Not good, y'all. Really, really not good.
All the dialogue and characters seem as though they were written by a teenage boy, I constantly found myself laughing or rolling my eyes at things that were being said by the speakers and was never really able to get into the story because of how melodramatic it all was.
The voice actors were great but they weren't given great material to work with.

For some reason, the creators of this audiobook thought it necessary to skip parts of the book; sometimes whole sections, sometimes just paragraphs, seemingly indiscriminately. What it actually included was great, and I really liked the different readers, but I wanted to listen to the whole book, not just a sample.

Before listening to this audiobook, I couldn’t have cared less about zombies. They have never interested me nor held any appeal whatever. But this audiobook changed all of that. It was consistently interesting and very well researched. It did not obsess with the gore and horror associated with zombies, but presented the overall picture of a massive global conflict and how people responded differently in different regions. The narration is, with a few exceptions, extremely good. It is performed by an ensemble cast, which is a very effective approach for the content because the entire book is divided into accounts told from different persectives. Max Brooks, the author, narrates the voice of the government agent who is interviewing various people, and his performance is easily the worst. But the others are excellent and the listener will recognize many voices from their roles in film. I strongly recommend this audiobook to anyone interested in zombies, apocolypses, or just good stories.

An interesting book written from many different perspectives. This provides the reader with a wide spectrum of reaction and emotions on the zombie event and walks the reader through how different societies around the world deal with the crisis.

Max Brooks writes and weaves a complex narrative and leaves the reader (listener in this specific instance) to pick up the pieces of the unsaid, and the undead. Listening to this well written book is an absolute treat due to its full cast of readers, such as Simon Pegg, Alan Alda, Rob Reiner, Common and many more.

This is absolutely worth the investment. I enjoyed the recording very much.

My only gripe at all is that the second half is much stronger than the first half (in my personal opinion...)

I loved listening to this audiobook, the cast really make the story work well. Some of the great voices are instantly recognizable, Alan Alda in a war story what isn't to love?

While I enjoyed reading the book some years ago, I relished the audio version with its star-studded cast. Having a different voice for each character added a whole other delightful element to the story.

This audio was completely awesome. Everybody had a different narrator and some really well known actors lend their voices which was great but despite loving the documentary style of the book and the high quality audio... I still just want to give this 3 stars.

This fascinating novel reads more like a collection of loosely-related short stories. Most of the stories are interesting and quite a few are very cleverly written. On the surface, these are realistic, visceral stories about zombies. But reading between the lines, you'll discover some excellent insights about human nature and how the world as a whole chooses to deal with global crisis situations.

Finally a zombie story that isn’t shit! WWZ is a document of the first person accounts by survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Zombies take a backseat in this story and Brooks instead focuses on characterization and political satire.

Brooks didn’t skip on his homework. He researched technology, politics, economics, culture, and military tactics which is more than Congress can say. I absolutely loved this book if you haven’t noticed yet. The author has almost redefined what a zombie book is. The format is unconventional, it is character as opposed to plot driven, and has the drama of a Matthew Weiner script. The book has recently been adapted into a blockbuster hit (or Redbox for that matter…ha!) Okay I digress. What the movie doesn’t have is the political satire. What the book doesn’t have is Brad Pitt. Both mediums have their advantages and stand on their own feet but what is remarkable about the book is the fact that you easily forget you are reading a FICTION book. The first person narratives of the well rounded characters are that badass. Hands down, the best zombie book on the market at the moment.