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• ISBN13: 9781594743344
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Jane Austen | | Paperback:
| 320 pages | | Publisher:
| Quirk Books | | Publication Date:
| April 04, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1594743347 | | Package Length:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 452 reviews |
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 it's ok, but there are better books with similar themesJul 25, 2010
This book was slightly entertaining, but I don't think the zombie elements were worked into the book that well. It seemed kind of slapdash, and the zombie text the author added was sometimes jarring and didn't flow smoothly with the original text. In some instances it seemed rushed, and not very well thought out. But it did have some entertaining bits, so for people who are into this sort of thing it might be worth reading. As far as this kind of mash-up book goes, I have to say I really liked a new one called Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too, by Emily Bronte & Ralph S. King. The mash-up aspect of this book is not so jarring, and the werewolf aspect is worked into the text with more subtlety. The text flows more smoothly, and leads up to an ending that is rather shocking, but very entertaining and well-written. I'd give this one a chance. Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too
Some funny moments, but mostly AustenJul 21, 2010
While it has some funny moments, like a hoard of zombies attacking a dinner party, it is still 90% Pride and Prejudice. If you like Austen, that's okay. If you find her stuff tedious, the zombie action may not be enough for you.
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 Where's the funny?Jul 09, 2010
At first, I barely made it past Chapter 2, but I very rarely CHOSE not to finish a book, so I thought I'd give it a chance and pushed on. Then I started skipping pages. Then chapters. Ugh - Boring! Seems like it should have been less `devoted' to the original text and just gone crazy with the characters in a whole new way instead. There are long stretches of reading where the new author seems to be rewriting the original story and yet it does not enhance the parody at all. It was like a rewrite but with odd lines thrown in about slaying unmentionables or ninja training (or juvenile double entendre jokes about balls). I'm a huge P&P fan, but I love parodies, so I was looking forward to laughing it up. Unfortunately, I didn't. And ultimately, I'm very sorry I purchased this book. If you're still interested, get it from the library or look for it at a used book sale, which is where mine is going ASAP.
 A good idea that fell flat on delieveryJul 08, 2010
I loved the premise of this book. I'm not one of those people who are Jane Austen purists, but I do find her writing to be charming. The idea of Pride and Prejudice being told with the addition of zombies sounded great to me. When zombies showed up at the first ball and the Bennett girls formed the Pentagram of Death and showed off their fighting skills, I was sure I was going to love the entire book. But then things seemed to get unnecessarily violent and the author just took the idea way too far. Elizabeth is invited to "spar" with Lady Catherine's ninjas, and apparently this author's definition of sparring is a fight to the death. When the fight is finished, Lizzy eats the heart of one of the ninjas. I'm not queasy at all about violence, but this just seemed completely pointless. I found myself skipping over many pages here and there just to get past totally useless scenes. Mr. Darcy renders Mr. Wickam lame and incontinent as punishment for living a life of vice. Then the author describes the smell of "pi**," which I believe to be a word that Ms. Austen would never have used in her writing. All in all, the creator(s) of this book seemed to fluctuate between wanting to retain Austen's charming voice and yet cram as much zombie violence in as possible. In my opinion, the effort simply felt forced and fell flat by the end of the book.
Not a Page-Turner MasterpieceJul 02, 2010
One has to give Seth Grahame-Smith credit for making a whole pile of money for himself out of a concept that originated as a one-liner gag from a "Friends" episode in the 1990's. (Rachel said cyborgs instead of zombies, but is that really such a big difference?) On the merits of the book itself, it is not the page-turner that the original Austen masterpiece is. The first third of the book reads much like a literature project of an underachieving high school student. Eventually Grahame-Smith does find his stride and gives us some twists and turns from the storyline that are genuinely unexpected. Of course any novel that mentions zombies in it will have some violence, but such passages in this book intended to be humorous sometimes end up going a little too far. When finished with the book, one has to wonder if Grahame-Smith might not be something of a woman hater. More importantly, would one find any humor in this book at all if they are not familiar with the original work? Probably not.
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