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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
I enjoy witty zombie movies like Shaun of the Dead. So when zombies were added to one of my favorite witty novels, I thought I'd give it a go.
The best thing I can say about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is that it's very clever. Clever in how Grahame-Smith worked zombies into the plot. I must give him props for that because it was truly ingenious. His own writing blended well with Austen's, as much as it can when mentioning zombies, anyway. For this it was well worth the read.
Elizabeth Bennett and her sisters are well trained zombie killers, and proficient in martial arts. But where Lizzy took joy in the everyday absurd, "a connoisseur of human folly," her joy is replaced in this version with blood lust and killing the undead. For me, this takes away from part of the book, the "prejudice" part. Lizzy doesn't seem as stubbornly prejudiced and decided in this book. She seems more to want to slay anything that irks her slightly. So her gradual and long path to enlightenment on who Mr. Darcy and Wickham are is not as ground shaking and life changing.
However, there are several moments that make you smile and laugh, especially where it concerns Lady Catherine de Bourgh as a master of her own herd of ninjas.
The best thing I can say about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is that it's very clever. Clever in how Grahame-Smith worked zombies into the plot. I must give him props for that because it was truly ingenious. His own writing blended well with Austen's, as much as it can when mentioning zombies, anyway. For this it was well worth the read.
Elizabeth Bennett and her sisters are well trained zombie killers, and proficient in martial arts. But where Lizzy took joy in the everyday absurd, "a connoisseur of human folly," her joy is replaced in this version with blood lust and killing the undead. For me, this takes away from part of the book, the "prejudice" part. Lizzy doesn't seem as stubbornly prejudiced and decided in this book. She seems more to want to slay anything that irks her slightly. So her gradual and long path to enlightenment on who Mr. Darcy and Wickham are is not as ground shaking and life changing.
However, there are several moments that make you smile and laugh, especially where it concerns Lady Catherine de Bourgh as a master of her own herd of ninjas.