Monday, April 20, 2009

Jane Austen meets Shaun of the Dead (sort of)??

So, a friend mentioned the existence of this book: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Um... say WTF? However, the reviews make it sound as if this meeting of English propriety and zombie mayhem may go hand-in-hand.


Now, I'm all for some good zombie madness, but I never thought to mix it with my tea & crumpets romance of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.

Well, the good news is I can download the sample pages to the Kindle and should I decide to purchase, it's cheaper via Kindle than getting the book.

So stay tuned, dear readers, and I will let you know if I deem it worthy of the $7.19 Amazon charges for the download. And then I can judge if Jane Austen is rolling in her grave - or reanimated in the guise of this Seth Grahame-Smith (which would explain from where in the hell this idea came).

As I'm re-reading Pride and Prejudice currently, it'll be interesting to read the original side by side with the modern monster retelling.
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