Book Query

[lady_isabella]

Have any of you out there read Pride & Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith? I saw the book in a store recently, and like a bad traffic accident, it's one of those things that I want to pass by quickly, but I can't help slowing up and staring. I'm terribly curious to read this particular mash-up.

Comments

[erastes]

Haven't read it, but it definitely seems to have spawned a new bandwagon genre, classic fanfic horror, as there's MR Darcy, Vampyre, Emma with Werewolves, Sense and Sensibility with Sea Monsters....

[countessaleska]

I have seen the trailers, they alone are worth having.

This is the first trailer for the book you mention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzowFJTApfY

And their latest work, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. This trailer is of the highest production and acting quality and highly worth the moment to view it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jZVE5uF24Q

[indywind]

I think Rachel the Elder has, or else her boyfriend.

[anderyn]

It's quite fun, but the conceit does get boring after a while (particularly the vomit). I also had a bit of trouble with the world-building since there were many things that made no sense upon any reflection at all.

[muridae_x]

I've read it. It has its amusing moments, but it's pretty much a one joke conceit, and I found that it had more than worn out its welcome by the end of the book. I think it might have worked better if Grahame-Smith had written more of the book and Jane Austen less - it teeters on the brink of plagiarism throughout, because his job as author basically consists of abridging her book, using her dialogue and authorial narrative with slavish devotion, then shoehorning in his own jokes with a bit of word or phrase substitution from time to time. When he did it well, I was left wishing that he'd put more effort into it and done the job properly. When he did it badly, I was left wishing he'd left well alone

[countessaleska]

I love your Grommit icon!

[muridae_x]

Thank you!

*pets Gromit*

He really does provide an icon for every occasion.

[countessaleska]

I noted that your grommit icons and your other icons share the same style and typeface-- did you make them yourself?