Kim Paffenroth
I am a graduate of St John's College, Annapolis (1988), Harvard Divinity School (1990), and the University of Notre Dame (1995). I work at Iona College. I am married with two wonderful children. I am blessed to be able to write about the things that interest me and share my ideas with others.
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I am a graduate of St John's College, Annapolis (1988), Harvard Divinity School (1990), and the University of Notre Dame (1995). I work at Iona College. I am married with two wonderful children. I am blessed to be able to write about the things that interest me and share my ideas with others.
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I don't mean this nastily, but this book did not do it for me at all. All the pieces were in place: sole survivor who finds a stronghold in the zombie apocalypse, which is a library, yow, gross zombie-baby sequence, splatter, etc. But the theology did not hold for me, or felt confused, or something....
Kim Paffenroth's first zombie novel hearkens back to his excellent nonfiction work, Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth, and prefigures his ambitious Valley of the Dead: The Truth Behind Dante's Inferno, but in spite of the frequent Dante references in the descriptive...
I wanted to like this book, I really did. The idea of the book is fantastic, but I just couldn't get into it. I can't really explain why (sorry, SO not helpful), but I didn't warm to any of the characters and the writing style just, well, irritated me.I liked the supernatural link, but it just did...
A thoroughly enjoyable collection of zombie-related tales. As with most anthologies, some stories hit closer to the mark than others, but The World is Dead contains more than its fair share of sure-fire hits. I was asked to blurb this book but my recommendation is sincere. A superb collection from K...
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