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Post by wesley on Feb 1, 2013 13:01:06 GMT -5
I'm hardly an expert on zombie novels - but what I've seen always involves someone of the middle class and their survival attempts.
Years ago in Texas I made a delivery to a Texas billionaire that was easily a member of the "2%". I was remembering his house when I was thinking how I would want to ride out a zombie apocalypse. His walls - brick - were easily 12 foot tall. The gates were metal and secure enough to withstand being rammed by a car. And the armed guards inside were said to be ex-secret service. They were NOT your typical soldier of fortune types. All this because there had been threats of kidnapping that had been busted up by the FBI.
The house must have had about ten bedrooms and my guess is that there was more than one way to keep out intruders. I suspect they had their own power source too.
All in all - if I had to ride it out - that the type of place I'd like to be{ not that they would let me in }. So I'm surprised that we don't see more locations like that in zombie fiction. So if the apocalypse were to ever happen - I keep thinking that a large percentage of the survivors will be in Beverly Hills.
Any books or movies out there that take this into account?
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Post by matov on Feb 1, 2013 16:26:19 GMT -5
Not an expert myself on the Zombie genre but one of the bits I enjoyed the most in 'World War Z' was the account given by a security guard/mercenary who had been hired to guard some up-market hide out that the great and the good of the celebrity world had attempted to hole up in. Worth reading.
Personally I tend to go the other way. Here in London I would probably look to hole in one of the numerous industrial estates that we have usually situated along rail-way lines. They are invariably very well fenced in as are the rail lines themselves and think that they would offer the best places to set up in and to be able to establish some lines of communications. I can see why up-market properties might seem attractive but ultimately you are isolating yourself.
But your observation of the Zombie literature field being a middle class, on the whole, genre is a good one and impacts on most other parts of the post-apoc genre. One of the things I love about the current 'Walking Dead' TV adaptation is that it seems to have a broad socio-economic cast of characters and it works without seeming to be the sort of box-ticking exercise we get in the UK.
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Post by thehorror on Jun 29, 2016 12:01:28 GMT -5
Interesting ideas. I totally agree that a large house such as this would be ideal to wait out the apoc. But only as long as you really do have enough supplies. Otherwise, as Matov says, somewhere that has good communications would be preferable. As for the middle class thing, not sure I totally hold to this opinion. Many zombie / post-apoc books have less of a class differentiation. The charcaters could be upper, lower, or middle class, easily... Have you read, for example, "Once Bitten, Twice Die" by Antony J. Stanton? Possibly my favourite post-apoc book of all time. Kinda like a British version of The Walking Dead (Matov - I think you're gonna like this book if you like TWD) but with real bite... Classless, timeless and peerless...
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Post by thehorror on Jun 29, 2016 12:01:39 GMT -5
Interesting ideas. I totally agree that a large house such as this would be ideal to wait out the apoc. But only as long as you really do have enough supplies. Otherwise, as Matov says, somewhere that has good communications would be preferable. As for the middle class thing, not sure I totally hold to this opinion. Many zombie / post-apoc books have less of a class differentiation. The charcaters could be upper, lower, or middle class, easily... Have you read, for example, "Once Bitten, Twice Die" by Antony J. Stanton? Possibly my favourite post-apoc book of all time. Kinda like a British version of The Walking Dead (Matov - I think you're gonna like this book if you like TWD) but with real bite... Classless, timeless and peerless...
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