Welcome to Litsy!

First reaction after finishing this book was what the what? Second reaction was to peer out my window to see if the book‘s zombie apocalypse, which happens distressingly close to my neighborhood, had materialized. Good news, it hadn‘t! Third reaction was that I love Hemon‘s descriptions—they‘re so vivid & you can see, touch, smell it all. Love his writing. Also, the plotting but dude, the main character is an unlikable tool. Still, I enjoyed it.

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The things people think about as they are imagining the undead...

Love the main character‘s script ideas. Also love that both Lawrence of Arabia and Dawn of the Dead are referenced in the first 7 pages. Picking this one out of the TBR stacks was a good decision!

Going with more 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️ for my next read—it‘s the story of a man who has lots of screenplay ideas, one of which might be very good if only he can do something with it before his life spirals out of control. I very much liked the first Hemon book I read and I have high hopes for this one. It‘s #4 out of 50 in my effort to read 50 books from by TBR pile by the end of the year.

I really enjoyed this one. It won't be for everyone. It's kinda in the Seth Rogan, Robert Rodriguez, comedy wheelhouse. A scriptwriter who never really writes anything down, his landlord-criesoverhisunderwear-stalker-friend, his "she's perfect except that she sees the good in me" Asian girlfriend, a hot Bosnian student, a ptsd Bosnian war refugee, a crazy, everyone's one been cheated on or is doing the cheating family. There's a lot going on Lol

This book is pretty funny and over the top. This young man, Joshua, in the midst of his wandering years is about to have the craziest week of his life. He wants to be a writer but if you've ever taking a writing workshop or creative writing class, he's the guy whose ideas are all in his head. And as each situation happens to him, he comes up with a new script idea. Not all are winners, but all are funny in a ridiculous way.

The Making of Zombie Wars does feature a #BookWithinABook in the form of a script the main character is writing. The script is comically bad, which I think is the point as The Making of Zombie Wars is meant to be a comedy about a 20-something year old man who gets embroiled with a married Eastern European woman with supposedly darkly humorous results. The humour in this book was too crude for me to really enjoy it. #ReadJanuary

Probando Litsy, probando Litsy... Aquí va mi lectura de la semana: "Como se hizo La guerra de los zombis", de Aleksandar Hemon. Publicada en castellano por Libros del Asteroide ?

"The future of the world is in a bag of dog poop, because that's where the bacteria that can eat plastic will evolve".