Huzzah! It's my first book review since we moved!The description on the back of this book says that "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read." I daresay that is a very true statement (daresay. Now I'M talking like the book)! Basically, Seth Grahame-Smith took Jane Austen's famous novel and added parts to it consisting of zombies and the like, actually making it hilarious and fun to read. I love the way the original old-fashioned (and slightly hard to understand) writing was intermingled with words such as "vomit", "ninja", and "brains". Sometimes, it was painfully obvious where Austen's writing ended and Grahame-Smith's started. Technically, this isn't his fault, because writers are supposed to have their own style and blah blah blah. Despite the characters lacking as much pizazz as the added writing, PaPaZ makes a rollicking read for anyone in pursuit of well-tweaked literature.
As a strange plague of zombies, or the "unmentionables", arrives in England, every man, woman, and child must learn how to defend themselves, whether by sword, karate, or musket. One family with five daughters, the Bennets, have prided themselves on their combined training and charming personality, especially their second daughter, Elizabeth.
In other words, they're crazy good.
The Bennet girls have attracted many young men as husbands, but there has never been one so skilled in fighting, odd in personality, and dashing in general as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Who just happened to maybe fall in love with Elizabeth. As jealousy attacks, relationships flare, and zombies rage, will the Bennets be able to stick it out to the end?
Related links:
• Wikipedia article on Pride and Prejudice
Wikipedia is a lovely place, no?
cool book. Pride and Prejudice isn't exactly all that cool. (boring is the word that comes to mind) but what that book definitely needed was a good taste of zombies. Or something cool like that.
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