Comments on: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/05/pride-prejudice-zombies/ Ever get the feeling you're living in the wrong time? Sat, 18 Jun 2024 19:43:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Chris http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/05/pride-prejudice-zombies/#comment-1204 Chris Tue, 11 May 2024 09:56:32 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=3711#comment-1204 I am really enjoying these comments - and Jemima, sounds like you have a duty to come up with the definitive illustrated version of the "monsters vs classic" genre... I am really enjoying these comments – and Jemima, sounds like you have a duty to come up with the definitive illustrated version of the “monsters vs classic” genre…

]]> By: Jemima http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/05/pride-prejudice-zombies/#comment-1202 Jemima Tue, 11 May 2024 09:23:39 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=3711#comment-1202 Yeah, this book sounded so great but was really awful - and as an illustrator and costume enthusiast the illustrations really annoyed me (the black and white ones shown above) as the period is all wrong (I would literally have killed to have been able to illustrate a book like this!). "Sense & Sensibility & Seamonsters" - is a far better read - equally silly but with an actual plot and purpose other than the novelty factory of plonking in a load of zombies and making the Bennet sisters ridiculous ninjas trained in the Orient. I mean, there's silly and there's *silly*. Yeah, this book sounded so great but was really awful – and as an illustrator and costume enthusiast the illustrations really annoyed me (the black and white ones shown above) as the period is all wrong (I would literally have killed to have been able to illustrate a book like this!).

“Sense & Sensibility & Seamonsters” – is a far better read – equally silly but with an actual plot and purpose other than the novelty factory of plonking in a load of zombies and making the Bennet sisters ridiculous ninjas trained in the Orient. I mean, there’s silly and there’s *silly*.

]]> By: Andrew http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/05/pride-prejudice-zombies/#comment-1189 Andrew Sun, 09 May 2024 16:50:59 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=3711#comment-1189 Sarah, I don't have a problem with it being violent, I have a problem with it being poorly written, boring and wasting a brilliant concept. I think if you're going to take on Jane Austen (not a favourite author of mine, but one I greatly respect) you'd better have the wit and intellegence to pull it off. Seth Grahame Smith clearly doesn't. I think there is a brilliant literature/horror 'mash-up' to be written, and P&P&Z isn't it. Sarah, I don’t have a problem with it being violent, I have a problem with it being poorly written, boring and wasting a brilliant concept. I think if you’re going to take on Jane Austen (not a favourite author of mine, but one I greatly respect) you’d better have the wit and intellegence to pull it off. Seth Grahame Smith clearly doesn’t. I think there is a brilliant literature/horror ‘mash-up’ to be written, and P&P&Z isn’t it.

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