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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7497394" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>I started a book I picked up at a library book sale for fifty cents because it was supposed to be a new take on zombies. It's called <em>The Silent Army</em> by James Knapp and it's got several things going against it. First of all, despite being a standalone novel, it seems like it's a continuation of his first book (which I haven't read). But more importantly, it's written from the points of view of three or four rotating characters, and each is written in the first person narrative. Each section starts with the person's name as a header so you know whose turn it is, but if you pick it up in the middle of a section (if you didn't make it to the end of a section the last time you put it down), it gets very confusing and I find myself frequently backtracking to see who "I" is now.</p><p></p><p>I'm over halfway done so I'm going to plow through it just to find out what happens with the main plot (somebody's stolen a dozen handheld, brick-sized nukes and is threatening to destroy a city and send in a bunch of "revivors" - the zombielike animated bodies of people who have given over control of their consciousnesses to a corporation/government for a set amount of time in order to climb the social status ladder once their time is up - to take out any opposition afterwards).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I'm underwhelmed.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7497394, member: 508"] I started a book I picked up at a library book sale for fifty cents because it was supposed to be a new take on zombies. It's called [i]The Silent Army[/i] by James Knapp and it's got several things going against it. First of all, despite being a standalone novel, it seems like it's a continuation of his first book (which I haven't read). But more importantly, it's written from the points of view of three or four rotating characters, and each is written in the first person narrative. Each section starts with the person's name as a header so you know whose turn it is, but if you pick it up in the middle of a section (if you didn't make it to the end of a section the last time you put it down), it gets very confusing and I find myself frequently backtracking to see who "I" is now. I'm over halfway done so I'm going to plow through it just to find out what happens with the main plot (somebody's stolen a dozen handheld, brick-sized nukes and is threatening to destroy a city and send in a bunch of "revivors" - the zombielike animated bodies of people who have given over control of their consciousnesses to a corporation/government for a set amount of time in order to climb the social status ladder once their time is up - to take out any opposition afterwards). Anyway, I'm underwhelmed. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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