Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

[Zeta Kai]

Has anyone else read this book? Does anyone else understand just how awesome this book is? Discuss!

[Tiger Duck]

I assume you don't mean Pride & Prejudice? because that one I read.
And now I'm wondering what that story can become by adding Zombies.
thanks

[hanzo66]

Yes, it's an actual book. Seen it a few times in my local Borders.

[pita]

That looks like the best book ever.
I'm gonna get it if I see it.

[SurlySeraph]

I own it, but unfortunately have not yet had time to start reading it.

[Flickerdart]

I started reading it and got deathly bored. The parts written by the new guy are rather over-the-top and trying too hard to sound like Jane Austen and be interesting at the same time. The original parts have no such problem: they're completely Jane Austen, and not interesting at all.

[Tamburlaine]

Read it, liked it, looking forward to the next one. I wasn't quite sure about the welding job between the new text and the old, but then I've never read the original book, so...

[shadow_archmagi]

I started reading it and got deathly bored. The parts written by the new guy are rather over-the-top and trying too hard to sound like Jane Austen and be interesting at the same time. The original parts have no such problem: they're completely Jane Austen, and not interesting at all.

I was afraid of this so I didn't buy it.

[bosssmiley]

Read the free online preview of the first chapter. A lapidary masterpiece of English literature soiled by a hack who couldn't write his own story. It was like watching a child with crayons try to colour in some Gustav Dore.

Further proof, if any was needed, that geeks have no critical faculties if you offer them something with one of their preferred shiny things attached.

"Huuuuuur ZOMBIES! Huuuuuuur..." - a geek, yesterday

@v: True, JA's a proper Marmite author (you either love her, or hate her). Some of us happen to like Marmite though, and only have to take one bite to conclude that the existing recipe doesn't need added rotting flesh.

[Innis Cabal]

Read the free online preview of the first chapter. A lapidary masterpiece of English literature soiled by a hack who couldn't write his own story. It was like watching a child with crayons try to colour in some Gustav Dore.

Then again, this is all subject to opinion, where as I know at least a passing few find Miss Austin's book to be a witless, droll, and bland writer who could no sooner pen her way through a paper bag then create a single "lapidary masterpiece of English literature"

Then again, i'm bloody sick and tired of zombies, and not even the shambling undead could raise this borish, bloated and otherwise drab book out of its own self important fetid rot. Though, true to form, it did in fact eat my brain. Out of boredom. Which, again, is just what I thought of it. I don't like zombies, I find Miss Austin...well the above sums it up, so all in all...not surprised. But at least I got through it to form an opinion.

[Hzurr]

I read it, and enjoyed it, although I think this was more for the parts that were done by Jane Austin rather than the zombie parts that were added in.

I'd never read the original (although my fiancee has made me watch the movie a couple of times), but I've always felt that I should read it, simply because Jane Austin is an important part of being a well-read person, so this gave me a way to read it without having to surrender my man card.

If you've never read P&P, and are looking for an excuse to read it without looking like a total pansy, pickup P&P&Z. You can easily pick out what the original story was, and every so often you get to read about Elizabeth Bennet kicking someone in the face.

That being said, this guy's next book, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, is completely his own, so I feel like it will be a better measure of the quality of his writing


Side note: If you want a really good, well written zombie book; pick up World War Z. It's fantastic.

[SlyGuyMcFly]

I picked it up the other day, but haevn't got around to reading it yet. I've read the original and found it one of the funniest books I've ever read. We'll see how well this guy can emulate Miss Austen's style.

[Zeta Kai]

Well, it's a bit more than just Austin with some guy spot-welding zombies in the cracks. It's a completely overhauled narrative, & the flow from the mundane to the bizarre is simultaneously seemless & jarring. One moment, courtships & banquets are being discussed, then next moment is spent violently dispatching "the Unmentionables". All without missing a beat.

Also, it seeks to justify some of the unexplained plot devices in the original work. There is now much more reasoning behind why there is a militia at Meryton, why Mrs. Bennet is such a git, & why Charlotte Lucas would hook up with someone like Mr. Collins. I was impressed, & came away with the sense that Seth Graham-Smith actually studied & cared for the original quite a bit.

Also, from Quirk Press is the upcoming Sense & Sensibility & Sea-Monsters. No joke.

Lastly, WWZ is the magnus opus of undead literature. No other novel deals with the subject with just depth & reverence. It is the pinnicle of a very strange genre.

[Vaynor]

I just bought this but I haven't read it yet. It looks to be amazing, especially since we're reading the original for school this year. I'm going to save it until then so I don't mix the two up.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

I'm fairly certain most English majors (including myself) and Jane Austen fans (not including myself) find this apalling.

Besides, isn't that a kind of plagarism?

[kopout]

I'm fairly certain most English majors (including myself) and Jane Austen fans (not including myself) find this apalling.

Besides, isn't that a kind of plagarism?

Not really, for the same reason as wired all songs, it falls under parody.

Read the free online preview of the first chapter. A lapidary masterpiece of English literature soiled by a hack who couldn't write his own story. It was like watching a child with crayons try to colour in some Gustav Dore.

Further proof, if any was needed, that geeks have no critical faculties if you offer them something with one of their preferred shiny things attached.

"Huuuuuur ZOMBIES! Huuuuuuur..." - a geek, yesterday

But... I like shiny things.

[Athaniar]

Not really, for the same reason as wired all songs, it falls under parody.

I thought it was because it was in the public domain. Hmm, that gives me an idea...

*Goes off to turn Call of Cthulhu into a victorian love-story*

Or not.

[kopout]

I thought it was because it was in the public domain. Hmm, that gives me an idea...

*Goes off to turn Call of Cthulhu into a victorian love-story*

Or not.

Don't, I might be wrong.

[Strawman]

Is there any chance that the zombie parts are meant to show the dark parts of the Victorian Age that Austen always seems oblivious to? I haven't read the book, but that's what I would have done if I wrote it. Maybe something where the zombies represent the servants and the children and everyone else who does not have a voice in her works.

[Zevox]

I started reading it and got deathly bored. The parts written by the new guy are rather over-the-top and trying too hard to sound like Jane Austen and be interesting at the same time. The original parts have no such problem: they're completely Jane Austen, and not interesting at all.

Sounds like what I'd expect.

I'm fairly certain most English majors (including myself) and Jane Austen fans (not including myself) find this apalling.

I'm an English major, and I just find it weird. Can't fathom what would cause someone to want to write such a book. Not even the abject boredom and overwhelming desire to go do literally anything else that reading Jane Austen inspired in me.

Zevox

[Pandaren]

I started reading it and got deathly bored. The parts written by the new guy are rather over-the-top and trying too hard to sound like Jane Austen and be interesting at the same time. The original parts have no such problem: they're completely Jane Austen, and not interesting at all.

I completely agree.

I waited a month to get this form the library on hold.

Very, very disappointing.

[TheLogman]

I read part of it.

It was hilarious.

[DrakebloodIV]

I thought it was because it was in the public domain. Hmm, that gives me an idea...

*Goes off to turn Call of Cthulhu into a victorian love-story*

Or not.

Thats actually been done by the same people. Sense and sensibility and merpeople, I think...

[Zeta Kai]

Thats actually been done by the same people. Sense and sensibility and merpeople, I think...

...................

Also, from Quirk Press is the upcoming Sense & Sensibility & Sea-Monsters. No joke.

[Myrmex]

Is there any chance that the zombie parts are meant to show the dark parts of the Victorian Age that Austen always seems oblivious to? I haven't read the book, but that's what I would have done if I wrote it. Maybe something where the zombies represent the servants and the children and everyone else who does not have a voice in her works.

That sounds even more tedious than a Jane Austen novel.

[snoopy13a]

Besides, isn't that a kind of plagarism?

Not legally as Jane Austen's works are in the public domain.

There's nothing preventing you from writing Sense and Sensibility and Space Aliens (but please don't )

I like Jane Austen and I don't like zombies so I will not read the book. However, I do like Pride and Prejudice.

As for the questions posed: "Also, it seeks to justify some of the unexplained plot devices in the original work. There is now much more reasoning behind why there is a militia at Meryton, why Mrs. Bennet is such a git, & why Charlotte Lucas would hook up with someone like Mr. Collins. I was impressed, & came away with the sense that Seth Graham-Smith actually studied & cared for the original quite a bit."

Charlotte Lucas hooks up with Mr. Collins because she is in her late 20s and is scared of becoming an old maid. He also has good financial prospects being Mr. Bennet's heir*. There is a militia at Meryton because of the threat from Napoleon resulting in an increase of the British military (and they have to be stationed somewhere). Mrs. Bennet is a git because she is from a lower social class. Mr. Bennet (a landed gentleman) married her because he found her physically attractive. This causes her to be a fish out of water and results in her youngest daughters being similiar.

*Mr Bennet's property is entailed which means he cannot sell it. Nor can he legally leave it to his daughters or anyone else. With no son, the property will pass on to the nearest male relative who is Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins is a distant enough cousin so it would be acceptable for one of Mr. Bennet's daughters to marry him. That's why Mrs. Bennet is angry at Elizabeth for rejecting Collins.

[Galileo]

I enjoy the unmentionable attacks, but I fall asleep during nearly every non-zombie part. I don't even want to try it without zombie. Never gonna get through it in time to finish my essay on it.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

This is more along the lines of what I'd like to see...

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[Serpentine]

I really enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, but I don't like zombies. Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters could be fun, though...
I dunno, though... Does a parody of a parody really work, though? Cuz wasn't Austen lampooning her society?

[Zeta Kai]

This is more along the lines of what I'd like to see...

As humorous as that is, it is fundamentally inaccurate. Elizabeth represents the prejudice in the title, & so it should be Predator & Prejudice. Duh.