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Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel) | 
 enlarge | Author: J. L. Bourne
Creators: Travis Adkins, Z. A. Recht
Publisher: Permuted Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  213 reviews
Sales Rank: 2022
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 228
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0978970772
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780978970772
ASIN: 0978970772
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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Product Description
START INTERCEPT_ Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. INTERCEPT COMPLETE_ Survivor, In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter if you will into his world. -The world of the undead.
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 Solid Zombie Fiction (that reads like Non-fiction) January 6, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bourne's interpretation of the Zombie Apocalypse is hair-raising and intelligent. Unlike so many other books in this vein, the writing is solid. I actually had a nightmare after reading this, which is a testament to its quality.
DBDA FTW! December 28, 2008
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DBDA is amazing! I am not one to write long winded reviews, but if you enjoy Zombie books, then this is one for you. Told in a Dear Diary format, JL Bourne captures the mind with this debut novel.
This book is now amongst my favorites.
Where is the sequel?! I need my fix for Hotel 23!
 A genuinely good read. Thought provoking. December 27, 2008
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Some people have trashed this book for it's pace, or the way that it's written. It's not Shakespeare but it is interesting. The time spent on specific preparations for the disaster should make you all reevaluate your own preparations for any crises. It's easy to pick up, but I found that I had to read it in one sitting I could not put it down. It's a disaster story more than a strict "Zombie Novel" and so there's not a ton of gore or zombie battles going on. The characters were a little formulaic I thought but they weren't unbelievable. As far as any "right leaning" concepts I didn't really see them. Take the book at face value and have a good time with it.
Happily surprised! December 27, 2008
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This was my first Zombie book & I loved it. I like post-apocalyptic type stories so I rushed to read Max Brooks' zombie books next, but was disappointed with them. "Day by Day Armageddon" would make a great movie. Hope a part 2 will be coming soon.
 Far from Dead but Far from alive December 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree that a good zombie novel is hard to come by, most are just mediocre at best. and outright awful at worst. Day by Day is somewhere in the middle on the scale of bad vs good. it's not bad, it's not good. it's just ok. most characters are flat (which is bad cause there's not a lot of characters to begin with. and the few here are very vague and uninteresting. some of the character's names i already forgotten. which is never a good sign. i do like the fact it's written as a quasi war journal. the narration is sometimes genuinely interesting. there's roughly 6 main characters (7 if you include the dog). one is a young naval officer (the character that has the main POV, it's his "journal"), one is a middle aged neighbor of his, one is a former advertising agent whom is a vague love interest to the prime protagonist, and a family of 3 a husband & wife and their little girl. nothing of any real importance happen to these characters accept them escaping to a missile silo and fighting off redneck marauders later in the book.
somebody else mention that this was "right wing propaganda" . i can kinda see the right leaning undertones to the book but it's not over bearing. there's is however A LOT of military jargon. it's as if that's the writer's bread and butter cause that's all he knows (the writer was and still is in the service). which is why the main character (and writer) are constantly finding themselves in a situation that gives the lead protagonist an excuse to use some type of military techno babble. World War Z had this too and i got tired of it then (and i think WWZ is a better novel.....by far). but WWZ get's a pass cause most of it was justified. in this case the writer just seemed to use it as a crutch almost.
the book has some very tense moments, but over all nothing really happens. it's mostly about the survivors scavenging. it's not a bad start but i hope the supposed sequel kick into high gear.
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