Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars
So I had heard great things about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - that the added flair of killing Satan’s spawn spiced up this rather dull and coma-inducing classic. And while the thought of taking classic literature and adding zombies makes me laugh out loud, the book itself didn’t.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved the zombie killing parts. Blood and guts and partially eaten household staff - that’s great stuff. But please, God, don’t make me read any more about these pathetic people with their constant blathering and pathetically empty lives!

The simple fact is that I cannot read Jane Austen, whatever the window dressing. Set it in space with killer aliens, add in shoguns and samurai, have everyone run around completely naked - it still wouldn’t matter. The only way to make this pile of rubbish in teresting to me would be to kill off all the main characters in the first twenty pages and then get on with something worth reading.

I know, I know. My girlfriend loves the original version of this book, as does nearly every other woman I’ve talked to. If I were in high school and forced to read Pride and Prejudice, I would credit the Zombie version author with at least making the task possible. But even after forcing myself through 150 pages I just couldn’t bring myself to keep going. I’m afraid that this classic, with or without zombies, will remain on my “never finished” shelf forever.

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