Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ☑️ Recommended Book
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So I saw this book in the book store a few months ago, picked it up, mainly because the cover caught my eye, read the back and then the first page, laughed and then put it back down. Funny concept, but I wasn’t paying almost 20 dollars for it. Funny though, I couldn’t stop thinking about it! I really liked the idea and was curious. So a few weeks ago I picked it up, paid the 20 and started reading. (I read two, sometimes three, books at a time so it takes me a while to get through one book.)
The beginning was a little boring…very close to the actual Pride and Prejudice written solely by Jane Austen. I put it down a few times because of how slow moving it was…if I wanted to read P & P again I would. But luckily things started to pick up, and they started to get funny, really funny. There were a few times that I laughed out loud, at very quiet, inappropriate moments in certain locations and startled the people around me. The cover got me a lot of attention as well. Strangers were asking about the book and what it was about. Of course, everyone has at least heard of Pride and Prejudice right? So what’s this about zombies? It was kind of uncomfortable for me…I’m not a very social person.
Anyway, Grahame-Smith does a great job building his own world of zombies into the classic tale of love, discrimination, misunderstanding and prejudice. In fact, there are some scenes which are improved by his addition of zombies and the slaying of them. It certainly gives the militia something more respectable to do! The violence is hilarious and the description very vivid. Some characters die that probably should die and some characters are beaten that definitely need to be beaten. Elizabeth is strong and opinionated, trained as a warrior by the Chinese while Darcy is her equal in fighting skill; they of course, end up being the perfect match.
The wording is identical to the original at times while at other times Grahame-Smith throws in a phrase that is totally inappropriate and amusing…like the musket ball transaction between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth…one of those laugh out loud moments when I was reading that scene, let me tell you!
Anyway, it was a funny novel, but it does take some patience…the language is consistent with a Victorian classic. Kudos to Grahame-Smith for the effort it must have taken to get the wording so accurate, the terminology of Japanese and Chinese fighting style implanted so effectively and the inclusion of zombies so appropriately…well done!
ISBN-10 1594743347
ISBN-13 978-1594743344
Publisher: Quirk Books
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Release Date: April 4, 2009
320 pages
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