Saturday, May 23, 2009

I'm looking forward to reading this book:

Mr. Alison picked it up at the library yesterday and it looks so awesome I had to share it with you! Now, I've never read pride and Prejudice, nor have I seen the movies (although I've read a lot of Brit Chick Lit, so I am well aware of Mr. Darcy and all that). I guess I always assumed that Jane Austen was too stuffy for me. So this is a way to read her actual text but get some zombies in as well! Score!

Here is the product description from amazon.com
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! 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, swordfights, 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.

So I haven't started it yet, but I am looking forward to it. I'll let you know what I think ;)

9 enjoyed the bouquet.:

Ryah said...

Mr. Alison, ha

I've been eyeing this book for a while, let me know how it is. It looks pretty cool. I think I read somewhere that he's doing another classic with a twist.

Kari said...

Yeah, I'm curious too. I have a love/hate relationship with zombies.

Erin said...

I think you should start calling him Mr. Alison full-time ;-)

This looks really interesting! Yes, let us know.

Erin said...

And I want to know more about Kari's love/hate relationship with zombies. Just when you think you know a person...

;-)

♦Z~Z♦ said...

Looks... interesting. XD

Kari said...

Ok, it's mostly hate. My first horror movie was "Return of the Living Dead." I love that movie and had no probs with zombies. In fact, I'd say I was pretty cool with zombs. Buddies even?

Then I saw "28 Days Later." IDK what it was about that movie that stuck with me but I had a nightmare and can't watch the movie anymore (we own it too).

Monkeys and zombies. Ew ew ew.

Peacey said...

The sad part: I've already known about this for like ever.

Kaitlyn said...

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read."
ooh, really? Yay! I saw this in a store just yesterday..

alison said...

I finished it! And I liked it. It was really funny. But when I was reading it, I wished I knew what the real storyline was and how he embellished it, I mean obviously the zombie parts were fabricated, but I can't tell if he substituted zombies for the plague or like war or something. So instead of reading the whole thing over again i am renting the colin firth version ;)