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Loading... Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with… (edition 2009)by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
Work detailsPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
a very interesting twist to a classic literature piece  ninadangelo | May 12, 2013 |  Good for a giggle if you're an Austen fan, and an easy enough read when you're not looking for too much brain stress. It is exactly what it sounds like. Not much more to say than that, really! (  ) heterocephalusglaber | Apr 26, 2013 | The Misses Bennet, highly trained martial warriors helping defend Hertfordshire from attacks by manky unspeakables, are distracted by eligible men: Messrs. Bingley, Darcy, and Wickham. The incongruity of Miss Austen's young ladies dealing with zombie attacks is humorous enough and would make a great comedy sketch. But it really isn't sustainable for the length of a whole book. (  ) Robertgreaves | Apr 22, 2013 | May 2009: This is not your typical Austen. It isn't flawless, but it's so funny...laugh out loud funny. It bridges the gap between Austen and zombies quite beautifully. BTW...I love that in the end Lady Catherine de Bourgh gets her butt kicked...I always wanted that to happen! April 2009: So this is what it means to be in the public domain... How can I NOT read this book?! I'm really interested to see how the zombie bits are added in the story. (  ) melissarochelle | Apr 13, 2013 | I can summarize this book (or at least the part I read - about 15%) in one word: B-O-R-I-N-G. I was a fan of Jane Austin as a teenager and I was expecting that I will like this book also when I started reading it. First couple of chapters where interesting. I laughed how [a:Seth Grahame-Smith|169377|Seth Grahame-Smith|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1251331015p2/169377.jpg] very expertly exchanged some of the original dialog and descriptions with his own. And it was interesting to read and test myself if I will recognize which parts were replaced. But after a while it gets really... well boring. The book and plot is basically the same as original [b:Pride and Prejudice|1885|Pride and Prejudice|Jane Austen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320399351s/1885.jpg|3060926], the only difference is that everyone's favorite past-time is now dagger sharpening or musket oiling and whenever they travel somewhere they happen to meet a bunch of zombies and must fight them (description of fight scenes is almost non-existent - it's all summarized in a couple of sentences usually). I don't have any motivation to continue this book. I already know what will happen till the end, it feels like re-reading original book again... (  ) bookwormdreams | Apr 10, 2013 |
 The success of any pastiche lies in its ability to capture the tone of that original, and in this Grahame-Smith has succeeded admirably.  P&P&Z has just too much Austen and not enough zombies. I found myself skimming, skipping larger and larger chunks of text to get to the zombie sequences, desperate to escape the claustrophobic drawing-room chatter of Austen's characters with a little beheading, disemboweling and derring-do. Has the adaptationIs a parody of
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A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton--and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.… (more)
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