Friday, January 27, 2017
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in lovewith a humanin this astonishingly original debut novel. R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesnt enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.
Not just another zombie novel, Warm Bodies is funny, scary, and deeply moving.
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I AM DEAD, but its not so bad. Ive learned to live with it. Im sorry I cant properly introduce myself, but I dont have a name anymore. Hardly any of us do. We lose them like car keys, forget them like anniversaries. Mine might have started with an R, but thats all I have now. Its funny because back when I was alive, I was always forgetting other peoples names. My friend M says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you cant smile, because your lips have rotted off. None of us are particularly attractive, but death has been kinder to me than some. Im still in the early stages of decay. Just the gray skin, the unpleasant smell, the dark circles under my eyes. I could almost pass for a Living man in need of a vacation. Before I became a zombie I must have been a businessman, a banker or broker or some young temp learning the ropes, because Im wearing fairly nice clothes. Black slacks, gray shirt, red tie. M makes fun of me sometimes. He points at my tie and tries to laugh, a choked, gurgling rumble deep in his gut. His clothes are holey jeans and a plain white T-shirt. The shirt is looking pretty macabre by now. He should have picked a darker color.We like to joke and speculate about our clothes, since these final fashion choices are the only indication of who we were before we became no one. Some are less obvious than mine: shorts and a sweater, skirt and a blouse. So we make random guesses.
You were a waitress. You were a student. Ring any bells?
It never does.
No one I know has any specific memories. Just a vague, vestigial knowledge of a world long gone. Faint impressions of past lives that linger like phantom limbs. We recognize civilizationbuildings, cars, a general overviewbut we have no personal role in it. No history. We are just here. We do what we do, time passes, and no one asks questions. But like Ive said, its not so bad. We may appear mindless, but we arent. The rusty cogs of cogency still spin, just geared down and down till the outer motion is barely visible. We grunt and groan, we shrug and nod, and sometimes a few words slip out. Its not that different from before.
But it does make me sad that weve forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone elses, because Id like to love them, but I dont know who they are.
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