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    The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse
    The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse
    The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse
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    The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse

    Written by Steven C. Schlozman, M.D.

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot, Stephen Hoye and Emily Durante

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    On a remote island a crack medical team has been sent to explore a radical theory that could uncover a cure for the epidemic of walking dead. Based on the team's research and the observations of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, The Zombie Autopsies documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms.Detailed drawings of the internal organs of actual zombies provide an accurate anatomy of these horrifying creatures. Zombie brains, hearts, lungs, skin, and digestive system are shown, while Dr. Blum's notes reveal shocking insights into how they function-even as Blum and his colleagues themselves begin to succumb to the plague.No one knows the ultimate fate of Dr. Blum or his researchers. But now that his notebook, The Zombie Autopsies, has been made available to the UN, the World Health Organization, and the general public, his scientific discoveries may be the last hope for humans on earth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 17, 2012
    ISBN9781452676043
    The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse

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    • 5/5
      This book is incredible! So engaging, the narration/voice acting is just amazing. I only wish there were more of it, the ending is too open-ended!
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this one! I can be finicky when it comes to stories presented in this document/information fashion, but I really liked this one. I just grabbed it off the shelf at my library to read something while I waited for my mum, then I had to borrow it and now I'm going to buy myself a copy, it's definitely one I want to have in my collection.I'm interested to know if the author intends to write more of this "series", although it's not really a series. This book reads like a manifest, a documentation of this zombie virus, the stages the human body goes through, the process of infection, etc, I think it would be interesting if the author used this book as a jumping off point and then dove into the world he's created all these facts for. There is mention that the world has been decimated by nuclear attacks in an attempt to localize the infection, so the world is a mess. The people who survived live underground and are under Martial Law. It would be an interesting setting for a zombie novel, in my opinion.
    • 3/5
      Zombie Autopsies (Secret Notebooks From the Apocalypse) Steven C. Schlozman, M.D.Illustrated by Andrea SparacioHardcover 208 pages Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: March 25, 2011ISBN: 978-0446564663We've seen our share of zombie survival narratives, zombie war tales, zombie diaries , and even zombie romances, as well as various guides, manuals, and required weapons lists for combating the shambling-dead. Zombie Autopsies (Secret Notebooks From the Apocalypse), on the other hand, is a story that focuses on the clinical aspects of the coming zombie apocalypse. Drawn heavily on medical, scientific, and forensic jargon, exposition, and illustrations Zombie Autopsies relies too much on the quantifiable and too little on the speculative. By that I mean that this book fails to deliver a memorable piece of fiction beneath too much scientific research and medical rationalization.At the onset I thought the premise of zombie forensics intriguing. It was, for instance, the first time I’d seen this particular living-dead trope and thought, if handled correctly, could be a unique and entertaining story. Most of you already know that I truly do enjoy a good post-apocalyptic zombie yarn but I really had difficulty with Zombie Autopsies. Mixed in with the analytical descriptions, autopsy reports, medical illustrations, and scientific journals is an interesting fictional account of the walking-dead but the plot gets overwhelmed by too much scientific exposition. This story would have been significantly better had the percentages of technical explanation and plot-driven narrative been reversed. In all honesty, the zombie tale itself, when it does surface, is really a pretty good one and the illustrations are interesting and quite graphic but, in my opinion, the story should have guided the medical reporting rather than the other way around. Mr. Schlozman would have had a much better story had he done so. If you enjoy all the bloody, gory details of actual autopsies, like to view cross-sectioned diagrams of cancerous or diseased organs, or are curious about the anatomical changes that might occur during the process of zombification then this book is for you. Otherwise, I’d look for other, more narrative- and less clinical- driven zombie tales to read.2 ½ stars out of 5The AlternativeSoutheast Wisconsin
    • 3/5
      Written like the diary/notes of a scientist sent to a special lab to dissect zombie and find a cure. The diary part was interesting and entertaining but the rest that commented on the diary was kind of boring.
    • 3/5
      Not bad, but not the amazing revelation it purports to be. (Zombies still cannot be explained by medical science.) Longer review later.
    • 5/5
      [July 24, 2012] "The Zombie Autopsies" is not going to be everyone's "cup of tea." Readers should be warned that the description of the autopsy procedures - along with accompanying illustrations - is quite graphic. But I found the book very engaging. Because the zombie pandemic has destroyed much of civilization, scientists anxious to learn more about what causes "zombiism" accept a no-return assignment on a remote island to conduct these autopsies under, you might say, less than ideal conditions. As a scientist I appreciated the author's use of technical detail; this lent the book a certain realism. As a human being I could appreciate the ethical dilemmas society encounters in how to move forward with zombie research. While the appendices to the book comprise a large fraction of the story, I believe they add to the overall story.

      The book was not overlong, it was fun to read, and interesting. That's a pretty good formula if you ask me.
    • 2/5
      Okay, though does not raise the bar of the oevre, as it were.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this glimpse into zombie studies. Told in a diary format, where we know the writer succumbed to zombie-ism (or No Longer Human) status. It is very interesting to see the medical world's take on zombies.

      Why are they able to keep moving when by all accounts they should be dead? What happens to the brains of a zombie? What about all the flesh they eat, where does that go? (Come to think of it, I've never seen a zombie use the restroom!)

      What keeps this book from attaining a 4 or 5 star rating is in fact how short it is, and there really isn't much new information. I saw this book while at Barnes and Noble, but got it from my library instead. To this I am verrry grateful, I wouldn't have wanted to spend $15 on a book that only took a day to read.

      So, it is short, simple and fun, if you like xombie lit, I think you'd like this book. :)
    • 2/5
      I have a hard time envisioning this book as anything other than a gimmick, no matter how the actual construction and writing turned out. It appears that Schlozman wanted to write a book that both playfully constructed zombie physiology and also realistically imagined the zombie apocalypse based on factors that were scientific rather than supernatural. In that respect the book does reasonably well. It's obvious that some thought went into how zombies could function when not animated by purely supernatural means, but just when some profound originality could have emerged (and is fully expected to come to light by readers) Schlozman sort of cops out on us. The bulk of the book follows the hand-written journal of a man sent to a remote island with a set of other military officials and scientists so that the contagion responsible for zombiism can be more fully understand (and a vaccine could then be manufactured). A so-so job is done on character development -- I was not entirely apathetic about the characters but due to the format of the book (brief journal style entries for half of it that were mainly descriptions of the titular zombie autopsies) it was very hard to form any sort of real attachment to anyone and so character deaths were met mostly with frustration rather than alarm. This is just as well, as the strength of the book should have been in its ability to make the reader believe the sort of zombiism the author was selling. However, though a significant amount of page space is taken up detailing the anatomy and physiology of the zombie specimens and considering how they could continue to function following so much damage to their bodies, for example, we are never given a true answer. The overall impression is that the idea was just not fully thought through and Schlozman couldn't do very much more other than leave it open-ended, following some scattered attempts at hinting at a more interesting and surprising conclusion. The other half of the book consists of fabricated reports about treaties written in response to the zombie plague, some ponderings on the nature of humanity, transcripts of correspondences, etc. While the entire book is wrapped up in the concept of an informational packet distributed in an attempt to encourage people to put more effort into unraveling the information obtained by the main characters during their time doing research on the island, the majority of this material falls very flat and is entirely uninteresting. I think the space could have been much better spent on elaborating more fully on the actual storyline introduced in the protagonist's journal entries. It's overall an adequate but at times very boring attempt at introducing some originality to very formulaic zombie novels currently being published. Though the format is not the same, there is still nothing dramatically thought-provoking or memorable about this book. I would recommend it to those that are zombie-obsessed and simply have to read everything published on the subject or someone looking for a mildly scary light afternoon read, as the book is extremely short due to formatting.
    • 3/5
      As a big fan of "War Day" and "World War Z," I was primed to fall in love with this journal of the zombie apocalypse (with drawings!), but the over-focus on sleuthing out the medical cause behind the zombie plague, while a good set-up for a story, got in the way of building suspense. Three quarters of the way through, I began to skim just to see if the plot would move in an unexpected (and scary) direction, but the "action" in the book remains a detailed analysis of the disease by an increasingly ill scientist. The drawings reminded me of a less able version of the sketches by Stephen Gammell from the "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" series. Though gruesome, they actually ended up taking away from the horror of the story because nothing about the infected humans or the dissection room was left to the imagination. I've got a soft spot for most zombie books, and I love an author who takes the time to build an authentic-feeling set-up, but this book didn't send shivers up my spine.
    • 4/5
      Thank you to the Zombie Research Society for recommending The Zombie Autopsies by Steven Schlozman, M.D., as the March-April Book Club selection. What a fun and unique book. It seems as though lately we have been bombarded with zombies, AMC’s The Walking Dead, Jonathan Maberry’s Patient Zero and Dead of Night, and Max Brooks’ World War Z which is currently in film production with Brad Pitt. Believe me, I am not complaining, but we have definitely seen it done before. While most horror authors incorporate their own spin on the zombie apocalypse in the end the stories are undoubtedly the same; due to some virus/pathogen/nuclear accident the dead reanimate and walk the earth devouring everyone in site in order to satiate their never ending hunger. Most of the time the zombie apocalypse is started in a lab, perhaps by some mad scientist or money hungry bureaucrat hoping to cash in on the mayhem, only to be eaten or turned zombie in the end. What Dr. Schlozman brings us is not a new take on the zombie narrative, but rather a new perspective on the story itself. He does not detail the rampage of the zombie hordes, or the decline of humanity (which is not to be confused with the question of what makes us human which is a recurring theme throughout), but rather forces readers to focus on the medical condition of zombie-ism through a series of firsthand accounts of zombie autopsies, including some wonderfully graphic sketches, as doctors attempt to find the cause of the disease and subsequently a cure. The story is written in first person, by Dr. Stanley Blum, and is a detailed account of the team’s research, observations, and eventual decline as they themselves begin to succumb to the disease. The addition of the seven appendixes after the ‘hand written’ journal, not to mention the official notations scattered throughout, give the story a very realistic feel as readers are thrown into the race to save humanity. A great read, and highly recommended for zombie enthusiasts.
    • 2/5
      The Zombie Autopsies is an unusual take on the zombie novel genre. It primarily takes the form of the hand-written notebook found with the body of a scientist at a facility where research on a pandemic of disease-induced zombiism is under study. The text can be repetetive when the narrative moves from scientific observation or research to the character's efforts to emotionally cope with the situation, but the scientific parts are somewhat interesting, provided the reader has an interest in reading a book which primarily seems devoted to theorizing how a zombie pandemic might actually occur. On the plus side, the theory of infection presented was something I hadn't read before... on the minus side, it was neither complete in its explanation nor particularly appealing as regards my "zombie apocalypse" preferences. I do give credit to the author for trying, but given that the story was almost entirely lacking in drama or action, an incomplete explanation of the biology of infection is a severe shortfall. In addition, the latter portion of the book is largely comprised of appendices of questionable interest... a glossary of terms, a brief history of the outbreak in sparse detail, a U.N. resolution regarding the outbreak, a few more pages of personal reflections of primary characters, and a flowchart of the "Gutierrez Protocol" for slowing the progression of infection. Mostly fluff. It's a shame, because it would seem that the author is knowledgable in the field of medicine, and I'd love to see more theories from medical professionals as to how a zombie apocalypse could actually take place, but this one I'd have to say is a letdown. To the author, keep trying, and better luck next time.