Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

[Mercutio]

Yes, you heard me. (http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,7847/title,Pride-and-Prejudice-and-Zombies/)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. 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. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen's classic novel to new legions of fans.

[Kthulhut Fhtagn]

Yes, you heard me. (http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,7847/title,Pride-and-Prejudice-and-Zombies/)

Zombies...what can't they improve? :D

[madurobob]

I heard about this on NPR's "Wait Wait don't tell Me" yesterday - hilarious! I am ordering this for my Austen-obsessed GF.

What could be a better valentine's gift than zombies?

[arthwollipot]

Hmf. Doesn't have ninjas. Can't be any good.

[madurobob]

That would be the follow-up: Sense and Ninjabilities

[fuelair]

Amazon says not out till May so it might not work for Valentine's Day!!

I've ordered mine - plan to show it to the Language Arts teachers at my school.

[fuelair]

That would be the follow-up: Sense and Ninjabilities
followed by Lady Susan and the Pirates.

[madurobob]

Hmf. Doesn't have ninjas. Can't be any good.
You will be happy to note that when I posted on their facebook page more or less what I posted about about "Sense and Nimjability", above, I almost immediately received the following response:
Dear Bob from Raleigh/Durham -- we're happy to report that Pride and Prejudice and Zombie HAS ninjas in it! We've got your back!

[Skeptic Guy]

I heard about this on NPR's "Wait Wait don't tell Me" yesterday - hilarious! I am ordering this for my Austen-obsessed GF.

What could be a better valentine's gift than zombies?


I heard it there, too. In fact, I thought it so silly that it wasn't going to be the right answer. I'm pleased that it was.

mmm...brainz.....

[Tanja]

I prefer Pride and Prejudice as Facebook status updates (http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/).

[Mercutio]

I prefer Pride and Prejudice as Facebook status updates (http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/).

Cool, but even there, I think it would read better with a few zombies.

[fuelair]

You will be happy to note that when I posted on their facebook page more or less what I posted about about "Sense and Nimjability", above, I almost immediately received the following response:
But, does it have Pirates. Zombies and Ninjas require Pirate participation.

[gumboot]

This may very well be the greatest book ever written. I suspect the author intentionally left out pirates because they were aware that the inclusion of pirates would push the book into a scale of sheer awesomeness too great for the universe to contain. With a certainty, the inclusion of pirates, zombies, ninjas, and 19th Century romance in the one work would generate a gigantic worm hole which would destroy the very fabric of reality.

[gumboot]

But wait there's more. (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5683554.ece)

Could this get any cooler? Yes. Yes it could.

Hollywood studios are bidding to turn a radical reworking of Austen’s most popular book, now called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a parody to be published in April, into a blockbuster movie.

...

“It quickly became obvious that Jane [Austen] had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel,” said Grahame-Smith, a television comedy writer. “Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet’s doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon? It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously.”

From then on it was easy to imagine Bennet and her four sisters as zombie slayers, trained since childhood in the deadly arts of Chinese kung fu, and Fitzwilliam Darcy as a promoter of the socially superior ninja skills of Japan. Together they stand bonnet to epaulette against a plague of cannibalis-tic interlopers from the accursed city of London.

This could possibly be the greatest film of all time. Seriously. A critically acclaimed zombie/ninja film? What do you think?

[arthwollipot]

Okay, so it has zombies and ninjas. Where are the giant robots??

[ImaginalDisc]

Mmm. . .no. Still won't touch a Austen novel voluntarily, even with the addition of zombies. This is tripe zombies can't fix.

[sphenisc]

This could possibly be the greatest film of all time. Seriously. A critically acclaimed zombie/ninja film? What do you think?

I'll watch it if Samuel L. Jackson plays Elizabeth.

[madurobob]

I'll watch it if Samuel L. Jackson plays Elizabeth.

That's Miss Elizabeth to you, sir (or Madam).

"I've had it with these mother *********** zombies in this mother *********** manor house!"

Oh man, Zombies, Ninjas... I can't wait for the porn version so there will be some actual sex to go along with all that chaste Austen "romance".

[sts60]

Okay, so it has zombies and ninjas. Where are the giant robots??
"Bless you, Mr. Babbage! My steam-powered automatons lacked only a means of self-direction - your mechanical calculating engine is the very thing I need to dispatch them against the rampaging undead!"

[fuelair]

"Bless you, Mr. Babbage! My steam-powered automatons lacked only a means of self-direction - your mechanical calculating engine is the very thing I need to dispatch them against the rampaging undead!"
Oh, yes, that must be used somewhere!!!!:D:D:D

[Skeptic Guy]

Okay, so it has zombies and ninjas. Where are the giant robots??

http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:eTXmjqV6jyS05M:http://bp1.blogger.com/_WRw-YiMTebU/R_GGst7gajI/AAAAAAAAAkM/3_le8jsBo4U/s400/Johnny%2BSokko%2BFlying%2BRobot.jpg (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp1.blogger.com/_WRw-YiMTebU/R_GGst7gajI/AAAAAAAAAkM/3_le8jsBo4U/s400/Johnny%2BSokko%2BFlying%2BRobot.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sflare.com/archives/johnny-sokko-and-his-flying-robot/&usg=__O19dO77p3e_plxqnt7FY9RUX-nc=&h=373&w=270&sz=34&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=eTXmjqV6jyS05M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJohnny%2BSoko%2Band%2Bhis%2Bflying%2B robot%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7ADBF_en%26sa%3DN)

You're not a part of high society unless you have a flying robot with missles for fingers.

[TX50]

I'll watch it if Samuel L. Jackson plays Elizabeth.

I think he's already signed up for the blockbuster movie adaptation of
"The Diary of Samuel L. Pepys"

[sts60]

I think necromancy is very appropriate for this thread.

My dear wife, who heard me mention this book, surprised me with a copy the other day.
...Can Elizabeth 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.
I have not sunk my teeth too deeply into it yet, but am already infected with the notion that this may turn out to be the greatest work ever written in the English language. Even without (so far, anyway) steam-powered robots with Babbage engines for... braaaiiinnnnsssss.

[Foolmewunz]

It can only improve on the original. And if his writing's as good as his seminal work (he's the author of The Big Book of Porn - say no more), it's probably going to be hillarious.

I hope he makes a million bucks on it. What a really great idea.