www.zombiebookblog.com was kind enough to post a review for Walter Knight's ZOMBIE MISSOURI...
Here's a short summary of the book followed by the review:
ZOMBIE MISSOURI
Walter Knight
SciFi Humor
Teenage loser
Lenny Dreckle of Johnson City, Missouri, is finally a winner – in the zombie
lotto. About to be shot by robbers at the Taco Bell after hours, Lenny’s saved
by a bright light that scares the robbers away. Unfortunately, the world as
Lenny knows it is fast coming to an end. An unknown disaster kills ninety
percent of the human population, turning them into flesh-eating zombies.
Teaming up
with other survivors and armed with cans of cat food to distract the zombies,
Lenny embarks on a bizarre odyssey to find the cause of the zombie apocalypse
and to take back the world one town at a time, starting with Johnson City. The
question is, can Lenny keep his hands off the lovely zombie Andrea and avoid
being devoured or infected by her? Loser that Lenny is, his fate hangs in the
balance.
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I’m not quite sure where to start with
Zombie, Missouri. To be
honest, I read the first few chapters of this book and put it down,
relatively sure I wasn’t going to finish it. I’d make my apologies to
the author who requested the review and be done with it. However, the
guy spent his time asking for the review and, as your ever faithful Head
Zombie, I always strive to do what I say I’m going to do… so I
soldiered on.
I love hilarious zombie tales.
Shaun of the Dead and
Zombieland
are in my top five favorite ZA movies of all time. I also love books
that go against the grain and blow up zombie lore as we know it –
writers get points from me for not following the rules which is exactly
why I’m not going to trash
Zombie, Missouri. It takes balls to
pull off something like this. Make no mistake, however – those of you
who are zombie purists will not enjoy this book AT ALL.
The main
character is a stoner teenager named Lenny Dreckle whose primary
objective, even in the ZA, is to lose his virginity. He teams up with a
woman named Kansas (who has no intention of giving him any play at all)
and together they must somehow fend off the zombies (and the aliens and
maybe even the Chinese – those bastards) with or without the help of a
weird, pill popping mad scientist sort named Oz. Dreckle may have a
chance of getting some from his girlfriend Andrea, if he can keep the
zombie hoochie from eating his brains.
The problem, in my opinion, with
Zombie, Missouri
is that it’s like getting on the tilt-a-whirl at the carnival right
after you’ve finished with your cherry milkshake, your cherry corndog
and your chicken cherry-yaki but before you’ve taken a good, stiff swig
of your cherry Pepto Bismol. It’s everywhere at once and you just don’t
know where to look as you’re getting tossed around and praying you don’t
have to revisit your carnie cherry goodness.
Not to completely
mislead you – this book is totally, freaking gut-bustingly funny in
parts. At times I think I may have laughed so hard I peed a little. The
characters do make you want to care for them and you do hope they make
it so at least you’ll get to see what wacky and unpredictable thing
they’ll do next. This book is like the ZA hopped up on meth or at least
five or six shots of Five Hour Energy.
Walter Knight gets an A for originality and cojones, but
Zombie, Missouri gets THREE out of FIVE ZOMBIE HEADS.
