Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It's a real book, and it's available at Amazon and Indigo. It's classic literature re-made into a beautiful zombie novel. You owe it to yourself to read this book! Plot summary below: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, sword fights, 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.
For someone like me, this novel is a pivotal breakthrough that turns my opinion of Jane Austen* novels on it's head (a disembodied zombie head). As I type this, I want to run to my nearest bookstore to buy this novel (and to the Canadian Tire to purchase a chainsaw). If zombies can suddenly appear in Nazi Germany, why can't they suddenly appear in the 19th Century England?
- Video blurb: http://www.viddler.com/explore/Mediabistro/videos/235/
- Time article: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1889075,00.html
- Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347
- Flocons: Zombies are good for your brain: Part 1
- Flocons: Zombies are good for your brain: Part 2
- Flocons: Zombies are good for your brain: Part 3
* Seriously, though, Pride and Prejudice is a pretty entertaining read because there is such an undercurrent of bitchiness through the whole book.
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* Seriously, though, Pride and Prejudice is a pretty entertaining read because there is such an undercurrent of bitchiness through the whole book.
You jerk! I wrote that! You haven't even read a Jane Austen novel, much less Pride and Prejudice.
I will soon. I ordered "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" from Indigo.ca. You'll notice that it's sold out from Amazon.ca. Apparently there's a lot of interest in this instant classic.
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