
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
This is a book that straightforwardly declares its content from the presentation of both cover and title. With the bloodied portrait and the "and zombies" appendage, what you get here is precisely what appearances promise: no more and no less. This is Jane Austen's manuscript, almost in its entirety, with sporadic scenes of zombies inserted.
The result is an amusing gimmick, but nothing that is astoundingly witty or which sheds new light on familiar characters or situations as most parodies are wont to do. In fact, Grahame-Smith's effort is probably best used as a way of getting reluctant readers interested in the classics, considering it breaks up all the "talky stuff" with scenes of violence and gore. I suppose it's like a literary, bloodthirsty version of "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine goes down." I bought a copy for a friend who wa... Read More