Olympic gold medalist for mental gymnastics . Holy shit you ' re retarded . <| sep |> He ' ll be amazing on a mono TEQ team , just saiyan . <| sep |> The book is a series of short stories , told in pasttense , by survivors of WWZ . Each chapter covers the UN documentarian interviewing a survivor . The chapters go in chronological order and give you glimpses into important events . As for the story , here are some major differencesIn the book , patient zero is in China but the studio didn ' t want to hurt their international box office numbers so they changed it to Best KoreaIn the book , the infestation occurs over the course of years and only succeeds because if human hubris and ineptitude In the book , the zombies are slow and literally undead . The movie has fast zombies that are actually infected and not true zombiesThe book covers the struggles of mankind . Starvation , loss of hope , fear , the slow breakdown of society . How different people all around the world are affected . The movie follows Brad Pitt , the one man that can save mankindThe book shows the Heroism of those who understood the zombies and had the courage and tenacity to stand their groundThe book is a rich tapestry of human experience and the movie shares almost nothing with itIn the movie , there ' s a cureinoculation . In the book , the only way to win is to fight . The problem with the book is that it doesn ' t make sense in the twitter Era . How can slow moving zombies take over the world when someone tweets aim for the head on day two ? The book is basically impossible to adapt into a movie though . There is no main character . Just a UN worker that is supposed to represent the readers themselves . I agree that it always made more sense as a series . But instead we got a generic zombie movie that shares the same name as the book