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Originally Posted by Daithi
I bet this guy is doing pretty well. Quite a few people bought his Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Personally I loved the cover, although I haven't bought the book.
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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
I bought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was the first of these, but haven't read it yet. I couldn't resist - I loved the cover, and I love Pride and Prejudice. I wouldn't buy the others though, just one willl be enough I think.
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Originally Posted by omk3
Okay people, if you keep talking about Marlowe and mashups, someone will hear it and think it's a good idea, and we don't want that, do we?
It's maybe the first and last time in my life I'm thankful for the ridiculous length of copyright - he's still NOT public domain in most places, right? So they can't touch him yet. We can only hope the fad will have disappeared by then.
I actually thought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a good idea (in a funny way), but that was before all those other mashups started shouting for attention too. Haven't read it yet, and I'm not sure if I ever will, but though it seemed as a maybe cool idea for once, it's just ridiculous to be repeated with any classic known to man.
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Originally Posted by Sheepless
Different author: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was written by Seth Grahame-Smith (and Jane Austen, of course). That does indeed have a great cover, and let's be honest, the basic gag is pretty funny. The problem, of course, is that it takes more than a single gag to carry a novel. The end result is a mix of Austen and horror which is neither as good as real Austen, nor as good as real horror, and humour stretched way too thin. It ended up on my "maybe I'll finish it sometime" pile.
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For all who bought
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith but haven't yet read it, I have good news.
I have even better news for all those who haven't bought it but are curious!
I bought the book and read it so you don't have to! I read it so that you can save your print processing neurons for the original Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin and no one but Jane Austin. Trust me; the original is better.
The addition of the undead to the mix does nothing to improve Ms. Austin's story, though as I said in an earlier thread, the scene where Mr. Darcy first proposes marriage to Elizabeth and is promptly kung-fu kicked into the fireplace is amusing.