I actually had time during lunch to stop by B&N and read some of this today. Abso-freakin'-lutely hilarious! Seth Grahame-Smith is a genius when it come to interweaving the new 'ultraviolent zombie content' with the original text. Take these two first lines:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."
But that's just to get us started, in the pages that follow are reference upon reference to musket cleaning, dagger sharpening, the warrior code (as when Elizabeth, marginally insulted by the aloof Mr. Darcy, reaches for the dagger under her dress and follows him with intent to open his throat) and ballrooms suddenly aflutter with the calamity of party crashing unmentionables who promptly seized and feasted upon those guests unlucky enough to be too near the windows. And after said party the original text reads:
"The evening altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family. Mrs. Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Netherfield party. Mr. Bingley had danced with her twice..."
Undaunted by the enormity of the balancing act he must perform, Grahame-Smith simply adds to the beginning, "Other than the dreadful attack," Masterful!
(Added bonus: I hear that later on in the book there are ninjas!)
You must read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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I'll have to check this out!
Zombies aren't really my thing. For one, they're dreadful conversationalists -- but, then, so am I.
I'm not too keen on the brains-as-appetizers diet, either. But, then, some people eat crickets. As the old saying goes, one man's cricket is another man's brain, or something like that.
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