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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

By Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

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| eBook | 9781594744495

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Ah, the benefits to a good book of a classic first line. 'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Who can forget Iain Banks' 'It was the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words by Ja ... (read full critics)

thebookbag published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a brand as successful and limited as the Jane Austen industry must be in want of diversification. (It is a further truth that anyone writing about Austen must begin with a variant of that sentence.) Even th ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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"Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance. Why, I imagine even zombies could do it with some degree of success."
I couldn't believe it, but Jane Austen's wit comes out sharper in this Nineteenth C ... (continue)

"Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance. Why, I imagine even zombies could do it with some degree of success."
I couldn't believe it, but Jane Austen's wit comes out sharper in this Nineteenth Century's England, haunted by the unmentionables

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Georgiana1792 said on Jun 4, 2010 | 1 feedback

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I don't like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice much. Maybe it's because the English is too ancient and difficult to read. But Pride and Prejudice And Zombies, an ingenious plot concocted by Seth Grahame-Smith, is hilarious.
85% made up of Jane Austen's original novel and 15% additional mater ... (continue)

I don't like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice much. Maybe it's because the English is too ancient and difficult to read. But Pride and Prejudice And Zombies, an ingenious plot concocted by Seth Grahame-Smith, is hilarious.
85% made up of Jane Austen's original novel and 15% additional materials on zombies wreaking havoc on the quiet English village of Meryton, the formula works.
Sheer entertainment and fun. No wonder the book has been optioned for a movie. Keeping my fingers crossed.

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Tracy W said on Sep 30, 2009 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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Did the joke wear thin?

This sounded like such a weird mix and I was curious about how quickly the joke would wear thin. It worked surprisingly well and a lot more coherently than I thought it would. There are some fun illustrations too.
It made me want to watch the brilliant BBC adaptation from the 1990s again. But I'm al ... (continue)

This sounded like such a weird mix and I was curious about how quickly the joke would wear thin. It worked surprisingly well and a lot more coherently than I thought it would. There are some fun illustrations too.
It made me want to watch the brilliant BBC adaptation from the 1990s again. But I'm also looking forward to the film adaptation of this version that's currently in the pipeline.

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Athene1710 said on Jan 18, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Brilliant. How to take a 200 years old novel of manners and make it into a romantic comedy with zombies, borrowing the tagline from "Shaun of the Dead".
Rather suprisingly, brain-chewing monsters (integral part of the british landscape, as everybody knows), gore (often uncalled for, yay!), sexual d ... (continue)

Brilliant. How to take a 200 years old novel of manners and make it into a romantic comedy with zombies, borrowing the tagline from "Shaun of the Dead".
Rather suprisingly, brain-chewing monsters (integral part of the british landscape, as everybody knows), gore (often uncalled for, yay!), sexual double-entendres (lift your antennas) fit perfectly into this classic. They actually improve it, so that you wish Jane Austen herself had thought of this - sparing far too many yawns to generations of innocent students.
I would say the new version is not only more fun than the original, but it even makes more sense!
Many of the rather nonsensical (to my eyes) behaviours, induced by weird social rules, are replaced by more logical and pragmatic reactions* - with the same developments and end results, obviously, but not leaving the reader with the feeling of having been tricked by the author and all this social-status rubbish.
*Spoiler ahead. Darcy's behaviour in the original novel puzzles me, it doesn't feel quite right. But what if he suspected Jane was stricken by the zombie plague? Indeed, that IS a valid reason to talk your friend out of marriage. Zombies = win.

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leo said on Jan 6, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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I really enjoyed this funny version with zombies and warriors and with a new Lizzie.
The boik is only for fans of Jane Austen book that will like to read her words with some modification that make you laugh out loud...

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Martyscoop said on Sep 24, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

"It is a truth universally ackowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains", and so begins this strange mash-up of an English literature classic and a horror story involving zombies stumbling across the English countryside. As an experiment the title was more intere ... (continue)

"It is a truth universally ackowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains", and so begins this strange mash-up of an English literature classic and a horror story involving zombies stumbling across the English countryside. As an experiment the title was more interesting than the book turned out to be. I decided to read this book because I saw someone else reading it and it aroused my curiosity so when I found it for free I picked it up. I remember liking "Pride and Prejudice" when I read it probably 15 years ago so was curious what zombies would add to the mix, unfortunately not much more than a distraction. The 5 Bennet girls are still out looking for love with English gentlemen and officers but will stop to slay a zombie horde every now and then or engage in Oreintal martial arts training in their dojo which makes it hard to keep the main story in focus. If you like classics or horror books I would recommend you read one or the other, not the two together.

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Stcin10 said on Dec 16, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback