I just LOVE LOVE this book. 
 I love how the book isn't just one story but a series of stories tied into one plot: The rise and fall of the zombies. The fact that Max Brooks never actually tells us what the virus really is, is just wonderful. Too many books(and movies) get too caught up in the why and not enough about how it changes everything. 
 This is one of the few books that makes it seem like a zombie apocalypse could in fact be real. (view spoiler)[Instead of after the dead raised making the world that follow a vast wasteland where there are small groups of survivors just trying to make it through the day and that is it, he shows us that yes the dead did rise but the living banded together and for the most part the government stood. His use of keeping a government in place kept it just being a panic(where people was making a mad dash trying to find some place safe) and not falling into anarchy(in which there would never be any hope of truly winning the zombie war, just surviving minute to minute). Yet the thing that stood out the most to me is that in the end the human race drove back these terrors and was able to finally come together(well not every single person in the world together) and work towards a common goal. (hide spoiler)] 
 All in all I love this book so much that I usually end up reading it again every 2 maybe 3 months. Also anytime I take a road trip I listen the the full audio book on the drive there and back to the point I now have it timed out to the point that when as I am pulling in at home I am listening to the last sentence. 
 (view spoiler)["I thought it was a dream, sometimes it still feels like one, remembering that day, that sunrise over the Hero City." (hide spoiler)]