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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 818.602 EAN: 9781600610707 ISBN: 1600610706 Label: How Manufacturer: How Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: July 14, 2008 Publisher: How Studio: How Editorial Review: Product Description: Perfect for zombiephiles, video game addicts and horror movie fanatics, "Zombie Haiku" is the touching story of a zombie's gradual decay told through the intimate poetry of haiku.From infection to demise, readers will accompany the narrator on a zen journey through deserted streets and barracaded doors for every eye-popping, gut-wrenching, flesh-eating moment right up to the inevitable bullet to the brain.The book is illustrated with over 50 photos from the zombie's point of view and designed with extra blood, guts, gore and pus! Average Rating:
 Rating:  - More numbing than one might suspectI love the idea of combining the current zombie fixation with the precise imagery and structure of haiku. On the surface, this notion works just fine, and I can see why anyone scanning this volume would be enticed to grab a copy for friend or foe alike. But what works well for half a dozen or so haiku does not having the staying power throughout a volume of this stuff. After so many brain-, gore-, or blood-spattered images, the effect is more numbing than one might suspect. In the end, ... Read More Rating: - Shamble. Eat People / Zombies really have no goals/ gets boring real fastSince this is the third zombie book in a row that I didn't care for, and I don't recall one that I liked, I think I just dislike zombies. There really is no movement to a storie with a zombie protagonist (jokes about shambling aside). They don't care about much and only want to eat continually so the plot is *seek food, eat someone Repeat from *. You get increasing gore (hey look, my arm fell off). You get weird shock value (mom is tasty) but you get no real story. The execution ... Read More Rating: - A Must Own For Zombie FansI bought this book because a review of it in Rue Morgue magazine made it sound interesting and said it would be a hit for Romero fans. It sounded kind of fun, but it turned out to be so much better than what I was expecting. If you think the idea of a zombie who writes haiku sounds like a book you might enjoy, then you are in for a treat. I've read a lot of zombie books, and this one is by far the most fun. Don't get me wrong, it is probably the most violent piece of zombie fiction I've read thus far, but ... Read More Rating:  - Two problems with this collectionI like zombies and I like poetry, especially haiku, so I went into this with high hopes. Unfortunately, Zombie Haiku is neither good haiku nor is it good story-telling. Haiku is more than just words poured into the form of 3 lines of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. In fact, most serious writers of English-language haiku recognize that haiku in English should probably be shorter than that to more closely resemble the Japanese form. Even leaving that aside, there are many other formal constraints that ... Read More Rating:  - Must-Have for your Zombie CollectionIt never occurred to me to look for a zombie story in something other than novel form; this book was on display by a register when I purchasing some other books. I figured since The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (guide form, obviously) and Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel) (journal form) worked for me, I would give zombie haikus a chance. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the haikus formed an actual story, instead of just being random haikus. Another bonus ... Read More |
