Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is that great idea you wish you'd had. At every page turn and every new description of ultraviolent gore, you marvel at Seth Grahame-Smith's editor's genius and wonder how he got to be so darn smart. Elizabeth Bennett is transformed from a self-confident young gentlewoman with a taste for the absurd to a self-confident young martial artist with a taste for the absurd and for human hearts. (That was zeugma, did you notice?) Charlotte Lucas Collins becomes one of the sadly stricken, Darcy a zombie-slayer, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh a vengeful old hag with superior Katana powers. Everything else is basically the same. I guess Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is coming out soon, but you can't forget your first bite!
13 August 2009
Okay, so I finally read it.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is that great idea you wish you'd had. At every page turn and every new description of ultraviolent gore, you marvel at Seth Grahame-Smith's editor's genius and wonder how he got to be so darn smart. Elizabeth Bennett is transformed from a self-confident young gentlewoman with a taste for the absurd to a self-confident young martial artist with a taste for the absurd and for human hearts. (That was zeugma, did you notice?) Charlotte Lucas Collins becomes one of the sadly stricken, Darcy a zombie-slayer, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh a vengeful old hag with superior Katana powers. Everything else is basically the same. I guess Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is coming out soon, but you can't forget your first bite!
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