have DBDA:Beyond Exile,Thunder and Ashes, and Plague of the Dead on my desk compliments of a co-worker.

I'll track down Dead Sea and The Rising as well.