Why Is Everyone Picking On Jane Austen Today?

 

 

Ok, first it was Pride and Predator.  Now it's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies???

 

What's with everyone taking classic Jane Austen novels (specifically Pride and Prejudice) and making monster stories out of them?  What's next?  The Pride and Prejudice of Count Dracula?  Mr. Darcy Meets Frankenstein?  Where will it all end?  I must say though that I absolutely love the short but sweet discription of the book on Amazon.

 

Product Description
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action.

 

That may possibly be the greatest single-sentence literary description ever written.  The original book, but now filled with "all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action."  Simple, straight to the point, and enough to make me want to be reading the book right now.  But that's not it.  Believe it or not, it gets better.  Just who is this new author that has dared to take Ms. Austen's classic work and add in his own zombie awesomeness into the story?

 

About the Author
JANE AUSTEN is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature. SETH GRAHAME-SMITH is the author of How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn. He lives in Los Angeles.

 

Yes, that's right.  The author of the new "bone crunching zombie action" content is the same guy who wrote The Big Book of Porn.  Wow.  If this wasn't already a "must read" on your list then it should be now. 

 

I'll be honest though.  I hope this book does well.  I'm all for adding zombies to all sorts of classic literature.  Zombies just make everything better, don't you agree?  Here's a few of my ideas for some more great pieces of literature that could only be made better with the inclusion of the undead (I can think of more, trust me):

 

• The Counte of Monte Cristo vs. The Undead Hordes


• Dante's Inferno and Zombie Holocaust


• To Kill a Mockingbird and Whole Lot of Zombies


• The Zombie in the Rye


• 1984:  The year the undead overthrew Big Brother


• The Grapes and the Zombies of Wrath


• The Bible:  Now With Zombies!


• A Farewell to Arms? Not With So Many Zombies Wandering Around


• Uncle Tom's Cabin Surrounded by the Living Dead


• Slaughterhouse Five (strangely enough, you don't need to change this title at all)


• Jane Eyre:  Queen of the Undead


• Alice In Zombie-land


• I Know Why The Caged Zombie Sings