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|  | Authors: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
Publisher: Quirk Books
List Price: $12.95
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Seller: selene_books
Rating:  355 reviews
Sales Rank: 158
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Later Printing
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 1594743347
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781594743344
ASIN: 1594743347
Publication Date: April 4, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: ISBN 9781594743344. Minor shelf wear. New. (09-3)
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 Rated PG - The joke got old... November 3, 2009
Monica Higbee (Ashburn, VA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The idea of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies made me laugh. I even laughed at the beginning scenes of the book. However, the joke got old as the story went on.
Foul Language - Nope.
Sex - Two instances of sexual innuendo, that I remember.
Violence - Dispatching zombies. Not overly graphic. Other fight scenes involving human death.
 The dead dont speak...and this book killed me... October 30, 2009
Jeremiah F. Guile (Temecula Ca)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
So I'm a big Jane Austen fan... Big deal. Want to fight about it? I'm also a huge zombie fan so when I found this book in a local Target I started jumping up and down and waving it in the air as a praise to all things brain-devouringly beautiful. After I bought the book, drove home, took out the trash, vacuumed the house and worked on the sprinklers in the front yard I finally got to sit down and enjoy what seemed to be a life long fantasy when after an hour and 70 pages in, I was feeling robbed... This was Pride and Prejudice and those were zombies but it was all wrong.
I understand that the book was written as a bit of a comedy mash-up but it just felt like something was a little, well, missing. For one thing, where was the funny?? Once I got over the initial concept of a zombie outbreak in a Jane Austen book, I don't think I cracked a smile once. Now a zombie comedy that does not make you laugh just seems like a zombie novel. So I read on in the light of it being a Jane Austen book with zombies and this brought up the second problem. Where is the story??? For someone versed in Pride and Prejudice, it was easy for me to enjoy that aspect of the plot but there was not enough of it to enjoy it for that. There was also not enough of the zombies to enjoy it for a zombie novel, so where does that leave the plot but feeling disjointed and as though each scene was out of place within its own fictitious universe which is a sad statement considering you are reading on and on for 320 pages. Each scene feeling more disorganized and reminiscent of a bad DJ mash-up featuring Sublime's Santeria and Johnny Cash's Hurt...just doesn't work and either does this book.
In summery, everything that was suppose to make this book fun just helped to make it a waste of precious time that could have been spent doing so many other things that actually ARE fun and not just hyped and pretended to be fun. Ever spend days with something and all the while you pretend to yourself that you enjoy it, hoping that you fall for your own lie? Thats this book. You will spend hours talking yourself into liking it for the concept, but in the end walk away disenfranchised and bored, thinking of how cool it COULD have been.
I give the book 2 stars for trying a brave concept. Sad he couldn't pull it off...
I gotta fever.. October 26, 2009
J. Thompson (Tokyo, Japan)
- and the only thing that's gonna cure that fever... Is a zombie outbreak in the middle of a piece of literature I had previously found a bit tedious for my tastes...
While the zombie parts are good, the Jane Austen bits are still every bit of the snore-fest you would expect. Dont get me wrong, I know its great literature, but I just cant get into the "Mr. so-and-so said this about who?! oh my goodness!! Perhaps we shall see him tonight at the ball and this kerfuffle can be straightened out once and for all". I recognize that ladies love to gossip, and ladies love to read about ladies who gossip, so at least this book was somewhat readable. However to me it was a bit like mixing chocolate with broccoli... Can't I just have the chocolate? This book still looks cool sitting on my bookshelf though. And unlike my other snobby friends who like to collect great literature and sit it on their shelves for others to notice, at least mine have spine creases.
Perhaps the powers that be could turn an undead eye towards spicing up The Bible?
Forgive the non-sensical writing.. I've got swine flu and the meds make me loopy.
 So much potential. So little delivered. October 20, 2009
Siboyan (Nothern Virginia)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
SPOILER ALERT! I should have loved this book. I am a huge fan of Jane Austen and zombie movies. But what was a concept full of potential, yielded a very unimaginative book. Instead of retelling the story in an alternate universe where a 55-year zombie plague is afflicting England, it is merely Pride and Prejudice with zombies thrown in every 20 to 30 pages to remind us that this is supposed to be different. The characters lives are only superficially changed and their lives are virtually unaffected in any meaningful way. I kept waiting for the plague to become an actual plot point, but I was only disappointed. In the end, I wished I spent my time reading the original so that I could enjoy the now-iconic scenes untruncated and in their full glory. So my recommendation is that you do just that. And if you really want zombies, just add them in the background occasionally in your imagination, and you will do just as well.
Keep your red pen handy October 20, 2009
biogeek
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is amusing. If you read everything P&P and can see the not-so-serious side of things then you will probably enjoy this for what it is.
Cons: If this book had a copy editor then they should be fired. There are numerous grammatical errors (wrong words or word usage). My favorite is when he mentions a "coy pond." Personally, I've never seen a pond play hard to get! There are also some factual errors (Chinese, not Japanese women used to bind their feet). One last thing, either Elizabeth is an excellent zombie slayer or she isn't. You can't have it both ways.
Pros: One thing I do like about this book is he includes some thoughts that the characters most certainly would have had at various points. These make the progression of Lizzie and Darcy from not liking to liking each other much more understandable.
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