Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Registered by geishabird of Toronto, Ontario Canada on 2/5/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by geishabird from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Friday, February 5, 2010
'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.' So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.

Now, I love Pride & Prejudice, but I also love a good parody. This book, however, just isn't smart enough to pull it off. It's a fun concept, but the joke starts to wear thin at about the halfway point and the rest of the book drags as Grahame-Smith's material becomes repetitive. There are a few good ideas, but the new material simply isn't clever enough to make it as funny as it really could - and should - have been. Gotta love that title, though!

Journal Entry 2 by geishabird at phone booth (see release notes for details) in Toronto, Ontario Canada on Saturday, February 6, 2010

Released 14 yrs ago (2/6/2010 UTC) at phone booth (see release notes for details) in Toronto, Ontario Canada

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Released as part of the "Chills & Spills" challenge - February is zombie month! Happy eating - er, reading...

Journal Entry 3 by Scully from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Monday, February 8, 2010
Will read.

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