Really? Have they really taken Jane Austen's classic, Pride and Prejudice and transformed it into a zombie tale? Not that I'm not into contemporary literature, but must they destroy the classics by adding a dash of Night of The Living Dead to a beautiful romance novel?The perpetrator is Seth Grahame-Smith. An aspiring screenwriter in L.A., he has supposedly taken one class in English Literature...in his entire life. Probably all the more reason why he took this novel and transformed it into a blood fest.
In my opinion, Mr. Wickham, and Charles Bingley's scary sister, Miss Bingley, add enough horror to the book without there being a need to add walking, groaning corpses. But who am I to judge? Maybe slaughtering, grotesque monsters, and Lizzy Bennet fighting them off in a 19th century dress will add just the spice that Austen never included. Others seem to think it was brilliant addition.
According to Amazon's Editorial Reviews, it's "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."
In an article by Entertainment Weekly, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' contributing author, Grahame-Smith mentions, "it's almost as if, subconsciously, Jane Austen is laying out the perfect groundwork for an ultraviolent bone-crushing zombie massacre to take place." Really Mr. Grahame-Smith?
On a brighter note, his blog and political opinions are pretty fabulous.
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