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Apr 03, 2011

Madeline rated it:

I tried to resist. When everyone starting losing their shit over this book and pre-ordering it, I told myself that this was a literary bandwagon I wouldn't jump on. I read the reviews posted here, and saw that for the most part the consensus was that this book was grossly overrated. All the parts that Grahame-Smith wrote (and there aren't many) weren't very well done, the zombie device got old quickly, and the whole thing could have been much better.
It was with all this evidence in mind t More...

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Aug 28, 2011

Ceridwen rated it:

Most of the time, I prefer to think of the universe as cold, meaningless and without a greater consciousness that imbues our lives with meaning and guides us with an unseen hand. So you can bet your sweet butt that I sat up and took notice when the universe handed me two of my most favorite things, Jane Austen and zombies, together in the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. What? Have all my years of fruitless prayers been answered? There truly is a benign and smiling force who animates both More...

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Sep 02, 2011

Elizabeth rated it:

My mother (hi mom) has advised me to not speak unkindly of others in public. Usually, I ignore this sage advice (sorry mom) when it comes to goodreads reviews, but not today boys and girls. Today, I am going to listen to my mother and write nice things only about this book. Please note, there will be spoilers and not all of them are hidden.

How clever of Seth Grahame-Smith to make Pride and Prejudice more appealing to prepubescent boys. How smart of him to realize that Austen's only unt More...

24 comments like (49 people liked it)

Feb 17, 2009

Alana rated it:

Since I am known by my friends as a Jane Austen person, SEVENTEEN different people sent me the link to this publishing announcement. Even though the book won't be published for another two months, a friend managed to procure an advanced copy (aka Word doc of the finished product), and so I read it over the weekend.

That being said, it's rather unnecessary for anyone to read this novel in its entirety, even if it does sound amusing. The best plan is to read the first two or three cha More...

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Sep 08, 2010

Alfonso rated it:

This is the biggest case of false advertisement that I’ve seen since The Never Ending Story!!! They claim that in this book you’ll find some Ultra-Violent Zombie Mayhem… but they lie!!! They lie I say!!!! They only have a couple of scenes with some mild zombie violence and that’s it! the rest is a bunch of letters where some reference to some zombie violence happened somwhere is made… and that’s it! then there is a lot of talk about learning kung fu and shit! this book suck! And the worse of it More...

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Aug 14, 2009

bestiaries rated it:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of some sweet weaponry to defeat the hoards of zombie flesh eating natives"

BRRRAAAAIIIINNNS!

2 comments like (25 people liked it)

May 14, 2009

Alisa rated it:

Um...oh my gosh...what to say? A quarter of me thinks I should be outraged, the other three-quarters is insanely giggling at the very idea, and then there's the very small uncounted minority of me that is throwing her fist in the air and screaming "Finally! This is the best idea ever!"

And now that I've read it?

Well, actually, I still think it's pretty darn good idea. It was weird reading it though, because the "zombie mayhem" fit so well into the st More...

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Oct 18, 2010

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* rated it:

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. Never was this truth more plain than during the recent attacks at Netherfield Park, in which a household of eighteen was slaughtered and consumed by a horde of the living dead.

This book, very simply put, is Pride and Prejudice meets Dawn of the Dead. It’s the classic story, rewritten to include zombies, also known as “unmentionables” and “the sadly stricken.” I felt that the More...

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Jun 06, 2009

Sparring rated it:

this book is a beautiful fantasy, as if someone reached into my head, pulled out two of my dearest loves, and put them together in such a brilliantly captivating fashion as to make me giggle aloud quite inappropriately in public places where i happen to find myself reading.

any lover of jane austen or of zombies needs to get their hands on a copy of this.

and the illustrations? priceless.

5 comments like (27 people liked it)

Aug 22, 2009

SpatialH rated it:

"Oh! Mr Darcy gave me his hand!"

hehe.

... was going to give it four stars, 'cuz there could've been *way* more zombie mayhem central to the storyline, but, I added the fifth star for the book club questions in the back. v funny.

If you've never read P&P and really like zombies and ninjas this is a great way to get the story.

3 comments like (16 people liked it)

Mar 30, 2010

Marius rated it:

This is one of the few classics that lays bare the massive scourge of the undead that blighted so much of English life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It has been stated that Austen and Grahame-Smith's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the eighteenth century and are part of the transition to nineteenth-century realism, while retaining an exquisite treatment of period manners. This is especially the case in this work, where Mrs Bennet seeks advantageous ma More...

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Apr 01, 2009

Sara rated it:

The Pride and Prejudice we all know has been re-imagined. England is over run with brain lusting Zombies. Elizabeth and her sisters are trained and practiced in the deadly art of Zombie slaying. Elizabeth’s best friend has been stricken with the “strange plague”. And a true gentleman beheads the Zombies for his lady, so that she will not soil her dress.

Without offending die hard Jane Austen fans, maybe Pride and Prejudice should have always had a Zombie element. The Zombies co More...

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Apr 11, 2009

Jane rated it:

I think Jane Austen would approve!

At first I thought I was only going to read it as a joke, but I found it quite engrossing and amusing! Not ridiculous at all—well… maybe just a tad, but it works really well.

It modernizes Austen witticism—not an improvement in my opinion, but accurate in “translation” so that those who initially did not understand some of the sarcasm, backhanded insults, sly body language, hidden agendas, or quips in P&P will in this one. In a way I gues More...

3 comments like (13 people liked it)

Apr 09, 2009

Jeanette rated it:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

I picked this book up at a bookstore a few weeks ago and promptly began skimming through it and looking at the illustrations. What I read and saw I found very amusing and I was eager to jump into this book.
When I started reading I was laughing out loud a lot and thoroughly enjoying myself. I was all prepared to tell all those devout Janeites out there who were More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Liz rated it:

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: WHAT WENT WRONG?

Don't buy this book. I did, and I'm regretting my AU$24.95.

It's good as a gimmick, but, as cocky as I'm coming across here, I know I could have written one far better. The problem with P&P as it is originally is that it is a complete story in itself, and therefore to do anything truly interesting with it, you need to change a lot, not a little. Grahame-Smith had this mentality where he didn't actually change the storyline; More...

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Aug 18, 2010

Debbie rated it:

This book is an odd hybrid of Georgian/Regency romance and horror. I have to admit I was attracted to this book simply by virtue of the fact that it combined two of my favorite genres - Jane Austen and zombies. And the author does an admirable job of using actually passages from Pride and Prejudice in the narrative. However this novel just didn't do it for me. It didn't satisfy me. I knew there was a problem when I put it down for two days after reading the first few chapters. This book ju More...

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Jul 22, 2011

Amanda rated it:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

It’s Pride and Prejudice, with zombies. What more can I say?

This is a very funny book. A laugh out loud, constantly interrupt your husband’s homework to read bits and pieces to him sort of book. It has all sorts of different humor in it – parody, random absurdity, subtle irony, and (my least favorite) the sort of potty humor more commonly found in Southpark or Monty Pyt More...

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Feb 28, 2009

Joanna rated it:

Confession: Although I enjoyed Price and Prejudice, I'm not a hard-core Austen fan. And yet I've really been enjoying the recent Austen revival that has gripped pop culture. I first noticed it when Bridget Jones spent a lot of time being obsessed with Mr. Darcy (who can forget her interview with Colin Firth?). Then the Austen spin-off books began to appear: Austenland, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, Lost in Austen (a choose-your-own-adventure book!), Me and Mr. Darcy, Mr. Darcy's Diary. An More...

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Oct 30, 2009

Brad rated it:

Taking my cue from the emotional ratings of the goodreads star system (and I can only muster two stars for this book), I offer you a fully gut reaction to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

didn’t like it
1. The ninjafication of Lizzy and the Bennet sisters. It was completely idiotic. The book really should have been called Pride and Prejudice and Ninjas with Zombies to allow dumb ass Ultraviolence. Had Grahame-Smith simply employed the available military training of the Regency More...

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Mar 31, 2010

Jane rated it:

i really don't get the hype on this so far. it strikes me as gimmicky...and even more boring than the original (blasphemy, i know).

ugh thank CHRIST they finally finished reading this today on WRBH. BORINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. bet seth grahame smith is laughing his uncreative ass all the way to the bank, though.

8 comments like (9 people liked it)

Apr 02, 2009

Angela rated it:

There's an old Calvin and Hobbes comic strip in which Calvin, like he is wont to do, goes off on a particularly wild flight of fancy about T-rexes flying F-14s and bombing his school. The joke of the strip is Calvin shrieking happily "THIS IS SO AWESOME!" while Hobbes sighs "THIS IS SO STUPID".

That is pretty much the exact right description for this book. It is sublimely silly, capable of being so over the top that you cannot help but laughingly go along with it, More...

4 comments like (16 people liked it)

Apr 14, 2009

Aimee rated it:

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Apr 17, 2010

Kristine rated it:

"One last thing before I go...I heard about a book called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay...who gave that guy the copyright to Jane Austen's book? I mean, seriously? THAT's what you're going to do with a classic like P&P? Write brain-hungry zombies into it? THAT is an atrocity if I have ever heard of one!"

This is a direct quote from my blog when I first heard about this book. I mean, I was angry and insulted. The disres More...

3 comments like (4 people liked it)

Apr 13, 2009

adventurat rated it:

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Apr 14, 2009

Melissa rated it:

The title of this book describes it perfectly - it is just that, the beloved classic Pride and Prejudice, with zombies thrown in to, presumably, liven up the story.

The good thing is that the basis of the book is Pride and Prejudice... verbatim. I believe some cuts were made but most of the book is Austen's work. What Seth Grahame-Smith has added is a lot of references on the periphery to the great war England is waging against the walking dead; their propensity for death, destructio More...

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Jan 30, 2009

Manny marked it as to-read

Who would have thought that Shaun of the Dead would already have spawned a whole new genre? Even if it doesn't exist, sounds like a great book!

4 comments like (4 people liked it)

May 15, 2010

chucklesthescot rated it:

The Bennet girls are highly trained zombie killers who are trying to keep the countryside safe from the monsters who are causing chaos everywhere but their mother is still obsessed with having them all married. Amid the parties and the slaughter,the girls discover love, betrayal, prejudice and a lot of monster decapitation...
This was good fun to read. The main story of the original book is there but the added zombie humour and Elizabeth's love of violence are very entertaining! I particu More...

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Apr 09, 2009

Cara rated it:

I had high hopes for this book, being both a Pride and Prejudice fan, as well as a horror junkie.

I honestly wouldn't have gotten through it if it weren't for the fact that I love the original Pride and Prejudice. Reading P&P&Zombies is like reading the original, just with a few mentions of zombies and the occasional fight scene. Which is fine, but honestly, this book could have been so much better.

For one thing, I don't really see much of a point in writing a book that More...

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Jul 07, 2009

Carrie rated it:

I was under the impression that this would by and large be Pride and Prejudice intact with the simple insertion of zombies in some places. Rather, it is very nearly an entire rewrite of the original, and not an improvement upon it. Grahame-Smith takes it upon himself to explain and over explain the characters and their emotions and actions, rather than letting Austen's original writing stand for itself, as it has done quite successfully previously. The idea is clever, the execution mediocre at b More...

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Apr 18, 2009

Alfonso rated it:

This book was hilarious and I agree with Jane that Jane Austen would of liked the book. It is pretty much the entire book with a mix of Zombies. The language was modernized and straight to the point. I was laughing out loud a few times in the break room at work. Elizabeth was an ass kicking girl that could behead you in an instant. I loved what happens when she meets Lady Catherine. I think this book magnified the strength of Austen's characters in Pride & Prejudice. Lydia and Mrs Bennet are sti More...

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