Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (TSS)

[fashion_piranha]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Amazon.com Summary of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:
In a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George III's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters.

Comments

[saru_kage]

Oh awesome, I was really hoping this was going to be good.

As for revised classics, I'm thinking Moby Dick vs. Cthulhu, or maybe Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls vs. an army of invading aliens.

[k00kaburra]

You are officially appointed to start working on Moby Dick v. Cthulhu. Like NOW. :D

[saru_kage]

Oh man, you wouldn't happen to know anyone willing to cover my rent for the next two or three years while I do the research to pull that off, would you?

Actually that does kind of sound like fun, but, jeez, talk about a monumental undertaking...

[k00kaburra]

I wonder how long it took this guy to zombify Jane Austen.

It does seem a pity that rent will always get in the way of Captain Ahab's encounter with The Old Ones.

[saru_kage]

Actually, now that I think about it, Moby Dick is probably well known enough that you could knock up a short story focusing on the confrontation with the White Whale (Cthulhu), and just sort of allude to the rest of the novel. That would only take an online Lovecraft archive, Sparknotes, and reading a few chapters of the original novel to get the feel and syntax of Ishmael's narration right.

I think I might actually try to write that, because now you've got me curious to find out what happens when the Pequod sails to S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude l23°43'.