Bookspotting: In which NOTHING is Sacred any longer...

[mythosidhe]

Seth Grahame-Smith, erstwhile defiler of literary classics co-author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has signed up for a two-book deal with publisher Hachette Book Group, the first installment of which is to be...wait for it, now...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter...Gentle Readers, I know not what to say. Honestly, at this time I cannot form

Comments

[padawansguide]

LOL.

I don't know what to say about poor Honest Abe either.

I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one horrified by the costumes in P&P&Z though. Actually, I very much thought the illustrations were inspired by the Keira Knightley movie, particularly this outfit:
http://costumersguide.com/pride_prejudice/2005brownjumper.html

[mythosidhe]

Ah, yes, Brontë!Lizzy ! You know, as much as I love that film (despite it's many flaws), I haven't watched it in ages, so the similarity didn't jump out at me while I was reading P&P&Z, but I believe you may be right! The new illustrations, on the other hand, look very BBC :p

[padawansguide]

I don't know why, but it really jumped out at me! I've only see the movie once and though there were piece of it I liked, there was much I didn't. I quite liked Jane for one thing. ;-) The new ones do look very BBC!

[hooveraardvark]

yes, and they purposefully set that version a few years earlier than it is usually set, right? i seem to recall reading that a while ago.

[mythosidhe]

Yes, Joe Wright (the director) said that he preferred the aesthetic of the 1790s to the 1810s, and he felt that since Austen set the original 'First Impressions' draft of the novel in that period, it was still authentic to her work to set it back a few decades. It's funny, these days so many Austen fans are dead set on films etc. being accurate to the Regency period, but while Jane was alive she constantly updated her novels to keep them current--she always wanted them to feel like that were written 'now'. In that respect I guess she really would have loved Bridget Jones, etc!