Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(category: horror)by
Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
published by Quirk Books in 2009Nick read a new book, in January 2010
Nick's rating: 7 out of 10
Nick's opinion:
What a ripper! Pride & Prejudice with -- you guessed it! -- added zombies! I love P&P and have read it several times. This "extended" version is almost as good. It claims to be P&P word for word, with zombies added and just enough changes to make sense. The plot certainly matches my own memory of the original. Though that is also a weakness in the new book... The zombies do not at all add to the plot. For a short while I hoped that there would be a "zombie solution" but no. This is simply P&P with added zombies. The P&P plot is as enjoyable as ever. The zombie environment is written well, humorously tongue in cheek, a "realistic" background to the main story. But that's it: the zombies are just background -- or decorative -- material. I would really have liked to see some zombie story-line. Still, I guess that that's as pointless as wondering how the war went (what war was it?!) for the soldiers in the original P&P. Ah well. Zombies added, to encourage modern readers to read a classic novel. As good as the original, with more. Afterthoughts: Was P&P&Z easier to follow than P&P? Has there been some updating of ideas that are no longer common knowledge? If so... if it had been done without zombies... I would have complained. If there have been changes for a modern audience then -- strangely enough -- I am glad, because it gives extra life to P&P. But only because the zombies make it, in effect, a totally different book... What a strange reason to accept the modernisation of a classic!
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