This is one of only two books that I've ever finished and immediately flipped back to page one. 
 The premise is by now pretty famous: years after the zombie war, a researcher travels the world to assemble the stories of different survivors. The book is thus a collection of vignettes, usually somewhere between six to twelve pages. 
 If I'm going to review a famous book, I need to say something useful. After all, this one has been pretty well-established in current pop culture. Here are some concise, salient points. 
 *WWZ works for me because of the emotions inside. Every story has a different mood, from the bleak desolation of the starving family in Canada to the panicked cynicism of the professional bodyguard, wonderfully voiced by Henry Rollins in the audio book. This is a zombie book that makes you feel more emotions than just, "Damn, I liked that guy who got eaten." 
 *I am glad this book was published just for all the fervent Internet flame wars I've read about the Battle of Yonkers. I plan to sneak some upcoming meta-commentary on it into an upcoming book. 
 *Sharp readers will totally be able to identify the President and Vice-President. They are really people, trust me. 
 *As an Iron Maiden fan, this has the greatest reference to the band in the history of literature. 
 If you read just one zombie book in your life and choose this one, I'm sad, because I'm working on an upcoming zombie book. Thanks a lot. Still, I'll at least understand.