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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...
What are assault rifles all about?
I remember the author writing an entire paragraph's worth of screed because the stock of an M16 is not as solid as the stock of an AK - you know, for Hollywood-style zombie bashing - completely forgetting that the AK, like the M16, are rifles and that if you use them as rifles you won't have to worry about using them as clubs. He also forgot that clubs are easy - pickaxe-handles are much cheaper than M16s.
At least you got one serious answer.
They go bang-bang real fast
deez NUTS
One thing they got 100% right is the idiots. I remember being really annoyed about the chapter with people pretending to be zombies, intentionally getting bitten and spreading etc...
...and then COVID happened and proved that the real world had people at least as bad if not more.
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
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
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.